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Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For this comment, I want to be absolutely clear that I do not give a shit about AI, and that it in no way factored into my decision to buy this iPhone 16 Pro Max.

With that disclaimer out of the way:

I very much look forward to a class action lawsuit. Apple advertised specific features as coming ‘very soon’ and gave short timeframes when asked directly. And they basically did not deliver on those advertising promises. Basically, I think there’s a good case to be made here that Apple knowingly engaged in false advertising in order to sell a phone that otherwise would not have sold as well. Those promised AI features WERE a deciding factor for a lot of people to upgrade to an iPhone 16.

So, I’ll be looking forward to some form of compensation. It’s the principle of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Apple will be pissed at you now shareholders! Why would you do such a thing? sue them? really ? Apple is a good company, would never do that! /S

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Siri still struggles with toggling my lights with voice commands, after nearly 8 years of tearful screaming at my HomePod.

I want to see 1 Infinite Loop transformed into a giant toilet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Even the home app struggles to turn on my lights and I don’t know if it’s Apple or the hue bridge loses connection.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Me: Siri turn lights on

Siri: Now playing Bon Jovi’s “Wanted dead or alive”

Me: Siri shut the fuck up, you have one job, do that job

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I. Am. GeNiuS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Based shareholders

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

Apple could have just...not gone for AI at all, they're now in an awkward spot where they know it would make their product worse to implement it, yet they promised anyways

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Apple professional management have run the company down with their many foolish decisions. Feels similar to how Microsoft became worse annd worse after XP.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you can trace the management downturn of American companies back to a change in MBA curriculum.

You can see when they started getting hired after the shift. Where they were taught that as long as your department is doing well and has positive numbers, LITERALLY nothing else matters. The company could be crashing and burning around you, you might even be causing it, but as long as those numbers are going up, you'll quickly get hired at another company. Because every single iota of their education is about pleasing investors who only care about money now, and not potential money in a few years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

They go on about long-term investment and then you find out that what they're actually talking about is things that will start returning a profit in 6 months. Half a year is long-term to them.

If you have a long-term view and want to make quite a lot of money you probably couldn't do better than shorting Apple stock. They never innovate anymore (every iPhone is literally the same as the previous years), and they spend huge amounts of money on failed projects (Vision Pro), meanwhile they continue not to fix ongoing serious issues (Safari).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

After W2K I didn't like XP all that much, it felt slower and was too "Chinese-looking" (how it could be said in my language in those years). Now I'm nostalgic over chromecore aesthetic and that look, silver Game Boy, silver PS2, silver SW Phantom Menace interiors. Or matte black as an alternative, too looking very cool. Or at least that "normal" matte white. But in UIs - XP felt a bit too much, tiring for my eyes. Still, XP with default blue theme and jump-to-lightspeed wallpaper is what home and nostalgie are for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they'd say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in "Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy". Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It's rather that back then you'd sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In English we used to use the word "Scotch", like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

And the phonetic transcription of that is how we still call that in Russian.

Well, with "Chinese" in Russian it didn't stick. I'm somewhat sad, I think certain political conditions also make the Russian language poorer and weaker with time. In 00s I, despite being autistic, could somewhat "feel the wave" of the people around me. Now it just ... feels as if someone tracks and tries to slowly kill all the good things, as if just being in control is not enough for those people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Scotch tape is a brand name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

And it was named that because it was cheap tape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ah. Thanks, that's insightful :)

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