And trucking. But jobs.

A manufacturer.

Maybe you need a new phone. Or a faster internet connection?

No I need better phone app developers. The fastest phone has the same issues. New phones are just as sluggish. And, it's a phone, there's not going to be fast networks everywhere, and a whole generation of poor developers was raised to believe that the network was always present and always fast.

And on the iOS side, Tahoe inserts all sorts of overdone, ridiculous animations that slow down phone interaction, but delaying presentation of

We are up to the iphone 18 now. The iphone is said to be about 50% of Apple's revenue since 2012. Regardless of app developer quality, it is quite literally Apple's now-well-honed job to ensure that enough people want to buy next year's model, by various types of forced obsolescence. Indirectly, this means that the durably snappy and non-sluggish experience you're forever wanting can never actually happen. 'Forever wanting it' is an essential part of the business design here!

In this system. Of 'smartphones', where a small handful of corporate masters - who also happen to (now!) be a big share of the world's largest and most profitable corporations - now own over half of the computing world that we love, following their whirlwind 20-year takeover of it.

"No I need better phone app developers." - Hmmm. Commiserations. The trend of developer quality (and/or it's inverse - e.g. system complexity and overheads) has been fairly constant since the term 'developer' became mainstream parlance, and you won't need me to point out what effect AI coding agents have had upon the doorway-to-entry.

Not that you aren't correct, but Tahoe is a MacOS release, not iOS. I assume you mean iOS 18 (the version before iOS 26)?

Tahoe is macOS 26. The corresponding iOS version is iOS 26

iOS 18 corresponds to macOS 15 (Sequoia)

iOS and macOS don’t “correspond” in any way, shape, or form. Completely different releases. Their release windows tend to be close (by design) but there ‘s no “correspondence” here.

Indeed, on modern laptops and phones every UI interaction should be instant (check out BeOS in 1995 for comparison). For background stuff, add some progress indicator.

Can't believe the crap OSes and frameworks add these days in terms of performance cost (and sadly, Apple doesn't exactly shine in that regard)

The bigger question is what are these apps doing that they aren't doing 10 years ago that they now need all this extra compute for to serve the same basic functionality? It always amazes me how stuff like instagram just tanks my battery life. It is instagram its basically wgetting image urls same as its always done but it is taking over system resources for reasons...

Because the app tracks every movement, every scroll and tap, how long you look at things, and reports back with data on all of your activity.

Nah. Software took 15-20 seconds when we were back on spinning discs.

Now that we have solid state supercomputers in our pockets, even the most simple app should launch in milliseconds

You better don't look into how banks make money on your savings.

You better don't look into how banks created your savings by creating loans that were used to invest into companies and thus pay salaries.

And? People buy what they want to buy. Apple builds what people want to buy. Been like this forever.

And? Why do you even the comment on a social critisism comment? Just ignore it, feel happy when you buy yourself the next stupid thing while you feel offended seeing your fellow citicen.

Why does it even trigger you then?

It doesn't trigger me, I'm trying to understand why it triggers the other guy. Now, pass the baton.

Glancing at Richard Mille watches and thinking... $800, peanuts.

If my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike

How can you possibly make that comparison

Good news, everyone. Soon you won't be able to switch it off.

I suspect this will just lead to people pulling the ABS fuse and losing ABS and ESC along with AEB.

Why use the slop machine then, if you already know or precognize the answer?

Because you move faster.

you mean like Boeing vs Airbus?

Have you laid those people off? You still have people on the payroll. If each one of them uses a $500 subscription, you are now spending $42k/month, not $40k.

Now think about that he is counting it like:

He never had to hire anyone in the first place.

He didn't have to make any contracts, deal with screening, background checks, recruitment calls.

All that money he didn't spend he can spend on maxing out token usage.

No, but the 3 of us can now accomplish a lot more than we used to. We spend around $450 a month on hosted inference plus capital / utility costs of around $100 a month in local inference.

And our 2 non-technical staff are now busy designing apps, so when they hand off something to be productised, it’s far more complete than the old days of a few Figma drawings

Are you sure you are?

Try laying some people off just to be sure.

I'm very un-motivated to do so since then I'd have more work to do, and I'd be making less money.