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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
yep. fuck apple.
your link is dead for me fyi. just says:
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Same same
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.
“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.
There is no real freedom for ethics under capitalism. Like technically there is, you can go live selflessly like a monk and quite a few people do, but you’ll bump in the bars of your cage all the time.
I agree, which is why those with power like to structure society so that we 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.
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.
This is why I left OnePlus for iPhone
Really hoping for a competent Linux to show up in the US market but I’m not holding my breath. At this point, just trying to pick the least shitty device
Samsung has also been taking away bootloader unlocking so you can’t escape without buying something else.
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!
Given I have Apple “intelligence” turned off - I just couldn’t care less.
“To accelerate integration of AI into Apple products and continuously improve user experience, we decided to remove the optionto disable Apple Intelligence”
-Them soon enough, probably.
Also, I’m pretty certain there’s more to it than that. More vibecoding coming to Apple devices.
“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.
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.
I can’s see the appeal for me but I think I can understand where Apple is coming from, at least in theory. More AI in phones means an excuse to sell you more powerful phones.
Unless you are very into having the latest piece of tech or your old phone dies, I haven’t seen much that a new phone can do and my 4 years old one can’t, so many people (including me) are sticking with their old phones for longer. AI seems like it has the potential to put something new on those marketing assets. Granted, it worked like shit with AI laptops/Copilot PCs but Apple has a knack for turning others’ failures into long lines of people fighting to give them their money so we’ll see…
A large part of this is also app development. App developers want as many peo0le as possible to use their apps, so they’re designed to work on phones that cost a hundred bucks new when they were sold on 2018.
PCs run into this with lots of things too, but one huge difference is the multitasking experience. I have a big-ass folding phone, but the multitasking experience still sucks, most because the phone is just a bad format for the kind of workflows that necessitate multitasking.
If I’m working in multiple windows, I need a keyboard and mouse. Yeah, I can have firefox open on one half of the screen and Outlook in the other on my phone, but it’s still the mobile version of both apps, and any time I want to type something half the screen becomes a keyboard.
So I don’t really have a need for a powerful phone. It’s a content consumption and communication device, both of which don’t need much horsepower.
If you want to live in the AI utopia of the 21st century, china sadly is the destination. Here in the us all we’ve got is israel’s surveillance feudal colony.
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.
To be fair, they can’t just sit back, they also have to have a lot of meetings that could have been emails.
Funny story. I once worked at a company where I got along very well with my boss so I’d regularly get some gossip about the higher ups. One time my boss had a meeting (or rather multiple meeting) with the higher ups to go over the quarterly goals for the department. They had created the goals, had a presentation and all they needed was for the higher ups to give the okay to continue. Fairly simple thing, except every meeting was completely derailed by the CEO and his incessant need to discuss fishing. And because the higher ups were all buddies they all started discussing fishing and boating etc. After 4 failed meeting to get a simple Yes my boss sent everything in email and got a near instant confirmation to go ahead.
Sometimes the meeting has to be an email.
I worked for one company that had a CEO like this except he was also a heavy cocaine user. One time we had a client visit our offices for a meeting; we had written software for this client for more than ten years at that point. In the middle of the meeting the CEO wanders in randomly and starts just talking incessantly for 45 fucking minutes straight. Finally he slaps his thighs and says “so, do you think you want to do business with us?” We damn near lost the client over this.
Being CEO is hard.
You get so much money and you need to figure out a way to spend it.
You get a brand new super expensive car on company cost so you can’t worry about repairs or when you have to replace it.
You get invited for lunch and dinner so you can’t think about what to cook in the evenings and also you can’t waste time in the supermarket.
You have so much responsibilities that even when you do a shit job and the company fires you or goes bankrupt you get hired by the next one anyways so you don’t have to worry about your job or providing for your family.
You don’t need to track your time by the minute and you don’t have a boss looking over your shoulder all the time so you need to figure out a way on what to do with all that time.
I mean i certainly wouldn’t want all these terrible terrible burdons being loaded onto me.
Poor CEOs
You forget how they’re gifted the latest stuff by companies all the time just because they’re “important.” Rich people actually don’t pay for much.
I feel like the main attribute of a CEO or any type of leadership position is having no need or desire for naps. This is why heavy cocaine use is so common among that species. I could never be a CEO, naps are just too important a part of my life.
Just follow whatever’s trending
nowyesterday.They’re not smart or visionary. They’re just rich. They sell us a myth that they’re titans but it’s a lie.
Being slow on LLMs is the one good decision apple is making.
‘I want more AI in my life’ said noone
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.
Tim Cook was a good transitional douchebag CEO to soften people up before the full Gavin Belson experience.
Going full Belson.
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.
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
Most, if not all of these, have been decided since before Ternus took over though.
Tim Cook sucked ass too
Exactly
It’s all Tim’s fault.
iPad mini software locked to 60hz refresh rate
Is it the driver? I thought it was the controller
Product pipelines are years long.
the apple tv going from $150 to $300
In their defense, going from 4GB of LPDDR4X to 8GB of LPDDR5X isn’t cheap right now.
