Technology

Good thing I never have, not ever will have any iPhone or Apple product. Personally I hate this walled garden concept.

Never anything good comes out of a 'walled garden' historically.

For current example: https://vger.to/aussie.zone/post/38263078

The latest iOS update was just slop. If you're in Europe there are no tangible improvements since the slop isn't allowed here.

So, over the last couple or years, Samsung has been updating the OS of my Galaxy Smartphone repeatedly. With each iteration more and more AI features have appeared as new buttons with ambiguous icons.

Using AI features on my phone requires opening a Samsung account so it cat track my token use. This requires providing personal information, and making up a password I will remember since the Samsung account app isn't compatible with password managers (except Samsung's proprietary manager, which I do not use). I also anticipate Samsung will want a credit card number to quietly charge me as I use compute.

I haven't made a Samsung account.

And so all these buttons with weird icons are now productivity potholes, since tapping any of them accidentally switches me to the create a Samsung account page, interrupting my workflow.

Like tyranny, enshitification is more about incompetence than malevolence.

"John Ternus will be great for Apple because he's an engineer"

A society that refuses to mix ethics with STEM: hold my beer..

Seriously, being an engineer or working on or in something doesn't automatically make you the best leadership choice automatically. Ethics are kind of an important thing America continues to gloss over at an alarming rate.

If there is anything worse than getting into a pyramid scheme is getting late into a pyramid scheme

he not only he is pushing for a bad idea, he clearly missed the memo that Apple was mostly unaffected precisely because they had been slow to adopt AI

Keep in mind Apple has a poorly documented and mostly unknown daemon called knowledgeconstructiond that cannot be turned off and solely exists to profile you based on accessing every Apple apps data - ical, messages, mail, photos etc, which is astoundingly personal info especially considering a lot of Apple users dump everything into stock apps, as the “strength” of Apple has typically been consistency of the platform

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph

The person who wrote that article vibecoded an app that allows you to visualize the data captured: https://github.com/8rank/iKnow

It is basically all the gross shit that ad networks do. What does Apple do with this data, that has been aggregated since macos 13? Officially it’s probably to “enhance the user experience” but at a minimum it probably changes how Apple delivers ads to you. do they sell it? Who knows

"The customer is always right" has become "The customer will like it" with screen controls in cars, IOT jammed into everything, subscriptions, AI forced down our throats...

Sometimes I swear the job of CEO seems to be the easiest ever. Just follow whatever's trending now. Seems so easy: start your day, see all headlines say "AI", order a few people to put "AI" everywhere, sit back, relax and rack profits from investors who are just as brain dead.

Geezus how much more AI do we need? For the cost of it, we're not getting the great benefits we thought we were going to get. It's too environmentally harmful when it's run in concentrated places. There's also no reason to have these data centers. If PCs were invented today, we'd be renting PCs forever because this era isn't about innovation anymore. It's about trapping people in a rental world.

Given I have Apple “intelligence” turned off - I just couldn’t care less.

Being slow on LLMs is the one good decision apple is making.

Tim Cook was a good transitional douchebag CEO to soften people up before the full Gavin Belson experience.

There are things that the user wants, and there are things that are good for the user. The two are rarely the same.

This is neither.

'I want more AI in my life' said noone

Oh yeah, time for some iSlop

Apple has been speedrunning problems and bad decisions since Ternus took over: the iPhone duo, macos 27 being buggy as fuck and making it difficult to disable the siri ai bs, the new macbook having an OLED that flickers so slowly it gives you eyestrain, the apple tv going from $150 to $300

More proof that the biggest morons rise to the top of the capitalism rancid stew.

The stuff they just released is so bad. My 17 Pro used to open an app immediately when I asked Siri and now she churns for over 5 seconds sometime before opening things. Went from a time saving shortcut to an annoyance.

She can’t understand anything going on with my phone, she misunderstands me a lot more than before. Keeps requesting the same permissions over and over with no way to permanently grant them. Navigation is ridiculous she’ll navigate to a town in the next country before a name in my contacts. Having really loved iPhones since 2010 this will be my last one. I’m bound for grapheneos or something similar have already begun moving my data out of their cloud in anticipation.

Apple has been compromised for a long while now, they're building an excuse to dump it on. This is the future of all tech.

Are people hired to be CEOs because they are dooshbags or do people become dooshbags because they are CEOs?

Put it everywhere, just like Microsoft

Apple is following in Proton's footsteps.

As long as it can be shut off, I'm okay with Apple shoving this into the devices.

I like the option called "off".