Macalope does not like to complain (lol). Really, in the end, being an apple expert is not a bad concert. Well, the hours are quite good, anyway.
Recently, however, it seems that there are only two major subjects in the world of apples and both are zero. The first is AI. Macalope agrees (although a little reluctantly because of its other faults of many faults) that AI can be a very useful tool, in certain cases of well -defined use (such as programming). He just has two real problems: companies trying to put it in place in everything and the fact that it is simply unreliable. You could get a good answer, but you might not do it.
Last month, David Pierce du Verge deplored that the current media around AI “reduced a whole generation of gadgets”. Companies (coughs, apple, cough) run their wheels by trying to finish all their products Ai-Si-Si-IFIFY, adding “features” that no one asked to use a technology that nobody trusts, rather than working on new features. A plurality of Americans questioned by Pew Research (PDF) believes that AI will have a negative effect on the United States over the next 20 years.
If you are wondering why AI continues to be pushed tirelessly despite the indifference of customers or the outright disdain, take this example by the CEO of Shopify. AI is seen by CEOs and venture capital as a way to put people. They prefer to burn the Amazonian forest on the ground, paver and put the biggest arby in the world than hire one of you ungrateful and bags of meat in need.
Wah-wah, I want health care. Wah-wah, I want a 401k. What about the fifth CEO yacht? Have you ever stopped to think that?
If you read the news, you've probably seen reports on how Apple burned cycles trying to get AI to improve Siri. The information provided a backstage of the backstage of “How Apple has groped the youth cure of the IA of Siri” on the basis of the accounts of the former Apple employees, who may or may not be growled. The trip to the New York Times Mickle just went with “What's wrong with Apple?”. Perhaps Mickle thought he intelligently dodges the law of Betterdidge there, but, in the end, the answer to any article by Mickle on Apple is “no”., Whether the title is trained or not.
Well, if you don't like AI, don't fear! There is another shit subject that rises the big titles of the apple: the prices. Amusing.
The last two weeks have been a real roller coaster of new prices. Or maybe the tilt-a-white is a more precise conduct, where everyone inside the inclination had state sushi for lunch and is, uh-oh, Suddenly, don't feel so well.
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Firstly, prices have been announced, sending dropped markets because, a spoiler alert, they are a garbage policy that simply antagonizes business partners as well as citizens who suddenly have to pay more for goods. However, the Trump administration reacted quickly … by raising said prices, and macalope thinks that it is a direct quotation, “more highs percent”.
Above sure, it is a direct quote. Maybe someone can check this.
Then, late Friday, good news! It looks like the donation of $ 1 million from Tim Cook did Pay because, oh, have we said prices on everything? No, no, not on smartphones. Or laptops. Or hard drives. Processors. Fleas. What do you have.
Well, this seems to be a strangely specific neckline designed only for the benefit of certain CEOs who have shoved money in the inauguration fund of Trump but … okay, well, at least Apple can …
“Prices on chips, phones, laptops are still to come, the secretary of commerce warns”
Oh, come on. Macalope has not even succeeded in the sentence. I have to start using shorter sentences.
It is almost As if no one knows what they are doing.
Almost.
The macalope point here is that none of these subjects is fun to cover. The Horny One entered technological writing because it was fun to speculate on future products or to talk about things that were currently shipping. A technology that is largely motivated by the desire to put people and politicians that are motivated by a meager understanding of global economic forces are fair … sad.
But right now, these are the elephants of the room. They are inevitable. And that stinks.
