Apple is going to restrict Full Disk Access in the age of agents.
Apple is going to restrict Full Disk Access in the age of agents. It's the only way for other software to get access to iMessages. On the one hand, it's go...
Topic: Apple
73 mentions · 53 chunks · 44 episodes
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- Apple appears in 53 chunks across 44 episodes, from 2023-11-06 to 2026-10-05.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 6/17/24 (2024-06-17), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Google, Microsoft, and Gemini, while by chunk count it sits between Openclaw and gilded turd; its yearly rank moved from #8 in 2023 to #27 in 2026.
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Local vs cloud is not the most important spectrum for digital ownership.
...hin their territory. Like a digital embassy. Local and their turf: your iPhone. Apple gets to decide which updates to push to the device. On the device, you can't write a program to access your own iMessages. Local aligns with your tur...
With their most recent iPhone, Apple makes a stab at defining the AI category: "Intelligent Personal Hub".
With their most recent iPhone, Apple makes a stab at defining the AI category: "Intelligent Personal Hub". Meta Muse's category is "Personal Digital Assistant." The former implies an eme...
Having a billion people use the exact same code stays as expensive as it ever was.
...o add an Archive feature to threads. It was easier for her to do that, than for Apple to decide to ship Archive for every user of iMessage.
There are a number of security conscious people who don't trust cloud-hosted TEEs.
...ho don't trust cloud-hosted TEEs. But oddly, they trust their consumer devices. Apple could be compelled to push a bespoke update to your specific device, and you'd never know!
Google engineers are more likely to think the code is an end.
...y to think the code is an end. Clean elegant code is worth it for its own sake. Apple engineers are more likely to think the user observable behavior is all that matters and it doesn't matter how ugly it is under the covers. The former...
The App Store, even Gruber would agree, is rotten.
...e itself has rotted to a kafkaesque, disgusting toll-collecting entity that the Apple 1984 ad would be embarrassed to be affiliated with.
Excellent piece of analysis: Always choose the good soap.
...on the soap, you shouldn't trust them to not skimp on the things you can't see. Apple has the most pure and defensible brand promise in tech. It blows my mind that they're continually incrementally sullying it with ads.
People who worked at Google tend to get the automatic flow working first, with manual as a fallback.
...e automatic flow working first, with manual as a fallback. People who worked at Apple tend to get the manual approach useful first and then add the automatic flow as an optional sweetener.
Ben Thompson with cutting commentary about Anthropic and Fable:
...truistic and culture-affirming reasons. It's impressive!" Kind of reminds me of Apple's strategy credit of privacy.
The iOS "no dynamic code" policy is precisely to prevent the next great OS from emerging out of Apple devices.
...mic code" policy is precisely to prevent the next great OS from emerging out of Apple devices. But at a certain point something new will emerge, and when it does it will blow past iPhones.
Apple Pulls 'Anything' App in Growing Clampdown on Vibe Coding Apps.
Apple Pulls 'Anything' App in Growing Clampdown on Vibe Coding Apps. The app distribution model is a poor fit for infinite software. See also: The Wrapper ...
This week in the Wild West Roundup.
...ard traffic to us. Within several hours, we can directly take over ~400 hosts." Apple Intelligence AI Guardrails Bypassed in New Attack. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Among 11 AI Models Vulnerable to One-Line Jailbreak. The idea that you...
Why doesn't Apple seem to optimize for short term engagement as much as other big tech companies?
Why doesn't Apple seem to optimize for short term engagement as much as other big tech companies? Other companies have cloud services that make money based on usage. T...
Apple could never build OpenClaw.
Apple could never build OpenClaw. It requires emergence. It requires messiness to the point of recklessness.
Jake Quist: OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been.
Jake Quist: OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been. Though OpenClaw's security model also demonstrates why Apple could never have done it. It's just too catastrophically ...
Every innovation starts off as a delusion.
...be viable, are revealed to be innovations. Does the startup idea cohere into an Apple… or a Theranos? Hallucinations, delusions, are where the capacity to imagine something different comes from. Without hallucination, nothing outside o...
Imagine an outsider visits Eden.
...ike the serpent the naive residents will have them killed. But perhaps being an apple farmer can help.
Google's Private AI Compute is a great development.
...I, Anthropic, every frontier lab: make this the new baseline. This is like what Apple did with Private Cloud Compute, but with a frontier model. Anthropic does use Confidential Compute for inference, but mostly to protect their weights...
NYTimes Opinion: "From Apple to Meta: How Silicon Valley Lost its Spine."
NYTimes Opinion: "From Apple to Meta: How Silicon Valley Lost its Spine." Hard to argue with.