Completely agree, Apple made a vast of unforced errors: beyond UI tastes there are bugs that could have been detected by a below average QA team.

But OS bugs don't matter as long as people can "engage" with the notification to subscribe to Apple TV+, or their new Apple Intelligence AI thingy.

(the payment process itself will likely fail with random obscure errors after being prompted for your Apple password the 10th time though)

What makes you think they weren’t detected? I’ve never heard of a company that fixed everything before a release

Apple has trained us to expect better. I pay the premium price with those expectations in mind.

I, personally, would _like_ a new laptop and am lucky to be able to afford to buy at any retail price point but I cannot justify spending on Apple at this time. Maybe they’ll course correct but it seems unlikely to happen quickly enough for me. Johnny Ive ruined the product side of the company and IMO they may never recover as Tim Cook doesn’t have the kind of vision it would take to pivot to making consumer first products again.

There are scores of Japanese &&/|| console games that were perfect on release and never received a patch or report of a bug in their lifetime.

Granted, most of them are pre-internet.

I assume you are not using the Apple devices in the same way as me. If my very small companies detect the kind of issues Apple have now in my own developed software, I would be very angry if there are not fixed.

> The main thesis seems to be that "the brain evolved precisely to predict the future"

Even if we accept that premise, taking an evolutionary perspective means acknowledging that the brain could, in the future, evolve toward other dominant traits besides prediction. In that sense, the definition becomes elusive and time-dependent: what we call the brain's "purpose" today might only describe a temporary evolutionary state rather than a fixed function.

Is there a TL;DR version? Even the preface and introduction feel unnecessarily long.

I also think some statements are plainly incorrect. For example "humanity is already collectively superintelligent" in Chapter 10. The term superintelligence isn't one we have a shared definition for, but it's usually understood as an intelligence that surpasses all prior forms of intelligence(s), not one that merely aggregates them. In that sense, superintelligence could represent a qualitatively new level of cognition limited only by the physical computational capacity of the universe. Once you have a superintelligent entity you can imagine a future one surpassing it.

There's a bit on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Intelligence-Evolution-Computi...

I imagine at least one guy that could create the market for you and then get the profit.

Without trying to be pedantic, not all USB-C ports on Apple computers support Thunderbolt.

I haven't encountered this, but I've also only used the Apple Silicon devices. This might explain why there are so few ports, though: Thunderbolt is basically PCIe and has AFAIK direct lanes to the CPU; more full-featured ports = more PCIe lanes = much more complexity/expense.

The difference is in the desktop systems. That's where there are USB-C ports without Thunderbolt (e.g. Mac Mini).

Damn, you're right. I have an M1 Mac Mini and both ports are Thunderbolt. I recall, and Wikipedia corroborates, that the M2 Mac Mini could come with either two or four ports, but all were Thunderbolt. Now though, the M4 ones, besides getting an awful facelift, also seem to have sacrificed one Thunderbolt port (and both USB-A ports?!) to "gain" two non-Thunderbolt USB-C ports. What a terrible trade IMO.

Beyond the Trump effect, a lot of fraud has always been "legal", mostly because the victims can't afford to go after the fraudsters.