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Ethan Kaplan

@ethank
28 posts
2024-10-01
Sonos has reached out to me and I'm working with them on my issues.  I have a multisubnet network and 12 Sonos devices.  It doesn't work so well right now.
2024-10-01 View on X
The Verge

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand Sonos' software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle

The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.

2024-08-06
Apple makes a lot of money from Google, but if you think they don't have a few red team projects going to do their own search engine, using a different one, etc or acquiring one..... well, they do.
2024-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple's AI shift could move some searches to Siri and AI chatbots instead of web browsers and Google, softening the blow from the US v. Google antitrust ruling

Apple makes a lot of money from Google, but if you think they don't have a few red team projects going to do their own search engine, using a different one, etc or acquiring one..... well, they do.
2024-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers

Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …

2024-06-14
It's more and more evident that LLMs are a UI/UX/HCI paradigm that needs a cascading of personal to world knowledge context to be useful and trusted.  With that in mind, OpenAI and Apple is going to be a force.
2024-06-14 View on X
Wired

Apple's WWDC demos, with the integration of generative AI across its products, show the value of seeing AI as a feature rather than a standalone app or device

what's not to love? Michael J. Miller / PCMag : Apple Intelligence Satisfies Demand, But Doesn't Change the Game M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : “AI” is Apple's “Voldemort” Ben Thompson ...

2024-05-26
“Apple is late to AI”
2024-05-26 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.

2024-05-25
“Apple is late to AI”
2024-05-25 View on X
The Verge

Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”

Social media is abuzz with examples of Google's new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.

“Apple is late to AI”
2024-05-25 View on X
Business Insider

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored

Step 1: Google rolls out a new AI-powered product.  Step 2: Users quickly find the product's flaws and point them out with social-media posts, which become news stories.

2024-04-27
I could see Apple buying perplexity.
2024-04-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

- The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google  — Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update

2024-03-09
Apple is totally missing out by not (checks notes) launching an image generator that makes violent, sexist and diverse Nazi imagery.  Not everyone needs a stable diffusion generator.  Case in point.
2024-03-09 View on X
CNBC

Microsoft makes changes to Copilot, including blocking requests to create images of teens playing with assault rifles, following a staffer's letter to the FTC

https://www.cnbc.com/... Bluesky: Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : The disappointing thing is that Microsoft internal channels should have kicked in before the employee h...

2024-02-03
The Mac virtual desktop in the Vision Pro is some magic shit.  A 4K widescreen display floating in space, full resolution, no latency.  That's some engineering.
2024-02-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees

Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”

2023-11-19
Somewhere in Redmond Satya Nadella is angrily installing Google Chrome to join a Meet.
2023-11-19 View on X
The Verge

Source: OpenAI's board had agreed to resign and let Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return, but has since waffled; Altman would want significant governance changes

The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

2023-11-18
So Apple is out, giving cover to every other smaller brand (which is every other brand).  In global corporate Slacks, comms is carefully crafting statements and many will dump them when the market closes in one hour.  Apple doesn't worry about market close.
2023-11-18 View on X
CNBC

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Lionsgate, and Comcast suspend ads on X, joining other media and tech companies

- Apple has paused its online advertising campaigns on X, formerly Twitter, after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.

So Apple is out, giving cover to every other smaller brand (which is every other brand).  In global corporate Slacks, comms is carefully crafting statements and many will dump them when the market closes in one hour.  Apple doesn't worry about market close.
2023-11-18 View on X
Axios

Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content

companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...

When the normally milquetoast as fuck CNBC says it out loud it's trouble coming.  Only thing missing is a stock photo of a trading desk guy with his head in his hands.
2023-11-18 View on X
Axios

Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content

companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...

When the normally milquetoast as fuck CNBC says it out loud it's trouble coming.  Only thing missing is a stock photo of a trading desk guy with his head in his hands.
2023-11-18 View on X
CNBC

Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Lionsgate, and Comcast suspend ads on X, joining other media and tech companies

- Apple has paused its online advertising campaigns on X, formerly Twitter, after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.

2023-11-10
This seems like a lot of hoops to jump through to do essentially what I can do with AirPods and a service (for now, although likely native next year) in iOS.  I mapped the action button to take dictation and send to GPT4.  It's making a lot of work in place of something that is becoming less work over time. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-11-10 View on X
Wired

Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024

Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do.  It's worth celebrating that there's...

So looking more at Humane, I've determined AirPods and this Shortcut does more or less the same thing.
2023-11-10 View on X
Wired

Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024

Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do.  It's worth celebrating that there's...

2023-11-09
This seems like a lot of hoops to jump through to do essentially what I can do with AirPods and a service (for now, although likely native next year) in iOS.  I mapped the action button to take dictation and send to GPT4.  It's making a lot of work in place of something that is becoming less work over time. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-11-09 View on X
The Verge

Documents detail Humane's $699 Ai Pin: a $24/month subscription, including a phone number, data, cloud storage, and access to Microsoft and OpenAI AI models

It's scheduled to launch the Pin on Thursday, but The Verge has obtained documents detailing practically everything about the device ahead of its official launch.

So looking more at Humane, I've determined AirPods and this Shortcut does more or less the same thing.
2023-11-09 View on X
The Verge

Documents detail Humane's $699 Ai Pin: a $24/month subscription, including a phone number, data, cloud storage, and access to Microsoft and OpenAI AI models

It's scheduled to launch the Pin on Thursday, but The Verge has obtained documents detailing practically everything about the device ahead of its official launch.

2023-09-05
I simply can't rationalise why anyone would post a single tweet on that site.  At this point it's a tacit endorsement of antisemitism.  And not a subtle one.  That site now stands for it from the top down.
2023-09-05 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk threatens to file a defamation suit against the ADL for “falsely accusing” X and him of being antisemitic, and blames the ADL for X's US ad sales drop

In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League.