Apple releases MGIE, an AI-based image editing model

Post by Vt71fcAqt7 » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 7:34 PM UTC

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Someone just noticed Apple’s decades old SOP. Watch the aggregate fumble about, fail over and over, then take the few ideas that survive rapid, aimless iteration attempts and add the last mile of polish. A decade of crappy Palm, WinCE, and easily forgotten Java based mobile devices came and went before iPhone. They know what software people refuse to accept; it’s the hardware experience that matters and they’ll wait…

Apple's real SOP is to make white males believe in the inevitability of Apple cultural dominance so they feel inclined to buy anything with the logo on it as a signal i.e. you convinced yourself Vision Pro was great before ever using it

Post by bombcar » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 7:41 PM UTC

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Apple makes a ton of sense. They sell hardware (and services for that hardware). It would make sense that they want to commoditize foundation models while at the same time creating yet another reason to buy their most powerful hardware. Meta is the real wildcard here. They're betting on "commoditize your compliment" and hoping by making GenAI training nearly free (by doing it for you) that none of their competitors c…

Historically, Apple doesn't sell hardware, they sell a combination of software and hardware that are supposedly more tightly integrated than is possible when those things are developed separately. It's interesting and surprising that they would develop and release an open source model.

Post by bombcar » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 7:45 PM UTC

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I’m not at all convinced about the inevitable success of the Vision Pro (which I maintain is in its current form, a dev kit being marketed as a mass-consumer device), but this just isn’t true. To use a few examples that have happened after Apple Maps: * The Apple Watch — Apple was at least 2 years behind other smartwatches when it launched in 2015 and now it basically owns the category. The first version wasn’t quite…

The Apple Watch was 2 years behind other smartwatches? How so?

Post by bombcar » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 7:54 PM UTC

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Someone just noticed Apple’s decades old SOP. Watch the aggregate fumble about, fail over and over, then take the few ideas that survive rapid, aimless iteration attempts and add the last mile of polish. A decade of crappy Palm, WinCE, and easily forgotten Java based mobile devices came and went before iPhone. They know what software people refuse to accept; it’s the hardware experience that matters and they’ll wait…

> A decade of crappy Palm, WinCE, and easily forgotten Java based mobile devices came and went before iPhone Including the Apple Newton, arguably the first handheld device.

Post by tiltowait » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 9:39 PM UTC

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I’m not at all convinced about the inevitable success of the Vision Pro (which I maintain is in its current form, a dev kit being marketed as a mass-consumer device), but this just isn’t true. To use a few examples that have happened after Apple Maps: * The Apple Watch — Apple was at least 2 years behind other smartwatches when it launched in 2015 and now it basically owns the category. The first version wasn’t quite…

I agree that Apple software has a big hill to climb when it doesn't have the iPhone halo to buttress its bugs. The Apple Watch has a big advantage: it's one of the cheapest things they sell. It is the iPod Shuffle of its time. But as it doesn't work without an iPhone, I cannot agree that it owns the market.