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You spent $10k to get a program to write text that you can write yourself just as well and for free.

"You spent $1k on a flight ticket from SFO to NYC when you could have just walked yourself just as well and for free"

is there a good tool to manage these workloads? batch process a bunch, handle failures, retry things etc?

Isnt chrome doing process isolation per tab? The cost of RAM comes with strict security guarantees.

Why? Volvo famously gave away seatbelts to everyone so that it benefits the humanity.

Why do you want something useful like this to be with a company? Isnt it better if everyone in the world benefitted from this?

Features will degrade over time for _non-subscribers_.

I mean, duh? It isnt a gotcha. Do you expend resources in your life maintaining relationships / friendships with people that dont matter to you? Are you in touch with your high school best friend?

Poeple prioritize their limited resources, similarly companies prioritize their customers.

Your high school friend shouldnt say "baggazhipz has enshittified their relationship with me".

So it's not just me, an old man yelling at the cloud. The world is getting shittier.

This explains why Cory has been very irritated for a long time. If your outlook is world is objectively worse than 50 years ago, or even 20 years ago - then it makes sense why you're constantly upset at things.

"The arc of the technological universe is long, but it bends toward progress."

I dont think you're using the term correctly. Charging money for product/service is not enshittification. If you insist on that, you're living in fantasy land.

How did you go from "charge a fee for premium features" -> features degrade over time?

Apple has been charging a ton of money for their products and AFAICT their products have been pretty good

Elaborate? What are the two charts in this example?

Textbook strawman. Build up an alternate fact, and then attack it mercilessly.

A straw man argument is a common logical fallacy where someone distorts or exaggerates an opposing position to make it easier to attack. Instead of addressing the actual point, they refute a weaker, fabricated version of the argument (the "straw man") to create the illusion of having won the debate.

There's nothing AFAICT that says Google is considering any such thing.

This is great. "saga" and "canon" are most definitely a future model name candidates, although for lulz I'd like to see "Cinematic Universe"

This is interesting. Do you have any source?

404?

The revisionism about Apple is fascinating. "Apple is sitting out AI", "Apple is smart to see through the hype"

This is the same company that got caught pants down by making iPhone 15 "built ground up for Apple Intelligence". They breathlessly touted their superiority, and when they failed to deliver, tucked their tail behind the legs and went to their rival / frenemy Google for their model.

So nope, Apple isnt sitting this out. Apple is scared, and very much so. You're seeing the valiant fight of a dying giant.

Knew this was an SEO company even before clicking the article. They are the only people who looks at a search page and see dollar signs.

By this logic, when I submit bug report to Apple "I'm now an Apple QA. And I won't get paid for it"

Things don't have any inherent value. It is priced at a level that a buyer thinks it is worth.

A gallon of oil can be $3 or $6 depending on whether someone is willing to pay. It can also be $10 but only if people are willing to buy it at $10 if not "prices will come down to match the demand" - another way of saying it would be $9..$8...$7...$6 until it matches a buyer at which point gas is $6.

The headline doesnt match what is being written. It talks about author's experience with Google, and how more natural language queries are more in use instead of keyword search. But that's not the web, right?

This will be like writing an article saying "The cars are changing, and we are not going back" because Uber made a UI update.

In late 2025, Chinese provincial disciplinary authorities announced an investigation into Xu Hao, then chairman of Guizhou Big Data Group, for suspected violation of party discipline and national law.5 Apple’s services continued without disruption, and the company made no corresponding public disclosure. But the episode illustrated something that rarely surfaces in earnings calls or investor filings. Apple is not responsible for storing its Chinese user data; instead, a Chinese state-backed company fulfills this function. That company operates inside a system where CCP authorities can intervene directly, quietly, and without any formal public process.

It should send shudders down anybody's spine to know one of the bastions of human rights is very very comfortable being in bed with CCP. I know Apple is seen as the company that stands up for its user, except in China where it is willing to bend over backwards.

What's more concerning is the selective disclosure. They dont talk about this at all, and let Apple enthusiasts weave a clean image for them.

Google bought DoubleClick in 2008. That's nearly 20 years back. Either you're suggesting Google Search has been bad for 20 years, or you're just being willfully ignorant.

When it comes to the #OpenWeb, I am ride or die.

Isnt the whole idea of #OpenWeb open access to information? How does blocking using robots.txt in line with that?

There also seems to be an odd standoff between Apple and the streaming apps, eg no native YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, etc

Apple made the bed when they openly were hostile to the developers. There's a reason why every platform courts the developers (Remember MS's "developers developers developers").

Apple could get away from being a jerk because the devices were attractive, and the distribution it offered was stellar. But it isnt the device that makes the platform successful, but the developers. And YouTube, Netflix, Spotify and the likes know this.

So when AVP came along, for the first time, the power dynamics shifted. They didnt have to rush to the platform. Why should all these companies bend over backwards to make Apple's device a successful. And if they do the work, they'll be even more beholden to Apple's whims.

So they decided to sit out. And cue the fall out.

AVP hardwar is brilliant, but Apple overplayed its hand.

The cut off doesn't matter since all of them use tools.

That's great. Would you your country's test covers 100% of the situations a driver might encounter?

Even without knowing the details, I can confidently tell you they don't.

Does it teach you how to recover the car when the tires blow out? How about it is raining? How to react when a car is coming straight at you in the wrong way? How about when a dog jumps out?

True. While we're at it, let's not fixing roads as well. Also electric cars. Also what's the deal with space exploration? Fix what's on earth first please.

Are you suggesting every DL holder knows all the driving conditions?

Quick, what should one do when the car starts drifting in ice? How about aqua planing?

If it is just taking a regular DL test, then waymo, Tesla and others would be driving all across the US by now. They already have a higher standard

I'm one of those crazy ones who likes to own something they purchased, and not have the company watch everything I do with hardware I paid for.

What phone and laptop does Jeff use?

Why?

Are you suggesting apple is handing out user days to advertisors? That sounds strictly worse than the other option

This was a spectacular fumble to watch in real time. Apple panicked and rushed Apple Intelligence out of the door.

There's a nagging feeling in the back of my head because Apple Marketing was very very convincing. If they did this with vaporware, how much are they stretching the truth with other features? Lived experience tells us that Apple products are good, but I wonder whether the ads for Apple Watch, and Airpods .. oversell what's really possible.

Also, it is fascinating to read comments here on HN that say Apple is "strategically sitting AI out".

Something I've always found funny is when Apple creates a technology that can be used for malicious purpose, it is a user error. But when another company creates something that has adverse effect, it is the company's fault.

Here's a thought experiment

Meta creates Instagram leading to anxiety and mindless scrolling - Meta bad

OpenAI creates ChatGPT leading to jobloss and AI slop - OpenAI bad

Apple creates Airtag leading to IRL stalking - ???

Do you have browser history? I wonder whether handshake is happening of the last N entries in the history.