9 monthsI really hope this goes somewhere.
Not because I have any sympathy for the shareholders, mind you, fuck absolutely everyone involved. But I think it would be very funny to make Apple prove in court that AI is such dogshit it would’ve hurt the product more to implement it than not.
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
The overpromising is criminal despite what the actual law says. Let the companies pushing AI beyond it‘s boundaries bleed.
- Phen@lemmy.eco.brEnglish9 months
Meanwhile in my company the leadership just thinks that we have a messaging problem after the new AI stuff we implemented made absolutely no difference in the sales numbers.
- magiccupcake@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
I mean you do have a messaging problem. Your leadership has received bad messaging about what “AI” can do!
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish9 months
If they are anything like the leadership at my company they have received plenty of information about what AI can do from that IT, but you see they went to this convention in Las Vegas and some self-styled “business guru” told them everything they wanted to hear.
- EON_GuG@lemm.eeEnglish9 months
The bad thing is that Apple would introduce Recall for all its devices in the future, just to keep its shareholders happy.
- disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Local Snapshots have been available on OSX and MacOS since 2011 as long as you use Time Machine to make backups.
- kayazere@feddit.nlEnglish9 months
There‘s also the FSEvents database on the root of every disk which is a database of all the file events/operations that happened on that disk.
Supposedly you can disable it, but I haven’t got it to work. For example if you download a sensitive file, do something with it, and delete it. You can see this in the FSEvents database.
This is already a recall type feature at the file system level.
- velanox@feddit.orgEnglish9 months
NTFS has that exact feature too, a log of file operations on the disk. They’ve had it long before Recall was a thing.
- EON_GuG@lemm.eeEnglish9 months
I’m referring to Microsoft’s AI Recall, but Apple should apply it to its MacOS or all its devices.
- ksh@lemm.eeEnglish9 months
Apple professional management have run the company down with their many foolish decisions. Feels similar to how Microsoft became worse annd worse after XP.
- Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
I’m pretty sure you can trace the management downturn of American companies back to a change in MBA curriculum.
You can see when they started getting hired after the shift. Where they were taught that as long as your department is doing well and has positive numbers, LITERALLY nothing else matters. The company could be crashing and burning around you, you might even be causing it, but as long as those numbers are going up, you’ll quickly get hired at another company. Because every single iota of their education is about pleasing investors who only care about money now, and not potential money in a few years.
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish9 months
They go on about long-term investment and then you find out that what they’re actually talking about is things that will start returning a profit in 6 months. Half a year is long-term to them.
If you have a long-term view and want to make quite a lot of money you probably couldn’t do better than shorting Apple stock. They never innovate anymore (every iPhone is literally the same as the previous years), and they spend huge amounts of money on failed projects (Vision Pro), meanwhile they continue not to fix ongoing serious issues (Safari).
- rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
After W2K I didn’t like XP all that much, it felt slower and was too “Chinese-looking” (how it could be said in my language in those years). Now I’m nostalgic over chromecore aesthetic and that look, silver Game Boy, silver PS2, silver SW Phantom Menace interiors. Or matte black as an alternative, too looking very cool. Or at least that “normal” matte white. But in UIs - XP felt a bit too much, tiring for my eyes. Still, XP with default blue theme and jump-to-lightspeed wallpaper is what home and nostalgie are for me.
- graff@lemm.eeEnglish9 months
Never heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don’t mind me asking?
- rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they’d say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in “Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy”. Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It’s rather that back then you’d sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.
Apple used rigged demos and made false claims about their own technology so outstanding that their own project managers were taken aback by how far behind the features actually were vs. what was pushed. There’s already informal documentaries on the massive internal disconnects within Apple that have lead to poor product testing and stagnation.
- J52@lemmy.nzEnglish9 months
Let’s face it the problem is mostly the people. If AI was as super duper as claimed to be it would be able to construct advertising that makes everyone go: 'Yeah, I have to have this, it’s useful, ethical, the bees knees really. ’
The little advertising that still makes it over my thresholds is bad to abominable and of that what registers for me has the opposite affect it intents - I go out of my way to avoid it.
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
All the shareholders of AI progressing companies should do this.
- oakey66@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
Instead of focusing on battery life, they focused on some dogshit hype product that no one uses and no body asked for.
Siri still struggles with toggling my lights with voice commands, after nearly 8 years of tearful screaming at my HomePod.
I want to see 1 Infinite Loop transformed into a giant toilet.
I think Apple is going to have to release Safari for Windows and Linux to use new users as guinea pigs.
I did use Safari for Windows back in the day. It was a product they indeed shipped.
- SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 months
Generally, Safari was kind of middling in function and design until around 2018, when it got more streamlined or something; at least, its apparent performance improved over the other browsers on macOS. It was novel on Windows but pretty limited and just, meh.
Edit: I forgot, the clean, minimalist, ad free reader view on the windows version was very nice to have. Long time ago!
It was fun! It worked well when compared with IE back in the day which isn’t saying much, but it was a sensible bedfellow with iTunes and all the Apple mobile support software that was common to run alongside for your iPod. I enjoyed using it as my main browser because it was aesthetically pleasing.
- rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish9 months
As a FreeBSD zealot, I really don’t see anything far from norm with Linux zealots. They are a bit conflict-seeking and ignorant, but that’s ok.
- 9 months
They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.
*A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*
