@bradenslen All of the above.

@lmika

@lmika Definitely an old one. I worry about the credit - if he and Einstein said everything that people say they said - I am not sure how they ever did what they are really known for.

@lmika Henry Ford (supposedly).

@bradbarrish honored to have your thinking flow into my processes - and not forgotten the Obsidian plugin - life just overtaking me for a while.

@manton aahh - so when i bring in my lettrbox post - it loses THE lettrbox connection in the URL - enhancement request please - you know what it is :-) Thank you

@manton @rom

long - sorry. and one day with time I will tidy it all up as a post … but you’ll get my drift.

we shouldn’t confuse an iPhone with a phone - it is a very capable very small computer. It hasn’t been a phone for years. It might always stay that way - I still find myself hoovering floors - not dysoning them.

The iPhone eco system? It sits on top of the Apple ecosystem.

AND

Apple Mission: : To bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.

What Apple Does: Apple is a technology company that “designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.”

Apple’s Category : Were I to put them in a single category - ‘consumer electronics’ ?

Choose any one of them … AI devices are clearly part of their story and will sit in/on whatever the eco system is.

ipod arrived 3 years after the first commercially available portable player

airpods 12 years after the first bluetooth headphones appeared

apple watch came 2 years after pebble watch

we can all choose our device and highlight that apple follows

same as it ever was - what Apple wins at is getting it (nearly) right before release, watch mistakes as they are made by others - and themselves - and of course an extraordinary long vision into where they are going with an unmatched PESC for manufacturing in the age of reason - which won’t be going anywhere any time soon - and a nascent - but still leading and ever developing - CEDN as the world transitions into the the age of experience.

As for AI destined to always be secondary?

How far out are we looking? And what is an AI device - exactly?

Apple has had a lot of AI in its little computer for a while now - at what point does it turn into an ‘AI device’?

Humans operate with 5 or 6 senses - depending on your perspective - that inform our brains we have also processes like gesture, tone, body language etc that all add up to how we engage.

• phone: i can see a screen - I can touch a screen - i can talk to a screen - I can listen to the sound - can’t yet smell or taste
• airpods - I can hear sound - not just from a computer - ambient sound - even as hearing aids and shortly cameras - no smell of taste
• glasses - yet to be released - but when they do - will have a similar combo

etc etc

and we also have gestures - as input - not a sense - but we have already got gestures for and output

bottom line NONE of this matters until the I/O is aggregated and we have triangulated and checked and made sense of things (our brain does that)

the pocket in your computer does aspects of that in the tech world - and that requires processing power - the computer in your pocket - your local and personal hub - and definitely NOT on Sam and Jonys new device talking to the cloud and the borg - without my express request.

Failure to take this road takes us down the Pluribus route.

@manton Very nice. All episodes in my life in one place this is great. I wonder if there is a way for the list to show movies and shows that I have posted from places like Letterboxd .. in my world I use all the same tags .. how is this list generating? it clearly isn’t just tags.

@lmika Delighted that my role as translator remains intact.

@manton His bet against Lidar was not a good one.

@cote

oh yes - a LOT to say on this one … 3 quick bullets to start - that should be on a deck somewhere (aahh the irony)

1A Outcomes of The Age of Reason and associated Systems of Compliance
1B Ignoring The Age of Experience and associated Systems of Engagement.

2 The best theatre for CYA

3 Great for Broadcast - useless for collaboration - see 1A and 1B above.

@bradbarrish 💥💥💥

@matthewlang i THINK we are doing 4:2 this evening

@matthewlang have you done the 4th yet?

@devilgate Even though I typically enjoy Massive Attack, not close enough to them to have thought about it .. but close enough to Cocteau to require a listen .. I knew the album, knew this song and still 🤯 Good uncovering .. she’s even credited as one of 4 writers.

@lmika Nor this one …

Sorry about the duplicate post - been futzing and forgot that I had switched on RSS and JSON from Crucial. Normal service should be resumed.

BTW - have you tried Crucial? Neat - and a nice companion to Albumwhale

This particular one is - of course - very broken. BUT we are getting there.

@MitchWagner Nice .. if only to realise just how many lines we have to deal with.

@kaa need to listen - i thought it had started.