Sounds like you just got stuck with a shit PM to be honest.

As a British person working for an American company, my spelling at work is an inconsistent mess.

I would like to skip most of my meetings, but it would likely damage most of my working relationships.

Performance reasons LOL. Apple fans love plausible deniability.

And haters love a conspiracy.

Truth is, no one has the full facts so any reasons as to why this was made the way it was is pure speculation. Only a fool would move to condemn or endorse what is not yet fully understood.

As someone who's implemented custom Bluetooth protocols, it's actually quite easy to condemn an Apple manufacturer ID check to expose custom services.

And what do you mean by "conspiracy"? I would be shocked to find out this was done by some lone wolf and wasn't built with broad (even if grumbly) consensus in the relevant teams. That's how corporate software is built.

Every time someone opens an argument with the classic appeal to authority “as someone who has…” you can almost certainly expect to have that person miss the point of the discussion entirely.

What a fantastic way to keep from addressing anything I said while still allowing you to act condescendingly.

Anthropic feels like a one trick pony as most users dont need or want anthropic products.

However, I speak with a small subset of our most experienced engineers and they all love Claude Sonnet 4.5. Who knows if this lead will last.

Claude is ChatGPT done right. It's just better under any metric.

Of course OpenAI has tons of money and can branch off in all kind of directions (image, video, n8n clone, now RAG as a service).

In the end I think they will all be good enough and both Anthropic and OpenAI lead will evaporate.

Google will be left to win because they already have all the customers with the GSuite and OpenAI will be incorporated at massive loss in Microsoft, which is already selling to all the Azure customers.

Anthropic are mostly selling, and having most success, with business customers (incl. selling API access for Claude Code).

This is the reason they haven't bothered to provide an image generator yet - because Chat users are not their focus.

Lately ClaudeAI switched over to ASCII art when doing explanations....

>Anthropic feels like a one trick pony as most users dont need or want anthropic products.

I don't see what the basis for this is that wouldn't be equally true for OpenAI.

Anthropic's edge is that they very arguably have some of the best technology available right now, despite operating at a fraction of the scale of their direct competitors. They have to start building mind and marketshare if they're going to hold that position, though, which is the point of advertising.

I dont think you understand the implications of banning this. In principle you ban any kind of content recommendation. Reddit, Netflix, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

No? Our society doesn't treat jobs as equally important as all kinds of content. Having rules around content recommendation around jobs is easily doable without banning any kind of content recommendation.

Or did I miss obvious sarcasm?

The content you consume has a large influence in your education and career.

If you get recommendations for "Technology" and someone of the opposite sex doesn't its completely discriminatory.

If you don't think its a problem then you likely dont understand how recommendation systems work.

The only way recommendations could work is you would explicitly state preferences for everything upfront and no engagement data is used.

I do understand how recommendation systems work, thank you.

You've written twice in this thread that you'd need to ban any kind of content recommendation system. Is that what you're advocating for? Your comments read to me as the opposite - you're saying that the only way to 100% solve this issue is by banning any recommendation system, so we shouldn't do anything instead.

This is, of course, not how we treat almost any facet of our society. No law covers 100% of cases, yet we're fine implementing new laws if they improve the situation. Why can't we do the same here?

I got burned by Apple purposely corrupting my music library. I'm still salty about it.

Purposely? Could you elaborate?

People, including me, had a lot of playlists of ripped cds and downloaded mp3s, all categorized, rated, and with years of play count history.

Then apple fucked everyones libraries up completely in an auto update, destroying the metadata and making them unusable, except for songs bought via apple music that is...

"Purposely" seems strong, though. Is it believed that Apple intended this corruption?

It is believed that the bug was ignored or deemed unimportant or worse because of apples preference for users purchasing music via their store, yes.

Still can't get rid of that U2 album I'm guessing

Oh that's easy, just download this extra piece of software which removes the album for you.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29208540

Happend to my father as well, his songs were all over the place with the same albums even sharded over multiple folders etc. A big mess. Left him pretty sour indeed, he had spend a lot of time on it.

Btw, it was fine from withing iTunes, just never stop using iTunes I guess...

Sounds hugely unreasonable. At 1% I might've believed you.

I predict a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money.

Compare with “I predict people are going to die.”

Clear, testable predictions are possible if you try.