I don't want to have the security sensitivity of my devices be escalated by the fact that I access a very important service with that device. Currently I have separate passwords and a 2FA on my investing and bank accounts. I don't want to have to treat my cheap travel laptop as a SCIF because it is synced with my cloud services and has passwordless access to my entire financial life.

>Apple has a vision where you have an iPhone and a mac at home and a mac at work and a vision pro and an Apple TV and all of that and your passcodes "just work".

I have many of those and I fucking don't want them to "just work". My iPad is not my iPhone. My Mac Mini is not my iPhone. Yet my iPad at home pops up the speech-to-text voicemail notifications from phone calls that I chose not to answer while I am miles away at work. It's so fucking annoying that you can't specifically turn that off.

It's funny.

My usual "go kit" has my iPhone in my leg bag and then my iPad is either my main bag or one of those pouches that waitresses wear which has plenty of room to pack a tablet. I like using the hotspot (being parsimonious with data) and being able to respond to texts with tbe big screen. It's also nice that I can share passwords and passkeys easily between them.

Other aspects of the "Apple Lifestyle" make no sense to me, like I an a mirrorless photographer and use my iPhone like my Sony, I will go out with my selfie stick and shoot 200 selfies, transfer them to my computer, pick the best 3, them clear them all out.

I plugged my iPhone into my Mac when my wife was logged in and it tries to back up the whole 'freakin phone and renames it "Olivia's Phone" which is just nuts. Of course their answer is that you never clean out your phone, you just upload it all to iCloud, where I think the value proposition is you can pay $1 a month and stop all the dialogs nagging you to get it... Now only if I could have made the badge for Apple Arcade to go away by trying the free trial and canceling it!

Services can have a 50% uptime (or a 50% downtime if you prefer) as long as it's the time when I need it to be up (or don't need it.)

Which is to say that the significance of downtime depends on the user. Talking about nines only makes sense internally when you are evaluating your infrastructure and operations. It doesn't tell you squat about impact to your customer.

Right. And there's nothing wrong with having regular scheduled downtime. That's obviously not appropriate for most massive scale global cloud services, but it's great for services that know their usage patterns well.

The new Derek Smart.

Code and software and applications are an intermediate stage. The final stage is an AI/LLM that just does the thing that is needed without any code being written, there are no applications or programs, just an AI that does everything.

So how will separate systems communicate with each other? Or are there no separate systems? That’s the digital singularity I suppose.

This doesn’t scale at all for some problems where a specific algorithm is needed (graph problems for instance).

AI needs tools as much as humans do.

Claude do the needful.

>Or feature Thunderbolt rather than normie USB-C so you can record 4/8K ProRes to an SSD,

My iphone 16 pro max can do 4K ProRes HDR or Log at 120 FPS when plugged into a SSD. If I had more builtin storage I could do it without the SSD. If you don't mind more dongling you can also have an external display along with the external SSD.

I'm waiting for a software release for my iPhone 16 Pro Max that will let me plug in a dock that has an attached SSD, keyboard, mouse, and display, and an option to pop up on my phone to reboot into MacOS.

Also, if they make a neo 2 from the A19 with 12 GB that'd be cool.

You’ll be waiting awhile. iPads have had desktop M-series CPUs for ages now, and you still can’t run macOS on an iPad.

It’s just a software restriction. I’m sure they have macOS running on iPhones and iPads internally, probably both through a VM and natively. But it’s very Apple to block this use case.

I’m pretty sure the efficiency cores in the A20 Pro have more juice than the performance cores in my M1 Pro laptop.

And a crime in plenty of states. It shouldn't be, but it is.

Apple needs to move the health data storage, at least optionally, to the home pod/apple tv. My phone is my main interface, but it's not the only interface. And many of the devices that interface with the health app are not mobile. My blood pressure monitor, my bathroom scale. Test results from my doctor. And so on. These should be synced/stored on either my home device and exposed through an app on my phone/desktop/laptop.

That's called a Lazy River.