In 2021, I built the first real-time video generation AI app for Apple Silicon. It was revolutionary - until it started melting iPhones. When my demo literally burned Sam Altman's hand, I discovered that Apple's on-device AI hardware was not designed for modern AI.
Look inside any M-series Mac today. Nearly half the silicon - the Neural Engine cores - sits idle, designed for the pre-transformer era of AI. Meanwhile, my ninety-five-year-old father struggles with a seventy-five-inch screen he can barely see, finding brief moments of magic only when speaking to Siri.
The problem isn't just technical - it's ideological. Apple's privacy stance prevents them from gathering the real-world data needed for truly adaptive interfaces. But there's a solution: AppleCare Platinum, a premium human support service that could evolve into a radical new kind of UI - by serving as an Enders Game for AI computer use training data.
bigyabai•4h ago
I don't see why Apple couldn't just renege their privacy agreement and tell their userbase to pound sand. Not like they'd have any real alternatives anyways.
tuatoru•2h ago
Apple could afford to hire a bunch (10K? 50K?) of people to participate in multi-year user studies to mostly sort this out.
bigyabai•2h ago
Or they could afford to lose ~10-50k lifelong customers to accrue the data required to onboard the next million users. I think people vastly overestimate how many Apple customers consider privacy a dealbreaker for their purchase.
MediaSquirrel•4h ago
Look inside any M-series Mac today. Nearly half the silicon - the Neural Engine cores - sits idle, designed for the pre-transformer era of AI. Meanwhile, my ninety-five-year-old father struggles with a seventy-five-inch screen he can barely see, finding brief moments of magic only when speaking to Siri.
The problem isn't just technical - it's ideological. Apple's privacy stance prevents them from gathering the real-world data needed for truly adaptive interfaces. But there's a solution: AppleCare Platinum, a premium human support service that could evolve into a radical new kind of UI - by serving as an Enders Game for AI computer use training data.
bigyabai•4h ago
tuatoru•2h ago
bigyabai•2h ago