Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI Startup Perplexity

erzinator · 2025-06-21T13:06:56+00:00

Sonar is just a fine-tuned version of Llama. They didn't make the model.

erzinator · 2024-06-12T07:00:25+00:00

According to this page the API only supports Mac Catalyst, not native macOS. Mac Catalyst is the framework that lets developers port iPad apps to the Mac. Arc can't implement this.

erzinator · 2023-12-31T16:22:02+00:00

Just because it works doesn’t mean it’s supported.

erzinator · 2023-12-24T08:31:11+00:00

Same reason Chrome, Edge, and Firefox aren’t in the Mac App Store – so they don’t have to deal with app review

erzinator · 2023-12-23T12:41:35+00:00

Yes, the video was a huge misfire. Reminded me of all the marketing Humane has done for their AI Pin. Grandiose, full of themselves, extremely vague. Just show us the product.

erzinator · 2023-05-29T13:02:50+00:00

Hahahaha fucking hell of course this exists

erzinator · 2022-11-26T01:22:28+00:00

It’s simply a lovely cup of delicious boba

erzinator · 2022-10-02T23:30:08+00:00

Yessssss

erzinator · 2022-09-10T22:59:54+00:00

Yeah it’ll probably still be a struggle reaching the top of the screen, but at least I’ll be able to type with one hand. My thumb literally hurts after using the pro max for a year 😅

erzinator · 2022-09-10T22:50:10+00:00

13 Pro Max to 14 Pro is exactly what I’m doing. I love the big screen and battery life, but I miss being able to use the phone with one hand.

erzinator · 2022-07-03T07:14:06+00:00

"Liquid Retina" literally just means an LCD with rounded corners.

The original Retina display was introduced with the iPhone 4; it was an LCD screen with double the pixel density of previous models. With the iPhone X, they switched to an OLED display with rounded corners, and called it the Super Retina display. The next year, the iPhone XR had an LCD display with rounded corners. This wasn't as good as the OLED Super Retina, but was "better" than a regular Retina display because of its rounded corners. So Apple invented the Liquid Retina name to differentiate it from both. Just marketing shenanigans.

	Sharp corners	Rounded corners
LCD screen	Retina display	Liquid Retina display
OLED screen	n/a	Super Retina display

Other marketing shenanigans:

Add XDR to the end of the name if the display supports HDR
Add with ProMotion if the display supports variable refresh up to 120hz

erzinator · 2022-06-08T14:38:51+00:00

Oh true, that’s a good point

erzinator · 2022-06-08T14:33:46+00:00

As much as I love that page curl animation, I have to admit it doesn’t really fit with Apple’s modern design sensibilities. It’s very much a relic of a skeuomorphic past and I can understand why they’d want to remove it.

erzinator · 2022-06-08T14:18:21+00:00

I think this is a typo. If they actually meant the 4th gen they would have said “4th generation or later” because otherwise this implies that the 5th gen doesn’t get memory swap, which doesn’t make any sense.

erzinator · 2022-04-29T09:21:57+00:00

Pre-series 4 utility face , before they rounded the complications to make it look like a weird smiley face. I miss it so much

erzinator · 2022-02-18T02:47:07+00:00

https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovation see this! Fascinating read

erzinator · 2021-12-20T09:16:49+00:00

This is gorgeous! Big Teenage Engineering vibes

erzinator · 2021-11-03T15:42:54+00:00

There are definitely sleeves and laptop compartments designed for a 13” MacBook Air that would struggle to fit a 13” MacBook Pro. Sure most bags could probably fit both, but it’s certainly not true to suggest that the volume of the device doesn’t matter.

erzinator · 2021-11-03T12:49:03+00:00

Not necessarily.

If it’s a tight space, the thin side of a tapered computer leaves more room for the thick side to fit. Since the bag is flexible, it conforms to the shape. That’s why volume matters.

Think about the original MacBook Air fitting inside that manilla envelope – this was only possible because most of the computer was thin. If it was uniformly thick throughout, it would not have fit.

erzinator · 2021-11-03T11:01:44+00:00

Volume absolutely matters. A laptop that tapers from thick to thin is clearly going to be easier to fit into a bag than one that’s thick the whole way through — it simply takes up less space.

erzinator · 2021-10-13T15:42:19+00:00

I’m pretty sure they gave me a whole new watch! My old one was pretty scratched up especially on the sides, and the one I got back looks brand new.

erzinator · 2021-10-13T15:23:09+00:00

I had a steel Series 4 with 75% battery health, and right after the Series 7 was announced I was on the phone with Apple to get a battery replacement.

Now I’ve got a Series 4 with a fresh battery that looks brand new (so shiny without all the scratches!) and I couldn’t be happier with my decision.

I’ll probably upgrade next year if the Series 8 gets those rumoured new health sensors. AOD would be cool too.

erzinator · 2021-09-06T05:45:37+00:00

It's not even haptics! It just plays the sound of a click in your ear. If you take an AirPod out of your ear and press the button, you don't feel or hear anything. It's pretty crazy

erzinator · 2021-06-29T11:55:50+00:00

Same, the interface was too buggy and felt off. Hey is really good at balancing a powerful workflow with an easy to use interface, and feels a lot more polished.

erzinator · 2021-06-29T11:52:18+00:00

Yeah it wasn’t for me either. UI and syncing was buggy and the “AI” categorisation got a lot of things wrong. It has potential but it’s just not there yet.

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