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Francisco Tolmasky

@tolmasky
74 posts
2024-06-11
Most people are hoping AI will make Siri better, but personally I'm hoping generative AI will give us a more lifelike Tim Cook that will finally push him out of the uncanny valley. #wwdc24
2024-06-11 View on X
Apple Machine Learning Research

Apple details two Apple Intelligence language models: ~3B parameter on-device and a larger model on Apple silicon servers available with Private Cloud Compute

At the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, we introduced Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system integrated deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.

Most people are hoping AI will make Siri better, but personally I'm hoping generative AI will give us a more lifelike Tim Cook that will finally push him out of the uncanny valley. #wwdc24
2024-06-11 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple unveils a new Siri powered by Apple Intelligence: more personal, on-screen awareness, a new third-party app API, and more, coming “over the next year”

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :

2023-09-13
Anyone who thinks Apple is behind in machine learning hasn't listened to these LLM-generated #AppleEvent scripts.
2023-09-13 View on X
The Block

The US sentences Karl Greenwood, who co-founded OneCoin in 2014 alongside Ruja Ignatova, to 20 years and orders him to pay $300M; Greenwood had pleaded guilty

- Karl Sebastian Greenwood, who co-founded OneCoin in 2014 with the so-called “Crypto Queen” Ruja Ignatova, was sentenced to 20 years on Tuesday.

2022-10-23
What, no special event for this? https://www.macrumors.com/...
2022-10-23 View on X
MacRumors

Apple plans to expand ads to the App Store's main Today tab and the “You Might Also Like” section of app listings globally on October 25, except for China

In an email to developers this week, Apple announced that app-related ads will begin appearing in the App Store's main Today tab and in a …

2022-07-30
As a *user*, I hate this. Remember when a selling point of the @AppStore was that it wasn't the ad-infested web? Turns out Apple only had a problem with *other people's ads*. More and more the @AppStore feels like Google's ad-filled search results page, minus the relevant results https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-30 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages

ads on individual app pages—shows lawmakers and regulators must press ahead Mike Peterson / AppleInsider : Apple testing new App Store ad placements very soon Nick Heer / Pixel Env...

2022-06-07
Apple's response to iPad complaints: 1. Sure, you can only do one thing at once, but now MANY people can only do one thing at once, TOGETHER™ 2. Work? Gaming is better than ever on the iPad! 3. Uh, Lists in Contacts? 4. You can always seamlessly transfer to the Mac. #wwdc22
2022-06-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Apple announces iPadOS 16 with a Weather app, Stage Manager multitasking, collaboration via the Messages app, Passkeys support, better undo and redo, and more

it's another mystery meat UI with weird hidden edge gestures and ‘smart’ behaviors https://twitter.com/... Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith : So, Stage Manager on iPadOS 16...

2022-05-09
I was way more sympathetic towards Apple's disdain for remote work back when they actually did creative stuff. I don't think everyone needs to be in the same room to come up with revolutionary ideas like “hey, what if we switch to a monthly subscription model?”
2022-05-09 View on X
@zoeschiffer

Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”

2022-03-17
We're never not in this state. I think at some point you just realize there is no “plan”. It's not going anywhere. It is what it is, an easy way to use existing components (iOS, Apple silicon) to get a fairly reliable number of extra sales. [Quote tweets @stroughtonsmith from 2017: “re-evaluate in June"]
2022-03-17 View on X
The Verge

iPad Air (2022) review: fast with the M1 chip and great display but Touch ID is not as convenient as Face ID and the front camera is awkward in landscape mode

We're never not in this state. I think at some point you just realize there is no “plan”. It's not going anywhere. It is what it is, an easy way to use existing components (iOS, Apple silicon) to get a fairly reliable number of extra sales. [Quote tweets @stroughtonsmith from 2017: “re-evaluate in June"]
2022-03-17 View on X
The Verge

Hands-on with Universal Control: Apple's most impressive new feature in years that bridges the gap between macOS and iPadOS without requiring Apple peripherals

It's super cool, super niche, and Apple at its best  —  It's been a good month for Mac desktop setup aficionados.

2022-03-14
Also, this is what “Latest” looks like for me. It's just totally broken and completely blank. Oh, and scrolling or trying to interact with it at all immediately takes me back to home. For real, fuck the @twitter design / engineering / whatever team. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-14 View on X
The Verge

Twitter updated its iOS app to let users swipe between the algorithmic Home and reverse chronological Latest timelines but users can't make Latest the default

changed default, gradually hid the way to change it back under more and more obscure menus, then did away with algo entirely (or hid it so well that dumb old me couldn't find it an...

2022-03-13
Also, this is what “Latest” looks like for me. It's just totally broken and completely blank. Oh, and scrolling or trying to interact with it at all immediately takes me back to home. For real, fuck the @twitter design / engineering / whatever team. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-13 View on X
The Verge

Twitter updated its iOS app to let users swipe between the algorithmic Home and reverse chronological Latest timelines but users can't make Latest the default

You won't be able to default to the chronological timeline  —  Twitter is rolling out a change that, frustratingly …

2022-01-30
I don't get it, isn't this the way apps have always been? I've certainly never discovered an app organically in the AppStore... https://www.macrumors.com/...
2022-01-30 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : Source: Apple Developer .

2022-01-28
Hyper focused on watches, phones, computers, tablets, a credit card, book store, the App Store, music store, original television programming and movies, speakers, video game publishing, worldwide 3D maps, personal assistants, VR, and a car. Just goes to show, focus is the key! https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-28 View on X
Apple

Apple reports Q1 revenue of $123.9B, up 11% YoY, net income of $34.6B, up from $28.8B YoY, Services sales of $19.5B, up from $15.8B YoY, iPhone sales of $71.6B

Revenue up 11 percent to new all-time record  —  iPhone, Mac, Wearables, and Services revenue reach new all-time highs

2021-09-18
One thing that baffles me every time this happens, is that I wouldn't *want* this responsibility if I was Apple. I'd want to stay distraction free, focused on fun stuff like AR or new iPhone cameras, not getting needlessly sucked into heavy decisions about international politics.
2021-09-18 View on X
New York Times

Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election

The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.

Unlike with the Mac, a platform that was already known for its security, they've specifically taken on the mantle of *sole moral arbiters* of all app-related content on the platform, guaranteeing they'd be at the center of any digital political controversy in the future. Why?
2021-09-18 View on X
New York Times

Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election

The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.

As @TimSweeneyEpic points out, if iOS was as open as just about every computing platform before it, this same set of circumstances would be unfortunate, sure, but it wouldn't be nearly as effective, and it would be much more justifiable by Apple as just a “business decision.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-18 View on X
New York Times

Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election

The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.

Just like during the Hong Kong protests, Apple has again been pressured to remove an app for political reasons. This time a tactical voting app in Russia. Without side-loading, the @AppStore becomes a single bottleneck for governments to censor dissent. https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-09-18 View on X
New York Times

Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election

The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.

We're past the point where giving Apple the benefit of the doubt can be interpreted as anything other than willful ignorance from a place of Western privilege. These aren't hypotheticals, we already have examples of Apple's policies failing people in other countries. 1/🧵
2021-09-18 View on X
New York Times

Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's app that coordinated protest voting, bowing to Russian pressure on the eve of an election

The app, from the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, vanished from online stores as polls opened in the parliamentary election it was designed to sway.

2021-08-12
Meanwhile, in a boardroom at Apple: “Maybe if we give the FBI even more access to iPhones we can make this whole antitrust thing go away.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Three US senators unveil the bipartisan Open App Markets Act, which would force app stores to allow sideloading and let developers use their own IAP systems

Legislation would place new limits on how Apple and Google app stores can operate  —  WASHINGTON—Senators introduced legislation Wednesday … Source: United States Senator … .

2021-07-08
This is how I “bizarrely” differ from others: I *want* Apple to compete on building experiences only they can. But only as long as there's an escape hatch — side loading — to force them with the true threat of competition to actually *do cool things* with those private APIs, etc. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-08 View on X
The Verge

Facebook-commissioned study by Comscore claims that most US iOS and Android users stick with preinstalled apps; Apple says the study is “seriously flawed”