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Apple CEO John Ternus pressured Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi to “accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri,” reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.
Citing anonymous sources, Gurman writes that Ternus is “frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors,” and pushed Federighi for changes in a meeting behind closed doors. Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”
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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
Given I have Apple “intelligence” turned off - I just couldn’t care less.
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.
The latest iOS update was just slop. If you’re in Europe there are no tangible improvements since the slop isn’t allowed here.
I’ve been so frustrated with iOS 27. I spent an hour disabling as much AI shit as I could only for it to be reversed on the next update.
If it doesn’t settle down I’ll be looking into alternatives for my next device.
I haven’t bothered to update. Don’t really see the point as nothing new is added.
That’s fair. I think it’s habitual for me to be an early adopter and I’m finding that lately to be less desirable than it used to be.
So long as older versions continue to get security patches I’d say stay put.
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.
Samsung has also been taking away bootloader unlocking so you can’t escape without buying something else.
“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.
Funny. In my 1986 college freshman year I was required to take an ethics for engineers course. They told us working for the military industrial complex was bad.
Curiously, the MIC was hiring and was where the well-paying jobs were at the time. Also, the field was impacted thanks to decades of cold war STEM push.
And there you get the contrived desperation, that drove studying engineers students into Lockheed, Northrop and McDonnell Douglas like Russian girls into Epstein’s sex spa for billionaires.
It turns out you can’t eat ethics. Although I still find myself judging ICE recruits.
Unfortunately ethics is kinda one of those major pillars that separates us from the other animals in the kingdom.
I agree, which is why those with power like to structure society so that ee have to act against principle and according to loyalty to survive.
We like to imagine a differently shaped society run on rules guided by ethics, but so far power consolidates and those systems get perverted.
Apple is following in Proton’s footsteps.
“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…
In many cases they have blown past “the customer will like it” all the way to “our data suggests that 90% of customers will not leave and profits will slightly increase as a result.”
I mean, at this point enshittification is a widespread business plan.
And one main premise of capitalism is that you have market choice. Well when every car has a screen now, no options on AI, etc it sort of defeats that premise.
If there is anything worse than getting into a pyramid scheme is getting late into a pyramid scheme
Google got in late to .com
And look at them now. The anti-privacy slophole company!
‘I want more AI in my life’ said noone
Oh yeah, time for some iSlop
Why not just add ChatGPT behind Siri?
Being slow on LLMs is the one good decision apple is making.
I had no idea this was even happening. Am i out of the loop?
How about Apple makes FaceTime calls be halogram call like in Star Wars? Oh wait, nobody is asking for that. Just like nobody is asking for AI but here we are.
