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Dear Apple, AI is not missing piece in your puzzle

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> Oh yes, my bad, it uses custom designed Apple Silicon. So it should be safe. People at Apple probably think that we are too stupid, what privacy has got to do processor architecture? Apple Silicon is safer than Intel’s? If so, how come?

This seems poorly informed.

I don’t really see any reason to believe Apple Silicon should have an advantage in this case, this isn’t a public run-your-own-programs cloud where stuff like Meltdown really hurts Intel (not that Apple is immune to that sort of thing anyway).

The name of this blog, "Random thoughts", is quite apt. There didn't seem to be a point to this article, it's just a collection of random rants.

Author is here. Thanks for reading! Would you elaborate on what would you expect from the post?

This is exactly my thoughts on my new iPad mini 6. I'm the guest here, not the owner. So it may as well go back to apple.

I love Apple bashing. I really do. People complaining about one of the most successful companies on Earth having some of the most-loved products. They may as well just wear a t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "I'm Stupid!" You certainly want to keep those people away from your business because they don't understand success.

Getting back to TFA, actually AI is the killer feature for a keyboard-challenged device such as the iPhone and iPad. Why use your fingers to tap, gesture, and manipulate when you can simply speak what to do? The catch, of course, is whether Apple can actually make it work. It's been a while since anyone has been impressed by Siri, so we'll see.

But integrating AI across your local system to improve your workflow? That's actually pretty damn genius - if they can make it work. Apple is stellar in the world of hardware, but unfortunately, they're still hit-or-miss in the world of software. Here's hoping that "Apple Intelligence" is a hit!

> I love Apple bashing. I really do. People complaining about one of the most successful companies on Earth having some of the most-loved products. They may as well just wear a t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "I'm Stupid!" You certainly want to keep those people away from your business because they don't understand success.

Same, but for McDonalds.

Stupid is who agrees with everything blindly just because they were done by "successful" entities. Sure, why use your brain when you can get an answer by simply speaking to an AI assistant?

People said the same thing about calculators back in the day. They were wrong then and they're wrong now. Besides, I was talking about a UI - and speech is the most human and natural UI there is. Extremely powerful.

> People said the same thing about calculators back in the day. They were wrong then and they're wrong now.

This is the most copy-pasted sentence on the internet. Do you have any sensible argument?

Actually, in grade school I was part of the study that proved calculators enhanced mathematical performance. This was back in the 70s. So for me, it's a real experience and not just copy-paste argument and that experience has made a very lasting impression on me. Like I said, the naysayers were full of it back then, and they're full of it now.

Author buys a tablet, complains it’s too expensive, too powerful, and not a laptop. This makes author angry and complain about a whole other range of tangentially related issues. Author should have done their research and bought a laptop instead. MacBooks are pretty good devices, although they can be a little expensive and too powerful too.

Well, I was expecting they will make newer iPads more open than previous ones. But seeing WWDC '24 was mostly about AI, just made me think that Apple doesn't care about important issues that people are complaining for years.

> I was expecting they will make newer iPads more open than previous ones.

Why? Did you seriously expect Apple to make major changes to their product strategy because it's not working out well for you, when clearly it's working out pretty well for Apple? Was there anything underlying your expectation other than wishful thinking?

I think you are making the wrong assumption that Apple is building the computers that people are vocal about or ask for. Nobody asked for any of the computers they are selling today, but some users have some wishes, sure.

> Author buys a tablet, complains it’s too expensive, too powerful, and not a laptop.

There is nothing wrong with this expectation. For example, Librem 11 tablet runs a desktop OS without any restrictions. You can use it as a replacement for a laptop.

I had never heard about the Librem and PureOS, interesting.

Microsoft also famously makes tablets that run a desktop OS. I guess my point is that Apple makes it pretty clear from their marketing material that you are getting a tailor made OS for your iPad (hell, they even renamed it to « iPadOS » a few years back), and 30 seconds of research would make it very clear that it is indeed « restricted » in its usage.

If the goal of the author was to have full-fledged desktop experience Apple device, a MacBook Air would have been even less expensive than a tabled with a fancy $350 detachable keyboard. If the goal was a tablet with a full fledged desktop OS experience, there are a lot of options in both Windows and Linux ecosystems.

This mis-purchase just felt like a springboard to complain about a myriad of tangentially related Apple gripes.

> I guess my point is that Apple makes it pretty clear from their marketing material that you are getting a tailor made OS for your iPad

This is not clear at all from their video ads.

> This mis-purchase just felt like a springboard to complain about a myriad of tangentially related Apple gripes.

These complains are quite reasonable, see also the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349347

I would argue that it is, but then we are in a typical « he said, she said » territory.

I also believe that some of the burden is on the customer when considering a purchase. Nobody ever bought a tractor and then complained it didn’t do 150 mph on the highway.

The beginning of the article, talking about the iPad, brings to mind this video by dankpods https://youtu.be/J5wEUpLrQK0 (CW: loud australian man)

A better article complaining about the iPad design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40349347

My two cents worth.

1. This is why we research things before buying them for a purpose.

2. I never asked for AI. Every company thinks we all do, but I am not competing with my peers. Just being the genuine me.

3. Rants aside, merely recognizing a photo, more so than “IMG_0160.JPG” is about 25 years too late for both me and Apple, and is extremely welcome (image search is currently so idiotic that I use it for chuckles) though I suspect that I’ll have to lock my photos into iPhoto, the second most opaque piece of software Apple ever wrote, to use it. I like my files as files, not as a tree organized by date and time, and locked inside an application for general use. (Hello Gimp)

Dear clickbait writer, It is.

I can't take a person seriously when they reduce the iPad to a "toy".

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