TLDR: it’s a “”“news”“” article about a Reddit post and does not remotely represent the average Apple user
futurism.com “articles” as we know them. I don’t care if they are in line with my views or not. It is cheap engagement slop.
Apple used to brag that its products just work. Now your expensive Mac comes with a bloated AI experiment you didn’t request, can’t fully remove, and are expected to thank Tim Cook for. When customers start writing tools to delete your flagship feature, that’s not innovation.
Wasn’t it always Apple’s position: “We know better what users need and if we don’t have some feature it just means that users don’t need it”?
What’s really crazy is that apple had this obnoxious attitude that “they know what users really want”, the users would disagree, they’d complain loudly, then they’d use the software and say “damn… Apple was right, this is better.”
But… That was all before 2010. I can’t think of a single software innovation the company has had since then. Apple used to deliver overpriced, outdated hardware and they only managed to sell it by packaging it with the slickest OS on the market. These days the situation is reversed, Apple is developing their own silicon, they have some of the fastest consumer chips around, and they need it, because their software is nothing to write home about and their prices are still high.
They did some commendable things involving locking phones when lost/stolen/seized by cops.
They’ve also done some typical tech monopoly things with os bloat, slowing down old hardware and poor support for older hardware.
I think you’re right about that. Apple’s policies around user privacy and security from authorities are generally pretty good, certainly better than average for tech companies.
And… Apple has kind of always been monopolistic, and that hasn’t changed a bit.
The slowing down phones was also “Apple knows what’s best for you”. They were doing it to phones that had seen battery degradation, so that the phone battery would still last the whole day even with the reduced capacity.
I think you mean Tim Apple
It’s John Apple now!
(Tim Cook resigned. John Ternus is the current CEO of Apple)
What if it’s a Dread Pirate Roberts situation, and every subsequent Apple CEO automatically becomes “Tim Apple”?
Then they should definitely all be Steve Apple.
No, for two reasons. First, there are already two Steve Apples, from the same time, no less. Second, because we don’t really want one of those Steves back. Great marketer, shit person.
I like the idea of Apple’s leadership working on a princess bride model. Tim Apple is simply a title that gets handed down
The lack of AI was actually a huge selling point for me with the Neo (even though the price was already a huge sell). It’s a shame that they’re now falling for the same trick as the rest of the industry.
The selling point for me when buying apple products was the shitty implementation of AI. That was the USP. Now they partnered with google so yeah… I don’t use google in my daily life, degoogled a long time ago, don’t want to come near them with a ten foot pole and the new AI shit is actually reskinned Google…
Apparently an unpopular opinion here but I highly appreciate the move by Apple to embrace local AI. Sure it’s not perfect in any sense, but I like the direction.
I don’t think that’s unpopular at all. Local AI is the only AI future worth pursuing.
Same here. Local is not the problem. Control is.
I’m curious what this tool does that is different from turning off Apple Intelligence in the Settings because they already give you some degree of control.
The problem is there is no single switch to turn it off. You have to go to each nook and cranny in the settings and toggle a switch. And if you miss anything, that 20 something gigabytes of space doesn’t free up. I’m all for local AI features, but it should be a one toggle switch to turn it off or remove it.
The reddit user featured in the article had to create a script to automate it and keep it off.
Even for the off-device stuff it usually gives a direct answer, without fluffing up the user, and almost always mentions double checking validity or speaking to a professional for advice (such as medical advice).
I don’t need to tell people here how terrible AI like ChatGPT is at confidently misleading people and pretending to be a users friend.
No.
Project link: https://omlahore.github.io/RemoveMacAI/
The T14 gen 6 is pretty upgradable and you can replace windows with Linux.
Let me know when it’s available with something comparable to Apple Silicon SoCs.
Siri, set a reminder for when Intel and AMD collapse, and non-x86 PCs finally become reality.
“RISC architecture is going to change everything.”
Already has.
Well, the movie is 30 years old.
You can use Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon, but you can’t replace Mac OS. I used it for a few years and just stopped because of the partitioning and update issues. I bought a T14 gen 3 and put Void on it. Works a lot better and I could finally upgradey SSD to a 2 TB one.
I’ve been using Asahi Linux on a Macbook M2 for about a year now and generally like the experience. There’s a few things I’m hoping for future improvements, but its definitively “good enough” for my needs now to use daily.
I used it for a few years and just stopped because of the partitioning and update issues.
What issues did you run into?
It was just the space that MacOS takes up and how Asahi partitions. I got used to doing the partitioning myself when I switched to Void and now having it done automaticlly annoys me.
I really don’t like Fedora or the package manager too much. It would be great if Nvidia, AMD, or Intel can make their own version of Apples silicon.
My old MacBook M2 was awesome and handled PS2 emulation, Oblivion with mods, and other older games great.
I highly doubt it. Knowing apple users its a small minority of technical users doing this while rhe rest of users happily outsource thinking to siri and apple intelligence
The only people I know who use macOS are technical in a domain
I don’t know where the reputation of Mac users don’t know how to use a computer comes from
My parents have used Macs exclusively for the last 20 years or so because they don’t require much technical knowledge. Before ChromeOS, smartphones, and tablets, they were the closest thing to an internet appliance. Most Mac users I know fall into that category. Heck my dad and older brother were both very capable and knowledgeable with PCs but Macs are so frictionless that they no longer feel like they need to know how it works. It just works.
Linux has no AI features
False.
No. It’s True.
You can optionally install them, but none are opt-out, all are opt-in
But that means it has features that feature capabilities for ML/AI.
So it’s false. Kind of.Nope. Still true. They’re not built-in to the OS. And user-installed plugs into open APIs that any app can use.
Yes, there are dozens of them. Dozens!
Apple fanboys aren’t automatically swallowing everything they’re given? Probably a sign of the apocalypse.
I’d love for a law that made it illegal to use “X users” and require absolute numbers.
Is all rage bait. 500 real users on a forum isn’t a useful cohort.
They mentioned 2000 stars on the Github repo, which could be 1:1 or 1:1000 that have used it. What do you expect them to do, walk around and put a gun to the head of every mac user and ask them if they used it?
Absolute numbers in the headline. How much more explicit do I need to be? .002% of Mac users, at best.
