You just put words in Apple's mouth. This is exactly what they should do but safer . This is entirely possible because only apple has control on their ecosystem.
If they optimize their entire hardware line (iPhone, Watch, Mac Mini, Macbook) AI enhanced with local/remote LLM model, they will win big. Imagine someone running a business can manage their entire business with iPhone/Mac/iCloud without buying any other saas services (inventory, payments, customer service).
> The thing is: it's a lot easier to live your life thinking you could have done X if you wanted to, than to "disappoint" these people that believed in you by trying and failing. You can always lean on this idea in your head of what you could have been, and how everyone believed in you so it must be true, but you just chose not to follow that path.
sometimes the best decision is the one you don't take.
Why not just offer dual license open source + commercial license.
If anyone is making money off the code they should pay annual fee which goes to contributors. Github can setup an escrow, manage licenses and distribute the money to contributors.
1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems.
I think this problem is rooted in early education: students learn languages, frameworks, and tools first without understanding what problems they actually solve. Once engineers have experience building a few products for users, they begin to understand what matters to the user.
2. Being right is cheap. Getting to right together is the real work.
- Sadly most of the arguments are won by either someone in power or experience. Right decisions are made with consensus. You build consensus during creative process and leverage power and experience during crisis.
3. Bias towards action. Ship. You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank one.
- Every decision is a risk management. The smart people convert higher risk into lower risk. Most people struggle here to take the risk because of the fear of failing and just waste time arguing, debating and winning over each other.
Hardware are more reliable and lasts longer. The software makes the hardware less useful over time.
Apple is moving into the subscription everything model slowly if you noticed. You can get new phone every year with Apple Upgrade Program, News+, Fitness+, iCloud+, Apple TV+ etc. Slowly you will be locked into the ecosystem and can't escape it. We might as well call Apple (Google/Amazon to an extent) an utility at this point.
The are two projects that I know which attempted to solve that problem.
India's has DEPA (Data Empowerment And Protection Architecture) framework that addresses the data consent problem. (e.g bank will ask your consent before sharing the data). The advantage here is it providers legal framework as well.
The solid project from Tim Berners-Lee (who invented world wide web) is an attempt to solve that. https://solidproject.org/. This is pure consumer owned but there is no legal protection from the government.
Just a thought (I am no airline expert), If it costed 200 million to build the plane that was destroyed because landing gear can not be deployed then maybe it's time to think about building a catcher similar to spacex booster catch.
This would probably need different plane design like vertical landing and horizontal landing gears.
Writer has a point that we have evolved into compressing lot of the information, and the problem is not people it's "abundance". This raises the issue, how do you consume it? compress the it so it's quicker to digest otherwise. Example, how many tabs are open on your browser? why?
If we could use use gps co-ordinate then it would make all the life simpler. Imagine how many time you type those address info on the forms and not to forget typing mistakes.
IMO, there are few solid reasons to purchasing this tool
1. windsurf has lot of insights into how developer writes code, style, problem etc
2. for the prompt engineering that went into generating the code
3. only microsoft and cursor has the moat so they need to compete at the applications level not model level.
My prediction is anthropic, google or amazon will buy cursor. The next logical step to coding is building apps.
1. Remember Murphy's Law
2. Have Rollback option
3. Keep things todo on go live date to a minimum. You would be surprised lot of the risks can be mitigated before the date of change.
I like this - “Let your scars serve you; they are an invaluable learning experience and investment in your capability and resilience.”
I have had couple of scars of mine. I feel like sometimes you become risk-averse and When you are launching new things you will face the fear of failure.
Basically total cost of ownership has gone up!
If you add up, Purchase Price + Repair Cost + Gasoline Cost.
Not to mention, sale tax on each of the above (Higher the cost, Higher the tax).
Having no car, or maximum 1 car per family is probably a best option.