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2026-06-22 15:56:25 GMT

What happens to investors when AI stops needing a data center to be useful?
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4187825/the-trillion-dollar-ai-hallucination.html

2026-05-06 14:52:31 GMT

Apple's problems rolling out Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri did more than undermine the company's reputation – they also cost real money. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4167906/apple-intelligence-hype-cost-the-company-250m.html

2026-04-30 14:23:13 GMT

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Plus of course once AI has replaced the last job, and our society collapses under the weight of forever wars and its own contradictions, Apple will be there with the best machines to do things without any AI, because there will be no energy supply and we'll power our Macs with solar batteries and wind up crank shafts

2026-04-30 14:15:47 GMT

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I feel that way too - I think it means a lot to offer a hardware ecosystem capable of running all these AI slop machines,

2025-11-23 15:19:25 GMT

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I seem to recall that was a different thing, in that for it to work some of your information ended up on third party servers, outside the security perimeter. I seem to remember writing something at the time, but can't find it now, frustratingly!

2025-11-20 19:26:08 GMT

Apple’s computational performance story matters a great deal in this challenging environment, as does its ability to generate more processing power per watt than others.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4093857/do-higher-ram-prices-make-apple-a-better-option.html

2025-11-05 14:49:53 GMT

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Certainly that's my understanding here, using Google Gemini as a kind of white label service, running on Apple servers and, presumably, protected by the privacy central to the Apple experience.
I pondered other ways this might work in the blog today - so could Private Cloud Compute become a kind of intermediary to AI requests made of other services? That wouldn't be complete protection, but would be much more protection, I think, which will matter more as people become more demanding of sovereign and private cloud based AI services, pending edge devices assimilating such capacity

2025-10-21 17:24:37 GMT

Hundreds of millions of Windows 10 users face a real choice – pay for PCs that run Windows 11, or pay for Macs that run that, as well as MacOS?
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4076227/windows-10-is-dead-time-to-get-a-new-mac.html

2025-01-30 20:55:08 GMT

Is Apple Intelligence 2.0 on track?
In the coming months, all eyes will be on Apple as critics and competitors wait to find out whether Apple Intelligence was a one shot attempt at maintaining relevance, or the first steps of a great company about to find its AI feet.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3813532/is-apple-intelligence-2-0-on-track.html

2025-01-17 18:04:58 GMT

How Apple is in the race for workplace AI
Gen Z is also set to be Generation AI. And, despite Siri, Apple already has a strong grip on Generation Z — its market share among US teens continues to grow.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3804904/how-apple-is-in-the-race-for-workplace-ai.html

2024-09-13 17:30:05 GMT

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3520701/apple-gets-ready-for-app-sideloading-on-eu-ipads.html