They are literally the best positioned company in the world to win.
The best chips in every device capable of running LLMs today and they will only get better. When all of compute is AI, users will not want to put their entire lives into a closed company's AI. Apple will be perfectly positioned to let users own their AI, so the AI doesn't own them. Their strong stance on privacy makes this even more realistic.
They control the OS. As the use of apps die and all of compute becomes AI, they will have the tightest integration of AI in the world, if they make the right moves allowing them to ship fully integrated and optimized AI only machines. That means stripping out everything not needed for AI and focusing on functional capabilities exposed for use by AI.
If they are willing to bite the bullet when they see that apps will be needed less and less, they can focus all of the brilliant team they have on a much more simplified model and eliminate the complexity of interaction faced with Siri and the old model of AI.
Apple was operating with "old" AI and can now integrate far superior AI to make it perform far better and provide a superior user experience.
The biggest problem Apple faces is realizing they will lose significant revenue as the integration of AI, agents, and functions makes them unnecessary and we'll have to see if they can bite the bullet and radically reshape the company around it. Their hardware and control of the OS and functions makes them in a far superior position to any company in tech to win. They can't rush it though. They have to do it right and have a plan for the migration to what is inevitable.
Already seeing them working hard to do the research needed in the AI sphere. MLX performs beautifully. Their experimentation in small LLMs is brilliant, because they'll be able to deploy many small llms and agents with specialized functions in the short term, that can run on previous iPhone versions while they upgrade the hardware in future generations for llms everywhere.
They have some of the smartest people in the world on their team and they have the money to recruit more if they can share a vision of domination. I think it is possible, I just am not privy to how they are thinking about the future. If they try to hold on to their current model too long they could lose.
The compelling reason to shift to local/decentralized AI is that all of compute will soon be AI and that means your entire existence will go into it. The question you should ask yourself is do you want everything about you being handled by Sam Altman, Google, Microsoft, etc? Do you want all of your compute dependent on them always being up and do you want to trust their security team with your life? Do you want to still be using closed/centralized/hosted AI when truly open AI surpasses all of them in performance and capability. If you have children or family, do you want them putting their entire lives in the hands of those folks.
Decentralized AI will eventually become p2p and swarmed and then the true power of agents and collaboration will soar via AI.
Anyway, excuse the soap box, but there are zero valid reasons for supporting and paying centralized keepers of AI that rarely share, collaborate or give back to the community that made what they have possible.
This is an amazing idea, but I got a 500 error when I tried to generate my feed. I added a bunch of extra keywords to mine if that helps to troubleshoot.
Here are comments from a quick review of this. I love what you have, but for me, it just would be too difficult to change how I work for it.
1. Font size in tasks to small for those of us with challenged eyes/big monitors. Don't see anywhere to be able to adjust it.
2. Notes - I am pretty locked in to note taking in Logseq with tags in notes, outlining, bidirectional linking, etc. My whole life revolves around notes that way including tasks, custom queries, etc. A lot of people are using this style of Markdown note taking on a variety of applications. I love all the functionality in this, but would for me an app like this with apps included that wraps around the note taking function would be good.
3. Only one gmail account. I tried to add another gmail to it, but couldn't see how. I am also using Spark for email which has a unified inbox for my 5 email accounts. I may be an outlier, but suspect a lot of folks have work and personal. Looks like I can have more than one calendar, but not email.
4. Search across email, calendars, tasks, notes, etc.
That's what I found with a first glance. I've used other similar apps, but I really like your focus on productivity, but for me, it just isn't a fit.
If you have questions or comments about my notes I'm happy to answer, but keep up the great work. This will be a perfect solution for a good number of folks.
Oh look, an unsigned article recycling myths about what Web3 is and what its impact will be. So tiresome to see how ignorant people in tech are about what is being built, how it will be used, and what the potential is without actually trying it out. As with anything with a financial incentive there are bad players in the space, but there are also people dedicating their lives to creating a better financial future for everyone. The fact that people like whomever wrote this dreck get away with the BS the spread, because people aren't actually intellectually curious enough to check it out is disappointing along with the spin that there is some nefarious force of people trying to steal from others. Do yourself a favor and actually try shit before you comment on it.
Example:. There is an entire social network protocol called Lens that frees people from the nefarious crap that Web2 gives to us. No costs to using it and it is built so anyone can build a network with privacy protected.
This post is poorly written by someone severely misinformed or deliberately dishonest and at best seriously naive about how technoology is adopted and evolves. Sad that people would give it any attention.
Wow, what a load of anti-analytical sensationalist crap from someone that obviously hasn't spent any real time in the ecosystem to see what is actually happening. The fact that more people are paying attention to this is a statement of ignorance rather than actual thoughtful discussion.
I find it sad and funny watching folks use this tired argument that forget how filled with scams the current financial system is. A good 3/4 of dotcom, penny stocks, boiler rooms, and even highly regarded stocks like Nikola prove that it doesn't matter where it is, money attracts scams and the SEC and others do nothing to prevent it. Try not living in such a naive world longing for a nanny state that doesn't/can't exist at least to protect people before the fact. Try owning responsibility for your financial existence. We'll still be here growing and taking on the financial world that exists to leech upon the naive and empowering people to create their own wealth and comfort.
Sorry about the link shortener in this post. The site is Chirp.la - I am not involved in the company and don't get anything for posting this, but friends created it.
Get rewarded with COINS for your content. Create channels and get paid for posts in your channel. No algos ever pushing content your way. It is a great community.
Elegant easy to use interface. Something my wife, mother, and others without any computer expertise used religiously and were saddened by demise. Now Google Photos on mobile is pretty good, but the web UX feels like it was pasted together without any thought as to user experience and both seem to make assumptions about what users know.