In the following decade [since 2014] of Federighi’s leadership, many observers noted a marked decline in the quality[12][13][14][15] of Apple’s software products.

when questioned, you have not given a source that john apple is more pro-AI

in fact the article you posted believes he’ll continue tim apple’s path:

“By choosing a hardware leader in John Ternus, Apple may be signaling that it still believes the future of AI will run through tightly integrated devices, not just software,” said Timothy Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame.

i don’t think locally-run AI is enshittification since unlike e.g. satellite connection, local LLM does not have additional costs of connecting to a remote service

Have the comments here read the article? It’s arguing that the CEOs themselves have spread the doomer narrative and are now being molotov’d as a result. The subject of the title is/includes Altman, hence the Altman cover photo. This was way way better than I expected of Gizmodo (bravo Gizmodo), warning us that execs are only toning down their AI dooming for self-protection.

Whatever happens, it feels like the AI executives have painted themselves into a corner. They’ve told everyone their product has the potential to destroy everything. They were the doomers, if we want to call it that, at least when it was convenient. And now we seem to be entering a different era where the same people who told us about the dangers of AI try to get us to look exclusively at what they claim are enormous benefits for society; so far, with little to show.

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Each screen can now switch between any of the system’s virtual desktops independently

Huge for multi-monitor!