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M-series chip might be the biggest leap in newer time in computers. I think that’s pretty well made by Apple at least.
What did Meta innovate? AI profiles?
They’ve made great innovations in creating right wing echo chambers.
Not even Twitter can keep up
I mean, they are a close second. Meta is maintaining a comfortable lead, but give Twitter a few more Bluesky hemorrhage cycles.
Considering the latest changes at Meta, it seems their latest innovation is to transform social media into antisocial media.
antisocial media.
always_has_been.meme
Just because meta sucks doesn’t let apple off the hook for anticompetitive behavior
Why are the capitalists so complainy?
“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps 😤, facts don’t care about your feelings 😤, Apple is mean make them stop it 😭”
Oooo who has more money to throw at chancellor trump to make sure their business becomes the Brawndo of the new age???
Have they ever “invented anything great”?
I guess original iPod was an unexpected shot in the right direction. And PPC Macs were fine, I guess. That opinion is based solely on the appearances and the fact that PPC good, Intel bad, Motorola fossil.
Apple? The iPhone was kind of a big deal. It wasn’t completely original, but nothing ever is. It made the smartphone worthwhile for the average consumer in a way that Palm and BlackBerry and others simply didn’t, and directly led to the mobile ecosystem we have now.
Obviously there were plenty of players in the space but Apple had right combination of features and potential market due to the popularity of the iPod.
Edit: Oh, also the M-series processor. That’s pretty great.
The iPhone was kind of a big deal. It wasn’t completely original, but nothing ever is. It made the smartphone worthwhile for the average consumer in a way that Palm and BlackBerry and others simply didn’t, and directly led to the mobile ecosystem we have now.
That’s more terrible than great.
Edit: Oh, also the M-series processor. That’s pretty great.
ARM is its own thing.
That’s more terrible than great.
They didn’t call Alexander the Great that because he was a good dude. “Great” doesn’t inherently mean beneficial. The iPhone changed the world. As did Apple stealing their concept for a GUI and cursor from PARC and running with it.
ARM is its own thing.
Sure, but not every ARM processor is the M-series. The M-series proving the capacity of running a desktop OS on ARM in a meaningful way was important.
OK, I agree that it changed the world. But Nokia getting sabotaged played a role.
I’m still not sure how much different modern processor-building is between ISA’s beyond the decoder and legacy limitations, which are harder on Intel architecture than on ARM.
I suppose M-things are cool, so a milestone, and a welcome one, but, apart from Hackintosh builders, it doesn’t raise the demand for ARM machines a lot. The demand for Apple machines on ARM - yes, since they’ve gotten a new technical cool factor, which hasn’t happened for some time before that transition.
They sometimes do good things which become fashion, and they do bad things which become fashion (I still hate widescreens on personal computers ; you either get distracted by what’s above and below the screen, or get anxious from the sides being in peripheral vision zone ; anyway, we still scroll vertically).
What’s really rich about Meta and Zuckerberg’s incessant complaining about being restricted by Apple’s rules for third party software on Apple’s platforms is that Meta doesn’t allow third parties any sort of access to their successful platforms.
This is a bit of a false equivalency; “Apple’s” successful platform is a general-purpose computing device owned by the user while Meta’s are hosted services.
These traditionally have different expectations, with game consoles being the exception. Occulus devices seem more like game consoles to me, while iPhones are closer to general-purpose computers with a few weird restrictions. I don’t like either, but I see game consoles as less problematic because their use case isn’t important.
If you go by usage, I’d say the iPhone is primarily an entertainment device.
Meta has been promoting their Quest 3 AR desktop mode for productivity.
By time spent, the iPhone is probably used for media consumption more than anything else, but media consumption is not just entertainment.
If there is going be insistence on platforms being open there shouldn’t be these distinctions.
All of these devices are capable of general purpose computing at a hardware level, phones, tablets, PCs, headsets are now very similar and generalised in that regard. I don’t see why a phone platform should be forced to be open while a games console gets to remain closed, when there is now only a hair’s breadth separating an Xbox from a Windows PC.
Apple should add “console” into their branding to solve all their problems.
The all new iPhone 17+ Console.
There isn’t any significant difference between a Switch and an iPhone
Isn’t the daringfireball blog a de facto front for Apple PR?
Uh… it’s a guy’s blog.
A guy who nearly always defends Apple’s controversial decisions. It’s probably not reasonable to treat him as neutral or fair in a dispute between Apple and any other entity.
Oh no, a guy has an opinion! Get him!
It’s fine that he has an opinion. It’s even fine that he’s a fanboy, but important for people evaluating what he says about Apple to know that he has a decades long record of being barely more neutral than the company’s PR department.
Uh… it’s a guy’s blog.
That “guy” is among the best known die hard Apple fanboys.
