Tim Cook, as CEO of a public company, is incentivized to deliver shareholder value.
Entering this market with a good product does just that.
Beyond that, this is an entry point for people to use Apple products. It can be bridge to get this consumer to buy more premium hardware and software later on.
To me this is another sign the written word is dead.
With so many mechanisms for creating users and posting en masse, I find it really hard to believe the contents of any comment or post I read that goes past a paragraph or two. And of course I am still skeptical even if it is less than 2 paragraphs of text.
I find the contents of that specific post hard to believe. Specially since the user hasn't participated in the conversation at all.
I like this place a lot and it saddens me we are just going to see more of this.
I’m almost wondering if in a few years people are going to have to sign everything they write with a private key or something. I think anonymity is extremely important for society and the internet but bots are only going to get better
What's going to happen is we'll get a couple of generations born natively to a world in which AI is ubiquitous, and they simply won't care. Content generated by an LLM will have no more or less value than content generated by a human, and social and emotional bonds with LLMs will be seen as no different than with human beings.
It is OK to separate yourself from a group when you deeply disagree with their actions, no matter how insignificant it might seem to a different group of people.
However, I am glad this happened. New Linux Ambassadors will step up and this issue will be buried into the alternative social media communities such as Mastodon, never to be heard of again.
I disagree that Framework will lose a meaningful amount of business over this.
There is value in fast iteration and delivery. These are early stage startups, the clock is ticking. I wouldn’t do it with JS but I understand why it would be used.
Now we can argue how good or bad the nodejs (or any alternative JS implementation) is. At the end of the day the objective is most likely to rock the boat enough to be acquired and have a payday. With enough discipline you can get far before the footguns show up.
