technology crowd: “damn apple and their closed ecosystem!”

technology crowd: “damn apple and their ecosystem not being closed enough!”

there is a point where something sucks so much it blows.

not to mention, why would you even want to start a conversation that could run on indefinitely and keep you hostage in your laundry room. nothing about this makes sense if you think about it for 5 seconds.

apple does it, and i think Google too. everyone you add to your “family” must share the same payment method. so naturally you will limit that to only people you highly trust.

also most hydrogen now is not green at all, the production of it uses methane and releases CO2. only a small percent of hydrogen is truly green, and very expensive.

you should be able to use games within your family completely unlimited anyway.

I would understand the local connection requirement if that was for sharing with people outside your family. that would make it similar to sharing a game with a friend you know in person. without that the floodgates would be open to sharing games with literally anyone online.

looks cool but unfortunately we can only use approved apps which are mostly within the google ecosystem.

8 thousand executives making product decisions from the top down and trying to cram every facet of the business into every other product.

“one reddit user said…”

i was so glad my new job uses google products, but the one thing they are missing is a counterpart to onenote. Keep ain’t it.

some places do this, not all. i try every time to keep the ticket as a memento.

why do they need DNA for that?

Companies that sell safety razors (or whatever buy-once product) probably also do lots of other stuff to diversify.

everyone is guaranteed to buy death/funeral related stuff, not everyone wants a DNA test. Also all of that crap (headstone, funeral service, coffin etc) is bundeled together in a massive payday, not to mention funeral places tend to price gouge the bereaved. So a single death is a much bigger payday than a single DNA test.

As for the other products you mentioned, i doubt any of those companies literally only sell those individual products. They probably diversify to other products and services too.

true but after the enormous initial boom they would have reached an equilibrium of a small trickle. the question is if that small trickle is enough to sustain a company on its own, so apparently not.

one of the cofounders is trying to buyout the company but I have to imagine they’ll get outbid in the bakruptcy process.

There is code in Siri that understands calendars, but the LLM part ain’t it.

yes i know, you are getting hung up on my colloquial use of “understand”. the LLM doesn’t need to “understand” it on that level because siri does. the LLM is there to parse the language and hand off to Siri. that’s all i’m saying.

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i suspect we are going to have a semantic disagreement on what “understanding” means here.

ChatGPT is absolutely trained on the concept of calendars, that iPhones indeed have calendars, and how they work. It doesn’t need to “understand” what a calendar is on a deep epistemological level to process requests about them. If you ask chatGPT a question about calendars, it’ll answer you. So in that shallower sense LLMs absolutely “understand” what you mean, and that’s enough for chatGPT to help siri.

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