Surprise! The same company who bribed Trump with a bar of fucking gold. Fuck all big tech in the USA. They are a danger to humanity.
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John Apple
Johnny Appleseed
Way to fully slip Trump’s tiny penis into your mouth, John. Good start to your legacy.
Not a good start.
Other than just this, reading through the comments, this John fellow like he's trying to speed run enshittifying Apple.
MS and Apple looking to push that Linux migration with AI and other bad decisions.
speed run enshittifying Apple
They have had the nick name 'cRapple' ..amongst a hundred others for many many years. Such names doesn't come by them selves, so not sure why you think they are not already one of the most enshittified and evil corps in the world - they always were !..
Don't ever buy their products, or in any way support their controlled ecosystem..
I am in no way an Apple fan. I think their computers are fine but grossly over priced and their phones are ass. I would say compared to many other big tech companies, the enshittifying isn't as bad. Those like Google and Microsoft for example. If I had a gun to my head and had to buy a new Windows laptop or Mac and not install Linux, I'm taking the Mac. That's not a positive review for them, it's an insult to Microsoft.
So take what I said and just assume it means that they are just getting worse faster, not that they good and going to get bad. That ship sailed long ago as you pointed out.
Asahi Linux, here I come.
The president has these companies hostage in terms of trade rules. They appease him or they lose out, and considering the state of big tech, they need friends, because the AI bubble has drained their supply chains of resources.
Yeah, the poor mistreated crapple Corp are SO good and ONLY wewil Drump is what suddenly makes them a huge international evil turd !
I mean they obviously have no fanbase/money/power, so they cannot push back in any way, and are only now being 'forced' to be an evil fascist corp..
So.. lets all defend/protect the good Apple corp against the orange oligarch puppet, that is the ONLY reason they just now turned evil..
..Okay then..
The thing is, Apple was the exception in terms of the “AI” circlejerkery. Not trying to fanboi for them - simply pointing out that they are nowhere near the proportional outlay that the kool-aid drinkers are, in terms of ML spend.
They couldn't figure it out and their AI dep has been in shambles. Apple is/were not 'good' in any sense of the word. There are docs that describes why apple didn't get on the AI train, and they were NOT trying deliberately to fight back against AI - in any way..
That's probably about to change with their new CEO too:
"It's becoming clear that AI is not a fad, is not something that will go away in the next two or three years," said Jeronimo. "It's something that will dictate the future of most tech companies and indeed all companies."
He reckons AI could be "the most consequential technology" for Apple because it could either help it maintain its lofty position or create a set of daunting challenges.
https://www.dw.com/en/can-new-apple-ceo-john-ternus-fix-the-tech-giants-ai-woes/a-78575898
It's pretty likely that AI was the reason why Apple is changing CEOs in the first place, because they have been getting criticized for not being as hopelessly stupid about it as other tech companies are.
Nah, I don’t think that’s it. Cook is 65, and retirement (or semi-retirement) is appropriate for his age.
Termus is a hardware guy, and if AI is going to play a part in Apple’s long-term plan (and I agree that it will,) it’s going to skew heavily on-device. I don’t think we see any big AI changes from Apple just because Ternus is now CEO.
Also, Apple was kinda dull under Cook.
Which is a weird thing to say when you have big swings like the Vision Pro. But the phones pads and watches really played it safe.
Totally agree and why I’m cautiously optimistic about Ternus.
Fair, he was due to retire.
But at the very least, there's a good chance that Apple will start trying to ~~shoehorn~~ integrate AI in a lot of places. How much and where remains to be seen. Especially as a new CEO, there will be a lot of pressure to respond to all the criticism they've been receiving about their approach to AI.
Leave out the AI parts and you're right. People just don't realize that Trump will make it very hard to do business in the US if you don't follow his requests.
To the level that should be (and in many cases are but haven't yet been challenged successfully in court) illegal for the president to do, for many reasons.
The map in the article shows the American name for the lake on the Canadian side of the border and doesn't show the Canadian name for the lake at all. Thus far, I'm not favorably impressed with John's performance. But then, the people using his maps aren't his customers.
This whole thing sucks, but I think the location of the name likely has nothing to do with the change. It's likely where the name already was just for convenience.
Also, generally they just show one country or language name for things at a time. You wouldn't see Deutschland and Germany if you looked it up on the app. You'd see the one that made the most sense depending on the device or app settings. This is basically just a localization setting.
It's not one lake. It's now two lakes, divided by an international border. Canada's Lake Ontario, north of the border and Trumps Lake America south of the border. Trump and Apple can keep their petty political maneuvers to themselves. As if it makes America great again and wins the trade wars or the war with Iran, as that seems to be the delusion.