What am I missing ?
It's not impressive because text is a shit interface for interacting with a machine. GUI's are much better and we established this in like 1982.
Also what they are doing in that demo is inserting a machine shim in an interaction between people, which is what people, time and again, say they do not want.
It really seems like a solution in search of a problem.
They didn't type it. They hit a button, it suggested adding it to the calendar and they approved it.
You can still find some of the flow forced, but I think you've missed the starting point here.
A.C.K.: Wanna get [drinks] before?
Sky: Drinks at Trick Dog before dinner work for you guys?
I can also imagine it being really good at getting a high valuation and selling for millions/billions of dollars.
okay now I agree with boomers
I'm not overly crazy about the logo and buttons underneath the interactive windows, but the way it can infer window content and structure from any app (either by leveraging Accessibility or by just hacking at it I'm not sure yet, but one of the demos requires good UI introspection) makes it seem much better integrated than anything else I've used so far.
From the outside, it looks like there are just power struggles and fiefdoms held by the old guard that have resulted in the stagnation and the worsening quality across its operating systems. Even today you cannot search and find all the things in the Settings app on iOS, which has been a longstanding issue. ScreenTime is totally broken since iOS 18 and shows tons of minutes of apps that I open for just one minute everyday. There are many more irritating old bugs as well as new bugs being added regularly.
The recently rumored to be forthcoming “26” numbering of all its operating systems and the cementing of annual releases with new feature addition doesn’t bode well for improving quality. The way Apple’s software teams have been working, a tick-tock cycle of improvements followed by stabilizing every other year is the only way things can get a little better. That’s a pipe dream for me anyway.
Cook is excellent in terms of managing supply chains and has been good for the company’s bottom line, but he doesn’t have Jobs’ capability to discern what users want/need and what makes a good product, and I doubt he has anywhere near the level of direct involvement that Jobs had.
That’s not to glaze Jobs, he was anything but perfect but he was undoubtedly among the driving forces behind Apple’s quality and knack for building things that people want.
Edit: is this to upsell the AI?
The navigation is so unintuitive to me that I’ve killed the app just to try and get back to the most recent photos I’ve taken.
Apple products have mostly been very good. Even when I didn’t love the UX I could figure it out.
So many recent features just feel half baked (like replies in iMessage). I’m starting to wonder if they’re better off leaving good enough alone (not that that is a remote possibility).
Weirdly, I think they might be smarter than us. Despite being superficially uninterested in hardware, the general public seems to buy hardware, and then just use whatever OS comes on it. Apple seems to have aligned with this by easing up on software quality a bit and obtaining a reasonable (although not incontestable) claim at being the best hardware company with their M-series chips.
The styles on this blog overwrite repeated links with the color of the main text (see `.duplicate`). What's the design idea behind this? I doubt it holds, since the links are still there for keyboard users, etc.
Either make your hyperlinks visibly distinct (ideally underline them) or remove them.
Over the past 20 years there have been many schools of thought about it, and the only way I could get people to stop kvetching about it was to have the links become more distinct on paragraph hover but still render them in a distinct color (and oddly enough, the rate of complaints went way down when I shifted to dark red).
I have no sane explanation for this other than ascribing it to user-driven UX research over a massive amount of time (when compared to most other websites I know).
But (fun fact) the duplicate links inside paragraphs do wonders for RAG chunking and vectorization. :)
I believe there are multiple reasons why the styles are better now. Even the first-use red links are much more accessible now. And you are now presenting the same content to the users using screen readers or other assistive technologies as for the typical users.
By the way, I think your analysis of the Apple situation sounds absolutely spot on.
But even if you are questioning why anyone would click it -> well why have the link there in the first place then?
Edit: working now
He goes fairly deep based on two weeks of usage.
Now that Apple knows what to build, they’ll build it.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(software)
2. https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html
3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Accusati...
[1]https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n12/82_MemoryShift...
The main actions are option+c to copy, option+v to paste. Take the front page of hackernews and capture it with option+c (use cmd+a to select all, if text is selected we pickup text, otherwise we pickup an image); and then go to sheets.new or numbers and hit option+v, see your Spreadsheet getting built. It works everywhere.
There's spells option+s (custom GPT per app / URL) and agent mode (option+I) but give magic copy/paste a shot. More examples here[2]
[1] https://tabtabtab.ai/TabTabTab.dmg
[2] https://tabtabtab.notion.site/tabtabtab-user-notes?pvs=4
Apple has a target on its back. Anything they do absolutely will be hacked. There are unsolved problems securing tool-using LLM’s.
I wonder what Sky does for security?
second iteration Net
There are plenty of places you can find rushed AI projects. Perhaps being slower and smoother is itself a differentiator?