Sometimes, stuff is just hard to get right. Look at AirPower: announced in 2017; cancelled in 2019 because they just couldn't;t make it work right.

I'd personally rather Apple take their time and get AI done right, than jam it into every single product, irrespective of if it makes sense or not. A Copilot-powered Notepad, for example, is just silly; yet here we are. The case management built into Dynamics CRM has Copilot summaries now; they are less than useful and make page loading take so much longer.

I bought an iPhone 16 on the basis of the AI capabilities; it was our designated upgrade year anyway so the fact these features haven't materialized is no great loo; in fact I'm happy not to have them when I look at the ungodly mess Microsoft land has become. And Google's AI summaries... there is wrong, and there is not even close to being wrong.

Ah, another satisfied Microsoft 365 user, describing their wondrous interactions with Copilot!

Nope; just pre-empting tomorrow's internet carnage. Today's mess is something else.

The book "Infinite Loop" had a take on this, too. The whole Power line had issues, and increasing clock speeds would be problematic for it. Andy Grove paid Apple a visit, and showed them their roadmap. Apple took them seriously (for a change), seeing that Intel's CPUs would leave the Power chips in the dust, both in pure GHz performance and power consumption. It was a no-brainer for then to switch to Intel, whilst leaning how to design their own chips, with the A4 being released in 2010.

Remember, the whole PowerPC thing was an Apple - IBM - Motorola alliance to counter Intel. Apple was interested in their own chips even then. The alliance fell apart because Motorola couldn't hold it's end of the bargain up; specifically making faster CPUs.

Hopefully, the first title available will be Half Life 3.

"Well, it can't be a cohort from UTF-16 - they will get cut down to size!"

Damn. So I still have to pay my AmEx bill on Friday.

Ah, Slashdot! Last bastion for UTF-8 on the internet!

DVDs were expected to last 100 years; however some of my collection is less than 20 years old and is unreadable. I'm taking that 5000 years with a very large grain of salt.

The last pole reversal was 41,000 years ago. We obviously survived. They are more slow-motion events than any thing else.

I was there, at the dawn of the Third Age of Computing. It began in the Earth year 1985 with the founding of Deluxe Paint. EA was good back then; they contributed so much to the burgeoning Amiga: Deluxe Paint, Instant Music, Deluxe Music Construction Set, and Deluxe Video. They were a founding partner of the IFF (Interchange File Format) standard that dominated the Amiga scene.

And then they changed.

The EA today is unrecognizable to the EA of years ago; instead of a company on the cutting edge of consumer software, they sit behind a mountain of increasingly worse sequels. We saw this coming in 1995 with the release of Deluxe Paint 5, a release that really served no purpose other than to extract money from a dwindling population. I think we can pinpoint the change: Deluxe Paint 3, which added animation and was still led by Dan Silva, was released in 1989; whereas Deluxe Paint 4 was released in 1991 without Dan leading it.

The more I think of it, the 1989 - 1991 timeframe is when EA revealed their true selves.

After so much effort and hoo-ha, Recall is finally released.

Even then, it has two problems:

1. Who asked for this feature?
2. What problem does it actually solve?

In the year+ since this feature was announced, I've never heard a single compelling reason for this to exist. In the meantime, this story, Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time came along to remind us why this feature is really a bad idea.

If by "amazing" you actually mean a thoroughly vile person, and if you define "People" in "People's Pope" as "child-molesting priests", then yes: he was an amazing person. Those of us who saw the human carnage caused by the Defender of the Pedophile Priests might have a slightly different opinion.

Subtracting a negative from the world always yields a positive outcome.

Thank goodness for GOG!