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"Appeal to personal responsibility" is not a fallacy. Get a different bingo card.

There are a handful of comments here rueing buggy behaviors. These days with nearly the same amount of effort to post a complaint you can delegate the task of reproducing the issue, diagnosing the root cause, and proposing a fix. Yes, it may incur a small to moderate cost, but it's a contribution to an open source project that apparently provides some value in return.

I would use Cards while on vacation to send a spontaneous photo to elderly family members who weren’t online, and the experience was perfectly frictionless and very Apple. I don’t know if I ever saw the finished product.

I emailed Eddy Cue when the shutdown was announced and he agreed it was a great app but confirmed it wasn’t popular enough.

I don’t think I’ve sent a card since.

I watched the press briefing and then the Q&A in full, followed by part of the iPhone 4S announcement (Tim Cook's first keynote, and the day before Jobs's death). A couple of thoughts:

- Steve basically has 4 points to make during his prepared slides and he drags them out over 30 minutes. He's basically lecturing the press and just shy of scolding them for their vacuous reporting.

- Steve talks about how much they love their customers, and want to do right by them. The iPhone 4S keynote also features one of those Apple Store grand opening videos with crowds of happy customers. This has basically vanished from the brand persona... Tim may have said it in a monotone, but you don't feel it anymore.

- The members of the press do not come across as particularly competent in the Q&A. One of the questions is basically, "You previously shipped a software update that addressed cellular issues. Why are there still cellular issues?" They got really hung up on the fairly clear details of the free case program.

- The live Town Hall keynotes are so much more pleasant to watch. Not just pleasant but more comfortable to watch. The highly-produced modern keynotes are exhausting.

- I had no recollection of Apple releasing watch faces for the iPod nano* so it could be worn on the wrist, a few years before the Apple Watch. (*macOS autocorrect still enforces such capitalization of this 21-year-old product.)

You appear to have completely misinterpreted my comment.

Users of Mac OS X in the 2000s might remember the shareware company Unsanity and their Application Enhancer and "haxies" that modified system behaviors, like MightyMouse for custom cursors or ShapeShifter for UI themes.

Apple eventually waged war against code injection and by OS X 10.7, Unsanity's products were made obsolete.

Former Unsanity developer Rosyna Keller has recently revived two of their products for modern macOS: Xounds adds UI sound effects like OS 9's Platinum, and FruitMenu permits customization of the Apple menu.

In my macOS 27 System folder there are almost 500 local models across dozens of frameworks. Do you want to purge all of them? Or is there some distinguishing characteristic about which ones are unacceptable -- transformer models vs convolutional neural networks, generative models vs inference, etc.?

Philosophically, what is the difference between empty space and space that will be reclaimed when you need it?

The storage medium tracks whether a cell or sector is overwritable. The filesystem tracks whether a block is allocated. And the OS tracks whether a cache is evictable.

At what layer do you consider the space “claimed”?

There is no actual feature called "Apple Intelligence", it's a marketing term for a handful of disparate features that they are applying everywhere.

Is the excellent OCR that lets me select text within an image Apple Intelligence? It uses local models. Or the prediction engine that optimizes battery life by backgrounding apps you're less likely to use, or applies updates while you're sleeping? What about the Latent Semantic Mapping text classification framework, which uses language models for fuzzy document search -- and has been around since 2007?

It wouldn't have made sense in the past to add a master kill switch for all these features, and it doesn't really make sense now to have one for the latest iteration.

Have you used a social network in the past year? Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, et al. have become increasingly hostile to blockers with techniques that break pattern-matching on hostnames and element selectors. It may be inevitable that adblockers move toward visual identification.

Technically this is Schlarpcoding.

Amazon's hardware development subsidiary in Sunnyvale, California is Lab126. (Hi Mars!)