I don't think they got as far as making a website before being acquired. AFAICT the name of the company hadn't even been announced prior to this, it was just vaguely referred to as Jony Ive's hardware company.
I wasn't gonna check the link at first but you've convinced me, and holy shit that image of the two of them that greets you first thing is beyond hilarious.
You truly couldn't make this up, it's so beyond parody that I don't even know what to say. It's so palpably psychotic.
The quotes at the bottom are funny because they have a share link which implies that Sam and Jony thought they were insightful enough that people would want to actively share them. Even in the extreme tech crowd, who would share those?
Altman: "Jony was running a design firm called LoveFrom that had established itself as really the densest collection of talent that I've ever heard of in one place AND HAS PROBABLY EVER EXISTED IN THE WORLD."
I felt physically sick from second-hand embarrassment watching this.
German has a word for second hand embarrassment. Fremdschämen. Comes in very handy here. If Sam continues like this it won’t be long until it becomes part of the regular English language like other German words such as Kindergarten.
And I’ll be happy that I don’t have to explain Fremdschämen anymore. Everything has its upsides.
Somehow when the buzz-word machine found talent density, half the passengers forgot that density has a denominator. I see this goof a lot. If you accept the premise that Jony is literally the most talented human in the entire history of the world (I know I know), then obviously he was more dense sitting in a room alone, than after being diluted by hiring 50 other people.
Secondly, is it a weird Sora-stitchedc video? It feels like they just filmed their parts separately like they're not even talking to each other/interacting with each other. Very peculiar.
Deffinately a contender for one of the creepiest photos in the industry.
Not something that inspires confidence in the "Design Prowess" of the acquisition if this is what they felt best represented them.
It uses the same overhype playbook from the Segway launch: "Oh, I used the [unnamed, unexplained] device and it was the most amazing thing in the whole of human history!" "This object will cause the entire planet to be redesigned around it!"
The visionOS side of this, which is the one that requires App Review, is a glorified VNC app. They will probably review it thoroughly but it doesn't seem like it breaks any rules.
I don't know about you, but there's nothing easy about having to boot up an IDE every 7 days to sign and re-install an app you depend on. It's just one more thing to worry about and mentally keep on top of, the opposite to Apple's convenience and smooth UX ethos.
Their demo of AI Q&A in the announcement video (@3:36) is totally wrong. The Pin says the April 2024 total eclipse will be best viewed from Australia and East-Timor... Except the eclipse passes over the US and will be nowhere near Australia. The answer seems to be about a partial eclipse in April 2023. How was that not fact checked???
That's what you get when your futuristic "AI pin" works by making an API request to an off-the-shelf LLM (ChatGPT I assume) that was last trained a year ago.
Ha you're kidding right? This is almost an attempt at adding another product to Apple's existing range of hardware, which is all phenomenally close to this hardware by being a chip, a camera, audio IO, and in their case a screen rather than a projector. You couldn't get closer if you tried.
The demo was showing how you can interact with it. I don't think this is a big deal. If they're using GPT-4 or another model, then it will be resolved when the AI model is.
What reason do we have to believe that the underlying technology will improve enough for the product to be actually usable? Many of this product's features require a degree of trust that clearly isn't merited at this stage. An assistant that tells me to go to an event at a place it's not happening is worse than useless. Their advertising shows a person asking "can I eat this?" with a piece of fruit -- that's not a question you want a hallucinated answer to!
They're not "color options" they are "colorways", you rube. And it doesn't come in three shades of grey, it comes in "Lunar", "Equinox", and "Eclipse". Those colors are worth easily $100 of the MSRP right there.
This is huge: "Rather than the classic ChatGPT personality with a fixed verbosity, tone, and style, developers (and soon ChatGPT users) can now prescribe their AI’s style and task by describing those directions in the 'system' message."
It already exists, but according to their docs current chatGPT "does not always pay strong attention to system messages. Future models will be trained to pay stronger attention to system messages"
Instead of one large prompt there's now 'system', 'user', and 'assistant' prompts which are meant to be given specific instructions each. So you could tell the system prompt that it's a librarian and ask the message prompt what date a book was published.
Garry Tan: "30% of YC companies exposed through SVB can’t make payroll in the next 30 days. If you or your company are affected, I recommend that you reach out to your local congressman to get this on their radar TODAY."
So is this going to be a “privatized profits, socialized losses” type scenario? Are taxpayers going to be bailing out this bank and the companies that use them?
If the bank's failure doesn't represent a systemic risk to the economy, such that the executive branch would be justified in propping them up, we're talking about a popularity contest. Who does the American public like less, nerds or bankers? might not play in congress quite the way the OP is hoping.
It might not come to that, since the specifics of the bank's financials will determine whether everyone eventually gets their money back.
