Here's my Siri theory
Justin Searls from Breaking Change joins the show to discuss Apple’s Intelligence blunder, the end of the good times in the tech industry, and POSSE Party, his in-progress product that lets “any dummy with a website enjoy a life of algorithm-free luxury.”
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Justin Searls: [00:11:51.19] Yeah, so - I mean, John’s overall story… And it was unusual to anyone who reads his blog. And I’ve been reading it – it was actually maybe the first blog I started reading once I first used a Mac. I had a job, I got an iMac G4, which was the cool one that looks like the Luxo Jr… And my boss said, “Alright, so here’s some keyboard shortcuts, and go read Daring Fireball every day.” I took those as marching orders, and I’ve been reading John’s blog ever since. And while we’ve never interacted outside of a couple of emails here and there, it’s extremely unusual for him to share a strong editorial opinion in one of his non-link blog, as in it’s just a post on his site that doesn’t link out to something else. Extremely unusual for him to share in an editorial format anything critical of Apple that doesn’t have a heavy counterweight.
And what this was basically saying is like “Look…” He starts – well, I guess the counterweight was he starts by saying “I blew it. I should have seen this coming. We shouldn’t be surprised that Apple announced the delay of these more advanced Apple Intelligence features like the personalized context, and the semantic index”, and all the stuff in the really, really impressive, that we talked about on this show a year ago –