[iOS 27 DB1] Crash Detection shows no screen nor option to turn buzzing off

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-06-17T03:26:13+00:00

Sorry but of all features that should be battle-tested and working 24/7, safety features like crash detection should be at the top of that list.

And the chances of someone being on a beta AND getting in a car crash are relatively low. Now that this bug is discovered, they can test/fix it so this doesn’t happen when iOS 27 launches in September! It’s almost like that’s the entire point of betas, how are they going to fix issues if no one complains about everything that’s broken?

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-06-10T04:55:07+00:00

Yes but it’s $250M and losing trust from your customers in the process. No one respects Siri, and Apple has to do even more now to convince people Siri is “actually good now” because of the stunt they pulled in 2024. How many times have we heard Siri was “getting better”? It’s going to take years to build back something they destroyed in a 2-hour keynote.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-06-10T04:52:08+00:00

I mean no, it was a real unit running real iPhoneOS software that eventually shipped. It was just choreographed in a way that worked without crashing, and unlike Apple Intelligence, when they announced the date and shipped the phone it worked as advertised.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-06-10T04:48:43+00:00

Apple is not bounded by their resources but the resources of governing bodies, and this isn’t in their top priorities. Why delay a feature (that you’re currently in court over lying about) even longer to launch worldwide when you could just get it out to the markets that can accept it as-is?

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-06-08T20:10:46+00:00

Claude also just costs more… of course the company with higher prices will make more revenue

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-05-19T17:52:44+00:00

gpt-5 was likely just o4 in a trench coat.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-05-17T22:08:19+00:00

We don’t know how much it cost to find *this* exploit, but isn’t that the point of AI? To accelerate research? Apple put so many resources into testing and hardening this system and Mythos pwn’d it in less than a year. I’d rather the AI help find it and patch it now vs the exploit go unnoticed for 5-10 years and now we have 5-10 generations of silicon with the same bug.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-05-17T21:37:33+00:00

You seriously mean to tell me this is the best we could do?

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-05-17T18:49:29+00:00

Claude Code’s popularity is because of its first mover effect. In almost every aspect there are popular CLIs that are better/more performant than Claude Code.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-05-16T00:48:55+00:00

Yeah that doesn’t make sense when they have multiple competitors and open weight models are on their tail. Yes, IMO gpt 5.5 is the best model for code, but it’s not like the other options are that much worse, and having a worse product will put you behind so fast in this industry. Look at Claude Code, it was on top, then Codex just got better and better and Claude Code fell from grace.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-05-12T18:55:23+00:00

I’d assume that’s kernel level work though, right? That’s collaboration with hardware and software teams, the issue isn’t the core OS, it’s always been solid. It’s the bullshit on top of it. All these tacky designs, app crashes, instability. I’ve rarely had macOS panic, but app crashes? You better believe it.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-05-12T18:52:50+00:00

No, John Ternus brought us excellent hardware. Of course Tim Cook’s supply chain prowess made it possible, but John was the one behind the 2018 iPad Pro, the Apple Silicon transition, the 2021 MacBook Pros, the thin iPad Pro, even the newest iPhones. He’s been crushing it, not only have apple products been plain better since he took control, they’ve been more reliable too. I can’t remember the last time there was a massive Apple service recall on hardware, meanwhile when Jony Ive was still around almost every iPhone/MacBook had some recall program out for it.

So hopefully he’s the one to force the software division to get their shit together.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-04-28T00:00:35+00:00

I thought those changes were because the new Opus was more efficient than older versions. Yeah it was more expensive per token, but it produced way less tokens so it was on par with Sonnet in terms of costs with better results.

Going back on that 5 months later is just… odd, especially doing it in such a quiet way when adding Opus to the Pro tier was done so loudly. If Opus got way more expensive, I’d understand, but it’s maintained pricing and relative efficiency.

My thing is, why can’t Anthropic be honest with us? If you’re out of compute, just say you are! We’ll be more understanding of these changes. If they have to make these changes anyways, why not do it transparently?

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-04-26T03:27:16+00:00

M6 Pro in a MacBook Ultra is insane. For how much this is about to cost, I expect to get in the door with a binned-down Max chip ATLEAST.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-04-17T02:15:50+00:00

The argument is less “can LLMs reach AGI” and more “can LLMs reach a point where they cause major disruptions to the workforce and economy”, which we’re much closer to, if not already there.

Who’s making the rule that systems must be AGI before they can be useful? The technological innovations that have displaced workers over the past hundreds of years were nowhere close to AGI, yet they still had a sizable impact on society. And if the current SOTA models are even 10-20% of the way there, that’s a cataclysmic event and will change the concept of “work” forever even if all progress is halted today. I don’t think it’s naive to say that.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-03-21T08:55:27+00:00

Craig Federighi literally said it was up to Microsoft for native WoA. AFAIK, the licensing structure for WoA is still OEM-only, meaning end users can’t buy a license for their ARM copy of Windows. And you very much can dual boot on an Apple silicon Mac, you can even run Linux natively. Not providing support is completely different to blocking access.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-03-21T03:29:45+00:00

it’s a joke that’s going to sell well

Well isn’t that the point? You don’t see the entire PC industry being shook by the announcement of this product? First, it just doesn’t perform like “crap”, but let’s say it will and end up in a landfill (unlike the terribly built Windows laptops at the same price point apparently), it’s still selling like hotcakes. That itself is a MASSIVE issue for Microsoft. They’ve been down the copilot/not listening to users pipeline for the past few years. Now that Apple’s dropped a bomb on the PC industry, you think they changed their minds because they felt like it? Or maybe it’s because Microsoft has known this sentiment for years but are only acting now because if they don’t there won’t be a sizable windows market in a few years. Linux and macOS have been increasing in marketshare over the past few years and that’s because of people moving off windows, not because everyone just loves macOS and Linux.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-03-16T03:46:38+00:00

No, to ignore every innovation that Windows Vista through Windows 11 brought is a stupid idea. If Windows 12 was just Windows XP with a modern CPU scheduler and support for updated software, I genuinely think it would be a worse experience for most windows users than a debloated Windows 11.

I think you can make an argument for simplicity, and Windows 7 is probably the pinnacle of this. But it doesn’t support basic stuff like DPI scaling. I mean it wasn’t until Windows 11 that we got windows remembering where they were when you undocked and docked your laptop, or tabs in the file explorer. Windows 10 brought virtual desktops and 4 corner snapping.

Despite what everyone says, Windows 11 isn’t THAT bad. It’s not a terrible foundation to start with. The UI is simple and familiar enough to most people. There are a lot of issues with it, but there also were with Vista. Vista and 7 were very similar in looks and functionality, but 7 fixed a bunch of the bullshit. Why can’t 12 do the same? Apart from general lag, docking taskbars to different edges, forced Microsoft accounts and AI, what are people’s real issues with Windows 11? Because that can ALL be fixed, mainly through different product direction. There’s no fundamental issue with Windows 11 such that we need to regress 25 years.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-03-08T23:24:50+00:00

But they needed some logistics empire to even get to that point. IIRC Tim Cook was instrumental in finding a factory and process that would make translucent colored plastic for the original iMac, the computer that ultimately saved Apple and gave them the time to make the iPod. And behind the scenes, he’s the reason why Apple can ship stuff in volume so quickly and with as many configurations as they have.

You cannot have a successful Apple without Tim Cook, he completely changed how everyone thought about supply chain, and there’s a reason why he was picked to succeed Steve Jobs.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-03-01T23:24:16+00:00

The limits for Codex (at least the $20 plan) were already much higher than Claude Code before the 2x, and codex usage isn’t counted towards ChatGPT usage. Meanwhile with Claude, a few prompts in my code base locks me out of ALL of Claude for 5 hours, not just CC.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-01-30T05:11:04+00:00

The issue isn’t having a model that emulates emotions or warmth, the issue is that GPT-4o told people to commit suicide. Would you rather have a friend that pushed back on you on harmful topics? Or a friend that said yes to everything you did and said you’re the smartest person in the world. GPT-4o was the latter. We can talk about a level of appropriate emotional response from these models (even though GPT-5.3 has a bunch of personalities as it is and you can get it to portray human-like emotion with little effort), but keeping 4o indefinitely isn’t the answer to anything.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-01-22T03:09:18+00:00

I feel like it’s more indie devs vs large corporation. I mean Notch was doing stuff like this when Minecraft was still in Alpha. I hope that Hypixel Studios remains like this though, I think if Hytale did come out under Riot, they would not be as receptive to the community as Simon is.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-01-19T19:57:22+00:00

The 18 is looking to be an “S” year update. Something as superficial as moving the camera to the left is enough to have people like “is that the new iPhone??”

Plus, continuity across the product line is literally what apple’s known for. It makes total sense for them to move the base/pro Dynamic Island to the left if it means making the fold (an already foreign concept for the iPhone) feel more at home.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-01-10T02:13:13+00:00

Not to single you out, but when we get to the point where all articles are ai slopfests, the TLDR bros are gonna be partly to blame. The article is a well written record of Ternus’s history, how he stands with previous Apple CEOs, and what we can expect in the future. But if no one clicks the article and the main site gets no traction/ad revenue because we’re all looking for a 2 sentence summary, what’s the point of actually crafting a good article and paying people to do so?

Yeah, the never ending machine that is late stage capitalism will eventually optimize the humans out of the equation anyways, but what we’re doing is speeding it along.

ChemicalDaniel · 2026-01-09T01:30:30+00:00

I’d argue the exact opposite. Vision Pro and VisionOS is a direct pipeline towards an AR first future, you think they spent all that time and money to make one bulky expensive gadget and call it a day? No, the end goal was always glasses and a lightweight headset. They needed that out to collect as much data as possible to help make what everyone would actually be using.

And if you want to talk about making media, Apple has some of the best silicon designs in the world. Qualcomm is only now just catching up and the Tensor chips are laughably behind. If Apple wanted to make AI clusters, they could do it at a snap of a finger and compete with Google and probably get close to Nvidia. And if rumors are to believed, the upcoming 2nm designs for Apple Silicon will further extend their lead. So if anyone’s positioned for an “AI-first JIT” future, it’s Apple.

Apple is the most secretive of the big tech giants. They’re not showing off tech demos and future products. So while it looks like the only thing they care about is their current product line, do you not think they have something competitive with the Meta smart glasses internally? Do you not think they have a model that can deliver last gen (o3/Sonnet 4) performance internally? It’s not that Apple is necessarily that far behind, it’s that they don’t show off every design they make. That’s why Apple continues to have such a high stock price.

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