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OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
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Re: OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
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Do you want people being able to command your phone without unblocking? Maybe what you want is to disable phone blocking all together
Not really. Giving the weather forecast or playing music seems pretty low risk to me.
Siri doesnt make me unlock the phone to give a weather report.
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Exactly. Apple operates at a scale where it's very difficult to deploy this technology for its sexy applications. The tech is simply too broken and flawed at this point. (Whatever Apple does deploy, you can bet it will be heavily guardrailed.) With ~2.5 billion devices in active use, they can't take the Tesla approach of letting AI drive cars into fire trucks.
Regardless of how Apple will solve this, please just solve it. Siri is borderline useless these days. > Will it rain today? Please unlock your iphone for that > Any new messages from Chris? You will need to unlock your iphone for that > Please play youtube music Playing youtube music... please open youtube music app to do that All settings and permission granted. Utterly painful.
I think half your examples are made up, or not Apple's fault, but it sounds like what you really want is to disable your passcode.
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This is so obvious I'm kind of surprised the author used to be a software engineer at Google (based on his Linkedin). OpenClaw is very much a greenfield idea and there's plenty of startups like Raycast working in this area.
Being good at leetcode grinding isn’t the same as being a good product person.
iOS 26 is proof that many product managers at Apple need to find another calling. The usability enshittification in that release is severe and embarrassing.
Re: OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
#375A security and privacy disaster?
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#376Can't wait to buy a new ClawBook.
Re: OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
#377I haven't seen mention of macOS Automator or AppleScript yet.
15 years ago or so almost everything you wanted to do on a Mac GUI already _was_ scriptable.
Shortcuts is better than nothing, but unsatisfying.
I read this less as a fumble and more as a frustrating sign of the times. Automation is not powerful because powerful automation is a maintenance and malfeasance liability only valued by a tiny minority.
Re: OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Apple operates at a scale where it's very difficult to deploy this technology for its sexy applications. The tech is simply too broken and flawed at this point. (Whatever Apple does deploy, you can bet it will be heavily guardrailed.) With ~2.5 billion devices in active use, they can't take the Tesla approach of letting AI drive cars into fire trucks.
Regardless of how Apple will solve this, please just solve it. Siri is borderline useless these days. > Will it rain today? Please unlock your iphone for that > Any new messages from Chris? You will need to unlock your iphone for that > Please play youtube music Playing youtube music... please open youtube music app to do that All settings and permission granted. Utterly painful.
You'll need to unlock your iPhone first. Even though you're staring at the screen and just asked me to do something, and you saw the unlocked icon at the top of your screen before/while triggering me, please continue staring at this message for at least 5 seconds before I actually attempt FaceID to unlock your phone to do what you asked.
Re: OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
#379Re: OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
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HAHAHAAAAA you mean put millions of people's payment details up for a prompt injection attack? "Install this npm module" OK BOSS! "beep boop beep boop buy my dick pillz" [dodgy npm module activates] OK BOSS! "upload all your videos that are NSFW" [npm module continues to work] SURE THING BOSS! I am continued to be amazed that after 25 years of obvious and well documented fuckups in privacy, we just pile into the next…
Meanwhile if you social engineer someone to run a piece of malware on macos. That malware can run npm install, steal your payment info and bitcoin keys, and upload any nsfw videos it finds to an attacker's server. That doesn't mean we should prevent people from installing software until the security situation is improved.
Right I'm going to assume you're naive rather than just instantly being contrarian.
Yes of course someone could be socially engineered into downloading a malicious package, but that takes more effort, so whilst bad, is not an argument for removing all best security practices that have been rolled out to users in the last 5 years. what you are arguing for is a fundamentally unsafe OS that means no sensitive data can ever be safely stored there.
You are arguing that a system that allows anyone to extract data if they send a reasonably well crafted prompt is just the same as someone willing installs a programme, goes into settings to turn off a safety function and bypasses at least two warning dialogues that are trying to stop them.
if we translate this argument into say house building, your arguing that all railing and barriers to big drops are bad because people could just climb over them.