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macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (18 children)

"Golden Gate"? That's the lamest name for a macOS release ever IMO.

Edit: As expected, half the page on Apple's website talks about AI with only vague things about performance and UI improvements. I'll be staying on Tahoe for now.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    While I loathe AI bullshit, Apple is at least prioritizing local, on-device AI and end-to-end encryption with their cloud AI services.

    I'll still be passing on any of this bullshit, but I appreciate that they tried to make a less problematic version.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    What does end-to-end encryption even accomplish when you're just feeding the information into an obscured, blackbox AI on the other end?

    Like yes, I understand the importance of E2EE, I'm just making a point, it's all rather ridiculous.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Thank you, this is exactly true.

    Most internet things are E2EE nowadays, but it matters not when the other end is AWS, Google, Cloudflare, or OpenAI.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Supposedly Apple claims to encrypt it at rest and in transit.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    But data goes to the mothership anyway.

    'Bad actors' can't read your chatgpt conversations either, but OpenAI still does and can sell it.

    Apple may better than Google, but I still don't want my data there.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah also Prism - hello? Over 10 years ago we discovered that US can just enter any US based company's server and read anything they want unless it's directly encrypted but for these tools to function they have to decrypt data server side so LLMs can read the contents. Which means your data is not private in any way shape or form, not from Apple and not from US and not from anything in-between.

    These claims by Apple are absolutely meaningless smoke for the ignorant who just follow tech buzzwords.

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  • [–] -5 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    There's no on device AI in Apple land - what are you talking about?

    Also literally everything is end to end encrypted in this niche, that's what s in https stands for.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    There is on device AI in the Apple ecosystem. Many of the AI features that they announced will run locally (assuming hardware requirements are met). Things like Spatial Reframing will touch the cloud (via private compute) though. Other than that, Apple has an entire entry point for running AI close to the metal via MLX. It is kind of their entire angle at this point given their inability to create a competitive compelling AI product of their own. They appear to be taking on the role of "platform" once again.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yes but these are nothing features compared to LLM. Samsung does on device picture moving nonsense too but in the grand scale it's single digit % usage of AI if not below that. LLM is everything so the on-device tasks here are almost entirely meaningless.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The WWDC presentation yesterday was hilarious. Almost everything they said about the UI could be boiled down to: "We're undoing some of the incredibly bad decisions we made last year. Not all of them, but some of the big ones!"

    They then went on to demo the new improved Siri, and as someone who doesn't use Siri, all I could think was "wait...Siri couldn't do this 10 years ago?!"

    What a sad state of affairs.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I'll lift a comment I posted elsewhere on the topic of the name.

    From a 9to5mac article on the topic:

    Breaking with tradition, Apple didn’t name macOS 27 after a national park, lake, or other natural landmark. Instead, this year’s release is named after San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge.

    Typical of 9to5mac "reporting." The Golden Gate is a natural landmark, it's the strait between San Francisco and Marin which the famous bridge spans. Nowhere in the OS release even says the word bridge.

    Fun fact. While it might seem safe to assume the "gold" in Golden Gate refers to the gold discovery about 100 miles upriver that started the California gold rush, it was in fact named the Golden Gate prior to the gold discovery. John C. Fremont (my favorite early Californian) named it such because of the color of the hillsides when he first arrived.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It looks to me like the main draw is performance optimization especially on older devices, which is a fantastic thing for them to focus on IMO.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I'd hope that's the case, and I hope it's geared towards base M1s and such as they need it the most. Maybe they're improving RAM management to improve performance on the Neo.

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