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...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.
...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.
...truistic and culture-affirming reasons. It's impressive!" Kind of reminds me of Apple's strategy credit of privacy.
...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. The app distribution model is a poor fit for infinite software. See also: The Wrapper ...
...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? Other companies have cloud services that make money based on usage. T...
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. Though OpenClaw's security model also demonstrates why Apple could never have done it. It's just too catastrophically ...
...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...
...ike the serpent the naive residents will have them killed. But perhaps being an apple farmer can help.
...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." Hard to argue with.
...ther. There's an interview with Steve Jobs in 1981 on Nightline. This is before Apple did the famous Big Brother ad. The interviewer, David Burnham, pushes back on computing and says "mainframes are evil they reduce everyone to just li...
...pply chain attack. A distillation of the top 25 MCP vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, Apple is planning to integrate MCP into the OS. What could possibly go wrong? Remember: LLM attacks are possible to be automatically constructed for any mo...
...ngerous (you could take an action that changes state). It's kind of similar for Apple to "activate" all of the illegible state locked up in the various 3P apps on your device. Google does have a lot of 1P context on you in their servic...
AI is to Apple as the internet was to Microsoft. From Strachery this week: "Everyone used the Internet on Windows PCs, but it was the Internet that created the cond...
Great quote from Stratechery this week: "The danger for Apple is that trying to keep AI in a box in its current paradigm will one day be seen like Microsoft trying to keep the Internet locked to its devices: fru...
Emergent processes don't do a good job counting. A few apple-related emergent process examples: Which bud on the apple tree should grow into an apple. Where to locate an apple orchard to have a viable business....
... Linux approach, you start with the tech and then put buttons on the front. The Apple approach, you start with the buttons and then build the tech behind it" "LLMs just give you the answer, unlike a Google, which there was a two-way re...