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Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by Spooky23 »

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…

You should check them out. They have some really interesting “framework”apps that you can quickly customize and deploy.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by inferiorhuman »

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.

FWIW Notes can store its data on any IMAP server.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by pjmlp »

sumoboy wrote: post #44
cptskippy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

They have one of the best JVMs.

Are the ones porting Go to their UNIX and mainframe variants.

Used to be the biggest contributor to Swift on Linux (not sure about nowadays).

Seat on the ANSI C++ table.

I imagine many Linux kernel goodies are still coming from them.

They are still one of the companies with biggest amount of patents per year.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by pjmlp »

zhyan7109 wrote: post #37
Intrepidy wrote: post #35

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Of course you can't imagine anyone using it because (a) you are not the target audience and (b) you are being deliberately contemptuous about the product because it was built by IBM. If you simply re-read all your own points from an objective standpoint, it should be apparent that this is geared towards individuals who have minimal or no machine learning (much less deep learning) experience; but nevertheless feel the…

Perhaps I'm not understanding the intent of this collaboration between Apple and IBM but I would like to think that anyone who can write/publish iOS apps should have the aptitude to spend a couple hours understand the basics of deep learning. Would you honestly use an app that was contains an image-classification model that's trained using this flow. Please enlighten me. Or am I the only person who DD'd on their prod…

I graduated with honours, did 3D graphics programming in the past, systems programming is one of my favourite areas, worked at few well known names internationally.

Yet I can't get my head around neural networks and related concepts.

Just because it is easy for you, don't assume the same for everyone else.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by euroclydon »

solotronics wrote: post #47
zitterbewegung wrote: post #42

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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-...

I really have to wonder about what IBM includes in cloud revenue and how thier profitability compares with AWS.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by coldtea »

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 makes me worried for Apple.

Yeah, Apple is doomed /s

>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 own internal abilities, and that’s not a good look.

Apple doesn't outsource their Cloud services to IBM. This story is not about that at all.

(They do use Azure and Google Cloud though, and perhaps Amazon too).

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by coldtea »

sumoboy wrote: post #44
cptskippy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

>Has IBM been relevant with anything in the past 10 years regarding technology?

For your line of work, perhaps not. For the enterprise and government customers, where they make billions, very much so.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by lemming »

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…

Watson in particular has seemed to be a pretty mediocre product with heavy marketing and gimmicks (Jeopardy and H&R Block come to mind)

FWIW, I thought that Watson playing Jeopardy was flat out amazing.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by mark_l_watson »

Moto7451 wrote: post #49
mark_l_watson wrote: post #45

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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.

But the format is opaque. I would like to archive as html, pdf, etc. - and not by saving them one at a time.

Re: IBM Cloud Developer Console for Apple

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Post by cptskippy »

sumoboy wrote: post #44
cptskippy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> Has IBM been relevant with anything in the past 10 years regarding technology?

You use things developed by IBM daily without even knowing it. Barcodes, credit cards, RAM, hard drives, modern microprocessors, airline travel, laser eye surgery, and even relational databases are all possible thanks to advances by IBM. Almost all nanotechnology research utilizes scanning tunneling microscopy which was invented IBM.

IBM Research is usually bleeding edge technology. They work on technology decades before it becomes mainstream. Currently they're doing research in things like High temperature superconductivity, Quantum Computing, and Nanotechnology.

IBM also develops solutions for the financial services industry and are working on Blockchain technologies for the banking system. They're doing advanced AI research. They have healthcare and geo-spatial initiatives as well.

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