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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by philistine »

ksec wrote: post #466
lynndotpy wrote: post #460

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Yes!! I agree with this entirely. As far as I know, the best data the rest of us have is Google Trends. And based on that, it really does look like Liquid Glass elicited the largest negative reaction that Apple has ever had to an OS release. "How to Switch to Android" hit 3x its all time peak, "iPhone revert update", hit 4x its all-time peak, "iPhone slow" hit 8x its all time peak, "iPhone bad now" hit 5x its all tim…

There are probably other parts as well. Dissatisfaction against Apple for App Store has been high, may be for some Liquid Glass was the last straw. Omarchy had the highest number of Apple user switch to Linux. 100,000 downloads may be small numbers by Apple standards but even if half of that were developers coming from Apple Mac I think it is a pretty big shift. The worst part, intentionally or not they left macOS 26…

> The worst part, intentionally or not they left macOS 26 as the last release for all the Intel user.

I cannot believe that Apple is that insidious to have planned a milquetoast release to be the last one for Intel, but I totally believe that Apple is insidious enough to see how they can benefit from it.

That they're literally marketing macOS 27 as we've listened to your complaints about 26 completely deflates anyone's interest in running macOS 26 on Intel. Their Intel users are being marketed hard to switch to Apple Silicon.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by philistine »

rafram wrote: post #534
ksec wrote: post #466

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There are probably other parts as well. Dissatisfaction against Apple for App Store has been high, may be for some Liquid Glass was the last straw. Omarchy had the highest number of Apple user switch to Linux. 100,000 downloads may be small numbers by Apple standards but even if half of that were developers coming from Apple Mac I think it is a pretty big shift. The worst part, intentionally or not they left macOS 26…

> Omarchy had the highest number of Apple user switch to Linux. DHH's dotfiles repo is not a viable replacement for macOS, I promise you. Linux is fun, but macOS is already enough of a *nix for most developers, and it works well without much tinkering.

You just have to constantly tell the LLM to give you zsh commands, not bash ones.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by rafram »

philistine wrote: post #542
rafram wrote: post #534

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> Omarchy had the highest number of Apple user switch to Linux. DHH's dotfiles repo is not a viable replacement for macOS, I promise you. Linux is fun, but macOS is already enough of a *nix for most developers, and it works well without much tinkering.

You just have to constantly tell the LLM to give you zsh commands, not bash ones.

You can easily install bash or any other shell on macOS, and set it as your default with chsh, same as on any other *nix. (Also easy to make the harness use a non-login shell by aliasing it with a $SHELL override.)

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by dmktNY »

dybber wrote: post #331
brianmcnulty wrote: post #312

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No, it's more that those apps needs to be able to make all of the tool calls Siri AI can make, which would allow third-party developers to collect data they shouldn't have access to. App developers can already access the on-device foundational models through an API, but I don't think many developers want to do that because there are better models.

Apple don’t want you to be able to say “Hi Alexa” or “Ok Google” to your iPhone, and wake it up. We have all kinds of data access controls, these could probably also be built around Siri and competitors.

Anymore than Amazon or Google want you to say "Hey Siri" to wake up their devices.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by spacedcowboy »

saagarjha wrote: post #529
spacedcowboy wrote: post #514

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It is, however, how a lot of Silicon Valley speak. Source: lived there for a couple of decades. And to an outside ear, it does just come across as completely fake. Jobs' "reality distortion field" was just the conviction in his voice as he spoke. There is no, none, nada, zero conviction in the way Apple deliver these missives. It reeks of corporate America and is therefore not trustworthy. I'm also kind of surprised…

That's how people speak in presentations. If you talked like that in normal conversation you'd very quickly get odd looks.

We are talking about presentations, though, right ? I thought that was taken as read.

Even outside presentations, "awesome", "super-awesome", etc. were far more prevalent than one might expect within the reality I lived in, though.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by phatskat »

thewebguyd wrote: post #484
kalleboo wrote: post #482

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How did you do it? I had to set up a Windows 11 Pro install 2 months ago and there was no way to get past the Microsoft Account requirement, I had to create an account, I tried everything (setting up with no network device attached, etc)

Choose "Other options" then click "Domain join instead" you don't actually have to join a domain here, it just has to create a local account. That option won't be present on Home edition though just a heads up. You can also use an autoattend.xml file on the install ISO to set up a local account ( https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ ) amongst other things like removing all the windows store apps, etc.

I personally would never have thought to go the Domain route, so I suppose you technically -can- have a local user but they don’t seem to surface the option.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by phatskat »

wpm wrote: post #505
tikkabhuna wrote: post #443

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Is the end state that countries regulate app stores and approve apps? Apple has legit concerns. The majority of users would happily sell their own data for some tiny benefit. However, like you say, Apple has a perceived or real conflict of interest. Are Apple being benevolent or acting in their own interests?

They are doing both.

That’s how I read this too - I specifically use Apple because I can get what I need to done with little hassle, I can routinely use the same phone for _years_ and not even think about upgrading (my last upgrade was “forced as my iPhone was stolen), and I have a much higher confidence in Apple not being crappy with my data vs Google.

I know there are alternative phones that are more open, and I recognize that the level of ease and comfort I get from a big name phone requires some of those trade-offs. Linux was my desktop of choice and probably would be again if my employer allowed it, but I don’t necessarily want to deal with all the tiny sharp edges of Linux on a mobile device.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by phatskat »

SebastianKra wrote: post #251
peterspath wrote: post #207

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It’s the DMA regulation that forces Apple to give the same access as they have to other AI chat apps. Once it leaves the device Apple does not know what those other ai chat apps will do with the gathered data. > Siri AI is private by design and deeply integrated across Apple’s platforms using on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of iPhone into the cloud. However, unde…

If you view it like that, any argument against openness could be made in the name of privacy. With that interpretation, the Mac is terrible for privacy as you could just chose to install an app that reads your hard drive. "We can't bring Time Machine to Europe, because we would have to allow other backup solutions, and that would mean other backups would have unrestricted access to your data" Maybe there's more to it…

The average user might see a Siri-AI + Spotify integration as “I can ask Siri to make me a playlist”, while under the hood, Spotify would have access to _all_ of the user’s data and the ability to act upon installed apps. I can understand wanting to have better privacy controls in place before allowing that - will Apple do it is the question.

As far as the backup software, the analogy doesn’t hold for me: there’s an expectation that it will have access to your hard disk. There’s also an expectation that you can disconnect your internet and still back up your hard disk - can’t exfiltrate data if you’re offline.

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