Oh, *Now* They Care About AI?

Right. So Apple fucked up. Badly. Everyone else was building and shipping AI stuff years ago – Google, Microsoft, even that weird startup down the street – and what did Apple do? Polished their hardware while pretending it didn’t matter. Now they’re scrambling like rats off a sinking ship because people are noticing Siri is still dumber than a bag of hammers.

This article basically says Apple *can* recover, but only if Tim Cook stops listening to whatever marketing twit told him “privacy” was enough and actually invests in the damn technology. They’ve got the silicon, apparently (the M-series chips are decent, I guess), they just need to use it for something other than making slightly shinier laptops.

The author bangs on about “personalization” and “on-device processing” – fancy words for “catching up.” They think Apple’s ecosystem lock-in is a secret weapon. It’s not, it’s hostage taking. And the biggest problem? They need to actually *ship* something useful before people just give up and buy Android phones that can already do half this shit.

Honestly, the whole thing reeks of desperation. “It’s not too late!” Yeah, well, it might be. Don’t expect miracles, folks. Expect more incremental updates disguised as revolutionary features. And a lot of hand-waving about “user experience.”

Source: TechCrunch

Related Anecdote (Because You People Need Context)

I once had to debug a routing issue on a network that was failing because someone, and I use the term loosely, decided to “optimize” things by hardcoding IP addresses. Hardcoding! In 2015! It took me three days, seventeen cups of coffee, and a near-nervous breakdown to fix it. Apple’s current AI strategy feels exactly like that: a fundamentally flawed decision made by someone who clearly doesn’t understand the basics. Don’t even get me started on their closed garden approach.

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