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Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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godzillabrennus wrote: post #40
brokencode wrote: post #6

This makes me worried for Apple. IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services, and Watson in particular has seemed to be a pretty mediocre product with heavy marketing and gimmicks (Jeopardy and H&R Block come to mind). Does Apple really think that it would be better to outsource cloud services to IBM than develop their own? To me, it looks like Apple lacks confidence in their o…

Remember the Motorola phones with iTunes integrated? Apple has proven that a partnership with an established vendor can be their first step into a market they want to own. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2005/09/07...

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Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by zitterbewegung »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #40
brokencode wrote: post #6

This makes me worried for Apple. IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services, and Watson in particular has seemed to be a pretty mediocre product with heavy marketing and gimmicks (Jeopardy and H&R Block come to mind). Does Apple really think that it would be better to outsource cloud services to IBM than develop their own? To me, it looks like Apple lacks confidence in their o…

Remember the Motorola phones with iTunes integrated? Apple has proven that a partnership with an established vendor can be their first step into a market they want to own. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2005/09/07...

It would make sense . They want to grow their services division so why not branch out to ML?

IBM has been struggling retaining people and their cloud efforts have been at best a distant fourth (AWS, AZURE and GCE). I tried using it and it had no advantage . At least Microsoft has a nice windows integration and UX and google has good UX and integration into Google services. AWS is the incumbent and what I personally use since I don’t trust Google and Azure doesn’t appeal to me due to my lack of need of Windows.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by ksec »

jldugger wrote: post #30
brokencode wrote: post #6

This makes me worried for Apple. IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services, and Watson in particular has seemed to be a pretty mediocre product with heavy marketing and gimmicks (Jeopardy and H&R Block come to mind). Does Apple really think that it would be better to outsource cloud services to IBM than develop their own? To me, it looks like Apple lacks confidence in their o…

> IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services But Apple is?

Not exactly cutting edge, but;

They now have their own fairly large CDN, and growing, likely even more so once they have their own Original TV Programme.

They have the largest Mesos system running in production.

iMessages is likely Third in terms of toal messages sent in Global IM Market Share. First being WeChat, 2nd being Whatsapp.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by sumoboy »

cptskippy wrote: post #27
brokencode wrote: post #6

This makes me worried for Apple. IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services, and Watson in particular has seemed to be a pretty mediocre product with heavy marketing and gimmicks (Jeopardy and H&R Block come to mind). Does Apple really think that it would be better to outsource cloud services to IBM than develop their own? To me, it looks like Apple lacks confidence in their o…

This isn't outsourcing, it is advertising. Apple and IBM have complimentary services that they've just made easier to integrate. There is a vacuum in the Enterprise from when Blackberry was the go-to device. This smells of an in-road Apple might be taking to make itself the defacto Mobile Device for Enterprise. IBM benefits from this by being able to market Watson services easier to App makers.

Also how this really a cross-platform path factoring in Android? Has IBM been relevant with anything in the past 10 years regarding technology?

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by mark_l_watson »

tomduncalf wrote: post #28
awakeasleep wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The user experiences of Notes and Contacts are both perfect, and they're an enormous part of what I do with a computing device

Agreed, Notes is now fully featured enough that it’s the only app I use for any kind of note taking.

How do you backup Apple Notes? I reluctantly stopped using Notes because there is no easy way to back up all Notes.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by solotronics »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #42
godzillabrennus wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember the Motorola phones with iTunes integrated? Apple has proven that a partnership with an established vendor can be their first step into a market they want to own. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.engadget.com/amp/2005/09/07...

It would make sense . They want to grow their services division so why not branch out to ML? IBM has been struggling retaining people and their cloud efforts have been at best a distant fourth (AWS, AZURE and GCE). I tried using it and it had no advantage . At least Microsoft has a nice windows integration and UX and google has good UX and integration into Google services. AWS is the incumbent and what I personally u…

Actually by the sales numbers GCE lags far behind and IBM Cloud is almost tied with AWS. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/01/26/amazon-to-...

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by brisance »

zhyan7109 wrote: post #29

Just spent a few minutes playing with the Watson Custom Model for vision flow and let's just say I am totally disappointed is an understatement, few things I noticed: 1. You first need to register an account, and to my surprise there is no command line tool or REST APIs, the entire interface is written in HTML. Hmmm, are they expecting me to specify the network structure by pressing buttons 2. Okay next, after choosi…

Command line tool here. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cli

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by Moto7451 »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #45
tomduncalf wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, Notes is now fully featured enough that it’s the only app I use for any kind of note taking.

How do you backup Apple Notes? I reluctantly stopped using Notes because there is no easy way to back up all Notes.

They backup to iCloud. Just toggle the sync on in th iCloud preferences on your Mac/iDevice.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by moonlighter »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #45
tomduncalf wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, Notes is now fully featured enough that it’s the only app I use for any kind of note taking.

How do you backup Apple Notes? I reluctantly stopped using Notes because there is no easy way to back up all Notes.

Time Machine backs them up, as well as iCloud.
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