If my Grandma had wheels she would be a bicycle. Apple would need to transition from being a consumer electronics company to being a B2B retailer for data centre hardware to take advantage of this.

Obviously Siri from WWDC 2yrs ago was a disaster for Apple. Other than that they seem to have done pretty well navigating the new LLM world. I do think they would benefit from having their own SOA LLM, but I don’t think its is necessary for them. My mental model for LLMs and Apple is that they are similar Garage Band - “Now everyone can play an instrument” becomes “now anyone can make an app”. Apple owns the interface to the user (i don’t see anyone making nicer to use consumer hardware) and can use what ever stack in the background to deliver the technical features they decide to.

They should be allowed to make money from their work. Their work is MIT licensed, if it goes south it is rescuable by the community.

Things come and go, let’s not beat up some dudes who made some cool stuff, made everyone’s lives easier and then sold up. There is a timeline where this makes UV / python better.

That's all fine. I don't think anyone is upset they got purchased. It's clear it was heading that direction anyway. What everyone is upset about is that they were purchased by OpenAI, who isn't exactly a trustworthy company.

One is a fashion item, another is an education focussed laptop. People will pay a lot of money for how things look.

When I use Claude code to work on a hobby project it feels like doom scrolling…

I can’t get my head around if the hobby is the making or the having, but fair to say I’ve felt quite dissatisfied at the end of my hobby sessions lately so leaning towards the former.

Agreed, I code for fun. But I am not sure if I still find it fun if the LLM just makes what I want.

The only reason we can’t fly is that we don’t have wings.

It’s a limitation created by our brains evolving to process 3D environments. If we were LLMs we have no 4D training data.

A great example is the film Arrival.

Arrival is one of the best films ever.

To stop comparison to the old 12” 1 port MacBook?

If you were to align the MacBook line with iPhone line logically this would be an ‘e’ class device, the Air would just become the MacBook, pro remains pro, and there would be a nice gap for a new ultra light MacBook Air, a modern Apple silicon version of the 12” MacBook - expensive, small and fast, analogous to iPhone Air.

Also new names are fun. This name is a fun name. Nice to see some playfulness from Apple.

I agree that it isn’t as good as it was but compared to windows (with adds in the start menu, and two different settings menus for a decade as examples) it’s still better. More of a glass of warm cheap whiskey, than a glass of cool ice water in hell.

I’m using a refurbed m4 Mac mini, connected to a unifi nas pro 8, super fun and straightforward. Feels like I only have to do the tinkering I want to do.

Some times it feels amazing, sometimes it feels like doomscrolling.

Another project that makes me want an equivalent for 2D or 3D CAD! CAD is missing a QGIS or Blender…

Congrats to QGIS team, looking forward to native apple silicon support

I don't know about Blender, but for QGIS I think open or at least well known formats are what gave it a chance to compete against ArcGIS.

For CAD, I think that an strong open format would make things much more easy for FOSS CAD software. I can see this starting happening with BIM.

I believe in freecad! It's not there yet, but the latest release is a lot of progress!

When I finally Get Around To™ learning CAD, I'll definitely invest my time in FreeCAD.

Hmmmm... even though I'm a cheerleader for it, I wouldn't recommend starting with FreeCAD. Learn on something more feature-complete and with a less idiosyncratic UI, like Onshape. I learned Solidworks at work and without that foundation I wouldn't understand what's wrong / missing about FreeCAD (which is still a lot).