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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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.
Given I have Apple “intelligence” turned off - I just couldn’t care less.
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.
Can't you use a different launcher? Samsung launcher has always been shit. I had a misfortune of using Samsung phone 10 years ago or so and even then it was excellent hardware mated to absolute trash software that slowed everything down.
Not OP, but I still haven't found anything worthy of replacing (the now radioactive) Nova Launcher
I switched to octopi launcher
The software has gotten a LOT better since 10 years ago. They also offer much longer updates. I still use a third party launcher with mine, but the default has become less offensive than back then.
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.
"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. This is called liberalism.
Yeah. Animals are way more ethical.
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.
"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.
If there is anything worse than getting into a pyramid scheme is getting late into a pyramid scheme
Keep in mind Apple has a poorly documented and mostly unknown daemon called knowledgeconstructiond that cannot be turned off and solely exists to profile you based on accessing every Apple apps data - ical, messages, mail, photos etc, which is astoundingly personal info especially considering a lot of Apple users dump everything into stock apps, as the “strength” of Apple has typically been consistency of the platform
https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
The person who wrote that article vibecoded an app that allows you to visualize the data captured: https://github.com/8rank/iKnow
It is basically all the gross shit that ad networks do. What does Apple do with this data, that has been aggregated since macos 13? Officially it’s probably to “enhance the user experience” but at a minimum it probably changes how Apple delivers ads to you. do they sell it? Who knows
Apple is following in Proton's footsteps.
'I want more AI in my life' said noone
Being slow on LLMs is the one good decision apple is making.
Oh yeah, time for some iSlop
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.
he not only he is pushing for a bad idea, he clearly missed the memo that Apple was mostly unaffected precisely because they had been slow to adopt AI
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.
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.
Don't forget the falling for honey traps.
Tim Cook was a good transitional douchebag CEO to soften people up before the full Gavin Belson experience.
I had no idea this was even happening. Am i out of the loop?
No shit. You say "AI" and investors scramble to throw money at you.
You say "AI will destroy the world" and they throw even more at you.
Everybody wants to own a piece of the apocalypse.
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