Another twelvemonth is about to be consigned to the ash-bin of history but before the clock runs out , allow ’s take a feel at the bad takes of 2024 !
AI boosters
If you know anything about the Macalope , you knew this was going to be in here .
First was the chorus of peoplewho said“Apple is behind on AI ” ! When company are rushing products to securities industry that have no evident revenue path , routinely provide event that are wrong and even dangerous and are build upon steal information , one wonders if this is n’t something youshouldbe “ behind ” on . Maybe next year we ’ll hear about how Apple ’s behind on building theTorment Nexus .
As if this no - legged crapper was n’t a refutable enough station to pose your backside on , we had analyst who arrogate this miracle of science would goad a smartphone superintendent - cycle , boost sales and profits for any company that was able to deliver this life - change technology .
That did not hap .
Still , more than one company developing an AI tholepin had lots of venture capital money shoot at them out of a metric ton - shirt canyon . And how didthatturn out ?
“ The bad ware I ’ve Ever Reviewed … For Now ”
Just calendar month after the hoopla sibilation , people are wonder if AI is even going to be able to getany well anytime soon . turn out the “ wait and see ” advance might have been the smart one . Surprise .
Still , there are some AI takes we can agree on . Several AI executivescomplainedthis yearthat they ca n’t make their Cartesian product unless they have complimentary admittance to copyrighted stuff . corking ! We ’re in correspondence ! You wo n’t make your product and we ’ll keep our copyright cloth ! Glad we had this confab .
AI itself
Speaking of forged take and AI , how about the bad takes AI itself delivered in 2024 ?
Google ’s AI , just as an illustration , suggested peopleeat gum and rocks . OK , that ’s just one instance . As a counterpoint , when asked if you could use gasoline to cook spaghetti quicker , its answer was an emphasized “ No ! ”
If it had onlystopped there .
No , you ca n’t use gasoline to fix spaghetti faster , but you could use gasoline to make a spicy spaghetti dish antenna .
No ! No , you ca n’t ! OK , the Macalope has never intoxicated gasoline , but he ’s pretty sure it ’s not go to make a dish “ spicier ” .
Apple Intelligence was not resistant to such flight of … nope , not “ fancy ” … nothing “ fancy ” about putting gasoline in your spaghetti . That ’s shack living . How about “ flight of steps of flimflamery ” ?
“ Apple Intelligence botched a presentment summary about Luigi Mangione , and the BBC is n’t glad ”
Yes , Apple Intelligence wrongly propose that the alleged assassin of the CEO of United Healthcare had killed himself .
And still Tim Cook says he loves summaries .
IDG
Apple’s ad department
Apple ’s advertising department ’s first gaffe this year was the ill-famed “ Crush ” ad . It was intended to point all the great , originative things you may do with an iPad . The only problem was it kind of send out a mixed message by literally crushing all of those things in a elephantine industrial hydraulic press .
Metaphors . How do they put to work ?
Apple even wet so far as toissue an apologyfor that one .
Then , just last month , Apple ran several Apple Intelligence advertising feature masses using AIto compensate for their objectionable personality flaws . Message : “ Are you a tug ? Have we capture a solution for you ! ”
Might have wanted to run that through another review .
The U.S. Department of Justice
While the Macalope would certainly say Apple could benefit from a little legislative guidance in how to conduct some of its affairs ( cough App Store cough ) , the suit against the company brought by the U.S. Department of Justice back in Marchwrecks itself before it find out itself . decry Apple ’s supposed domination of the auto industry with CarPlay and then postulate quotation for all of Apple ’s successes because it take activity against Microsoft in the other 2000s are apparently affair you’re able to drop a line without detonate from a deadly buildup of nonsensium . Who experience ?
GM doubles down
It was 2023 when GM announce that it was eschewing CarPlay , even go so far as to say it wasfor “ refuge ” reasons . But the company apparently is still trying to eat up its own dog solid food which may not be a metaphor . Some of their actions sometimes make you think they might really be rust firedog food , bozo nutrient , whatever happens to just be sitting there when they ’re athirst .
Despitelosing two fundamental executives , include Apple ’s former head of Cloud Services , Mike Abbott , and thenlaying off more than 1,000 software package engineers , GM saysthis is all part of its grand planof “ bold choices ” to own the user experience .
Well , you know what they say . You broke it …
Tim Sweeney
Last but not least is Epic CEO Tim Sweeney . Oh , not for anything he said about his company ’s fight with Apple over sample to set its own app store up on iOS , although we could probably get one or two gems out of that mess , too .
No , his unfit take of the year is when hecomplainedabout the time his MacBook got steal and he could see where it was thanks to Fine My .
This lineament is top-notch creepy surveillance tech and should n’t exist . Years ago , a kid steal a Mac laptop computer out of my car . Years later on , I was checking out Find My and it showed a function with the house where the kid who steal my Mac lived . WTF Apple ? How is that o.k. ? !
It is go away up to the reviewer to decide if he just hates anything Apple score or is so inebriated on libertarianism that when someone steals his laptop computer he just says “ I have been bested in the market of getting things while the getting is good ! Good for him ! ”
Those are the worst issue of 2024 . Ca n’t wait to see what 2025 brings !
I think .
