I can’t see, or I’m missing, the list of companies included but I couldn’t help but, snarkily, think “I guess you could leave Apple in that index” seeing how I don’t think their their valuation factors in “AI”, given their stumbles/failures thus far.
Ehh, not “it” but it’s important if you want an agent to have access to all your “stuff”.
macOS is the only game in town if you want easy access to iMessage, Photos, Reminders, Notes, etc and while Macs are not cheap, the baseline Mac Mini is a great deal. A raspberry Pi is going to run you $100+ when all is said and done and a Mac Mini is $600. So let’s call it. $500 difference. A Mac Mini is infinitely more powerful than a Pi, can run more software, is more useful if you decide to repurpose it, has a higher resale value and is easier to resell, is just more familiar to more people, and it just looks way nicer.
So while iMessage access is very important, I don’t think it comes close to being the only reason, or “it”.
I’d also imagine that it might be easier to have an agent fake being a real person controlling a browser on a Mac verses any Linux-based platform.
Note: I don’t own a Mac Mini nor do I run any Claw-type software currently.
I'd love the ability to run a command on connection to a server (like "tmux attach -t main") and also a way to create my own buttons in the UI to send things like tmux commands (next window, create window, etc) to make it easier use from my phone.
Also, and I'll probably just buy it to test, but how does it handle copy/paste and STT? Especially with coding agents I use speech-to-text to explain something and that's always hit or miss in terminal apps on iOS in my experience.
Oh, very interesting, I wasn't even aware this was a thing. I mean, I guess it's obvious but after trying third-party keyboards years ago (and finding them too buggy) I never really kept up with them. I'll check that out!
I've tried explaining this to people till I'm blue in the face. It's simply unreasonable to plan specific tickets out that far. We simply don't know what we don't know. And that assumes business priorities will not change and the project requirements will not change (two things that almost always happen). Additionally, the mindset that we can embark on a multi-week/month project and stop/start it at a whim.
Ditto. In my experience it comes from our customer more then internally. They want all the risk reduction and stability provided by the old "waterfall" methods, but with the flexibility and speed of agile. But of course those two things don't mix. You need months if not years to plan a project the way they use to. We can't cram that amount of planning into a week.
Worse yet, once all those stories are made, they don't want us creating more. It takes a damn review board to get anything changed.
I would like nothing more but the goodwill (what little is left) that would be burnt with the developers who updated their apps to use Liquid Glass might be more than Apple can handle.
Best bet and to move as quickly as possible to tone it down, fix the bugs, and get someone who actually likes macOS in charge(clearly the people in charge hate it, why else would they treat it so badly). The System Settings app was the canary in the coal mine (yes, I'm sure there even better canaries but it's the first that comes to mind), whoever let that out the door should have already been reprimanded but instead Apple doubled down and created the trash heap that is Tahoe.
> Yep; and all Apple fans ever say is "report feedback!!!"
I'm trying not fall into "No True Scotsman" but... It should be common knowledge at this point that Apple Feedback is a blackhole of despair. "Please attach a sample project" seems to be the go-to, even for things were that makes no sense. Same with attaching debug/diagnostic logs. I understand the value of all of those things but even people who have jumped through all the hoops get ghosted and/or their issue is never addressed.
Currently I would not waste my time on Feedback and it's sad because even if Apple reverses course it will take a lot to get the people who they should most want creating Feedbacks to create them.
I think right here is high on the list of “Why is Apple behind in AI?”. To be clear, I’m not saying at all that I agree with Apple or that I’m defending their position. However, I think that Apple’s lackluster AI products have largely been a result of them, not feeling comfortable with the uncertainty of LLM’s.
That’s not to paint them as wise beyond their years or anything like that, but just that historically Apple has wanted strict control over its products and what they do and LLMs throw that out the window. Unfortunately that that’s also what people find incredibly useful about LLMs, their uncertainty is one of the most “magical” aspects IMHO.
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