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Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by paulryanrogers »

conartist6 wrote: post #266
steve1977 wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I understand (which might be wrong), Liquid Glass was at least partially inspired by visionOS and "spatial computing". And I guess on that platform it might make sense for some use cases. That doesn't change the fact that I can hardly read some of the user interface in Apple Music for example. It's not that the idea is bad, but it's badly executed.

I was gonna be one of their biggest native apps, but then I found out how many light-years better facebook's APIs for AR were

Please say more

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by toraway »

gambiting wrote: post #298
Yajirobe wrote: post #295

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your symbian nokias with keyboards don't count

...because you said so? I'm assuming you will say Palms also don't count? Blackberries neither? Phones running Windows Mobile weren't really smartphones? Let me guess - nothing that wasn't an iPhone counts?

True, I would never argue the iPhone wasn't a transformational step-up in usability that made smartphones a mainstream device category thanks to the App Store and slab screen with multi-touch.

But at the same time.... I had been doing nearly everything the iPhone could do in terms of raw functionality (plus plenty of stuff that took 1+ years to land on iPhones) on multiple different Windows Mobile and Palm smartphones pre-iPhone.

Saying pre-iPhone smartphones don't count because "ugly nerdphone with gross keyboard" is just as ridiculous as a "iPhone was overhyped and no better than existing smartphones" claim.

Apple created a device category within smartphones that then consumed and became what we now think of as a "smartphone" after iPhone and Android together strangled the first movers.

Like, the famous Steve Jobs "an iPod, a phone, an internet communicator" line was just listing standard smartphone features by that point. More or less the definition of a smartphone in fact.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by conartist6 »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #311
conartist6 wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was gonna be one of their biggest native apps, but then I found out how many light-years better facebook's APIs for AR were

Please say more

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Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by 2ndorderthought »

rvnx wrote: post #79
worldsavior wrote: post #65

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That's why he said fake internet points.

These points might be fake, but they are far from being useless, and actually have monetary value. There is a market for buying and selling "aged" Hacker News accounts (3 USD 15 USD for ~500 points) and upvotes / downvotes By purchasing just ~300 karma points, founders can unlock an uplift of tens of thousands of dollars in visibility on the home page (clients and investors). So the LLM comments are not here just for…

I somehow got 500 points over the last few weeks. I can't imagine getting paid for that experience. Once I find a job I will absolutely not be on here anymore.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by engineer_22 »

rvnx wrote: post #47
engineer_22 wrote: post #38

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Risk of embarrassment is too great to be vibe coding, apple's brand is TRUST and people don't trust AI... A slip like this erodes their brand

Not really, almost all active software developers use AI nowadays. The research surveyed 121.000 developers across 450+ companies. A striking 92.6% of them use an AI coding assistant at least once a month, and roughly 75% use one weekly It's weird to believe that large corporations should be ashamed to use AI. It's a standard engineering practice, otherwise it's like if you refuse autocomplete because autocomplete is…

Please don't misunderstand, I agree with you. Myself, I use AI daily.

My point is:

Apple's customers aren't ready for that.

They don't understand the nuance.

And they don't think they should pay for a computer to do the work instead of a human, because "computers work for free".

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by vor_ »

dyauspitr wrote: post #128
fusslo wrote: post #5

to be honest, for some reason I expected most of apple to eschew claude/ai coding. I'm not sure why. It just doesn't feel very Apple-like

Why? It’s 1000x faster than most developers and can handle pretty hard problems.

That's certainly a claim.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by stouset »

gambiting wrote: post #248
stouset wrote: post #233

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I’ll give you a hint: you may very well have replied on this category of device.

...are we going to pretend smartphones didn't exist before iPhone was launched? I think I was on my 3rd one when the iPhone came out and even then it was a luxury toy for the rich, I didn't know anyone who actually had an iPhone for a good few years after they came out. Unless you're implying something else?

This entire subthread is discussing the statement

> People end up thinking Apple invented something because they tend to make the first usable version

I think we can all agree that the original iPhone is the conceptual progenitor of virtually every phone that’s mattered in the market since it was released.

Smartphones prior to it have essentially zero descendants. For all intents and purposes they effectively did invent the smartphone. Hell “smartphones” as a distinct market all but don’t even exist any more. They’re barely even “phones” at this point. And this entire arc of development points directly back to the original iPhone release.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Post by stouset »

gambiting wrote: post #298
Yajirobe wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

your symbian nokias with keyboards don't count

...because you said so? I'm assuming you will say Palms also don't count? Blackberries neither? Phones running Windows Mobile weren't really smartphones? Let me guess - nothing that wasn't an iPhone counts?

None of these were more than a blip in the market. Nothing today even remotely resembles these devices, inherits design language from them, or points back in any way to them. They are historical dead ends and nearly irrelevant.

Meanwhile the majority of people on earth own one or multiple devices that are more or less clones of the original iPhone, only faster, larger, thinner, and exponentially more capable.

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