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How is this not the biggest deal in the PC world? I've long been looking for a reason to switch from Mac, but two things kept me in Apple's ecosystem:

1. M1 + iPhone integration (the half-assed hands-off feature)

2. Shitty UI+UX on Windows + Ads

At the same time, I have come to realize that our interaction with computers is going to get more and more natural thanks to large language models. If Windows Copilot doesn't get neutered just like Bing AI did, I'm seriously going to consider switching back to Windows.

I get that Apple has different priorities, but I can't justify their inaction in this area over the past several years.

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From the security point of view I will stay with macOS. Windows is a "telemetry" mess and the product is unfinished from the UX point of view.

I don't particularly fancy either, but to do some real work I'd stick to Linux and Windows. MacOS nowadays looks like a toy OS, and gets too much in the way.

I wonder how it feels like a toy OS. I just recently return to Apple after my initial experience with Apple II ;-) for general development I prefer Linux but greatly appreciate .NET framework and programming languages such as C# and F#.

I guess that's one way to get around the labyrinth that is the new and improved windows UI.

It will start off with pre-defined registry tweaks/powershell scripts, but it will continue expanding. My money is on less than 6 months before we hear about it deleting all of a users data or being tricked into ransomware.

I agree. This is game changing. I've spent 30 years doing the same kind of operations manually over and over in windows file manager, cursing every time that the machine should know what I'm doing by now..

Listen, neither of the two platforms are better or worse for general purpose use. I've had both and felt plenty comfortable with both and experienced issues on both like you will with any computer.

Be platform agnostic.

> How is this not the biggest deal in the PC world?

Because it's marketing hype BS?

If you're interested, we're building Co-pilot for Mac. https://embra.app

Looks neat, but I would only want a privacy preserving offline version of this.

Why should it be the biggest deal in the PC world? To me this sounds like clippy and other personal helpers all over again.

I'm a huge proponent for generative AI, and this seems very interesting - especially with support for plugins - but a lot of the use cases for this kind of thing (specifically OS level integration) is still very fuzzy for me.

I see value for less technically inclined users to be able to trigger actions they would be unable to find / adjust themselves - I'm very excited to be proven wrong though.

And yes shame on Apple for being so far behind in this.

Seriously?

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