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Quinn Nelson@SnazzyLabs

The tardiness of Apple Intelligence’s introduction, the delay in shipping promised features, and the underwhelming capability of nearly everything they’ve launched add up to what may go down as one of the biggest fumbles in Apple’s history. It’s frankly embarrassing.

3.3K likes225 repliesPosted Feb 26, 2025

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> be anthropic > see an indie project built on your model > it sold more of your $200/mo subscriptions than your incompetent marketing ever could > ban accounts for using it > copystrike its funny name that drives more discovery of your products @DarioAmodei do you hate success?

Non-technical teams are now shipping production code with no oversight from managers who are busy with 15+ direct reports and getting their hands dirty being player-coaches. Sounds like exactly what I want in my financial institution.

META shipping a useful tool is bullish you can wrap this right now and create a startup that sells it for 3x the inference cost people who get good at speedrunning this kind of arbitrage get rich while wagies slave away in the goymines

“Non-technical teams are now shipping production code” This is not allowed in @TrustWallet. Engineers with product sense can now ship without non-technical teams, but non-technical teams cannot ship without engineers.

Thariq is on vacation

This is part of working with the EU AI Act, other labs are adding similar watermarking. It’s hard to identify AI-generated text, and this gives people better tools to do that. We’ll also be a shipping text detection API that you can use yourself.

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The MacBook Neo is basically the Walmart M1 MacBook Air. But new. Their specs are a bit different: Neo has a better webcam, display, CPU/NPU. M1 Air had a better GPU, battery, a Force Touch trackpad. Both had 8GB memory. Both had 256GB storage. Both were $599.

Apple continues to believe that they can apply their mobile games strategy to the AAA/console market. They cannot. It doesn’t matter how good your tech or storefront is. You will lose. As you have continued to for many years. Open your wallet, Tim, or shut up.

Happy 10th birthday to Apple Watch! Revisiting the original keynote is a nostalgic trip because it’s so different from what Apple envisioned. While it’s undoubtedly better now than it was at launch, it ain’t as pretty! The original pillow case design was simply breathtaking.

It's delayed, so throw in the towel on trying to ship something and take the time to get it done right. Then kill Siri as a brand and product. Rename this new thing the Apple Assistant or Jeeves or some crap, idk, but Siri will never not be viewed as total garbage by normies.

On the one hand, why is this surprising? PayPal is a scummy company. On the other hand, if not last-click affiliate advantage, there’s no other way for Honey to generate revenue, no? I’ve never worked with Honey because I just presumed this was how it worked.

The new Mac mini is yet another new Apple product made in Vietnam. I know most of the components within it are still manufactured in China, but it seems Apple is trying to change that ASAP and that’s good. Hopefully soon the SoC inside will be US-manufactured!