Keeping the apple denialism aside, one startup finds a bug in the software, The company doesn’t want to admit it (like antennaGate) and then goes about solving the problem.
It strikes me as troublesome that a company that found a bug could be banned from the App Store and the rep talks about it as killing the company.
I cannot follow this post at all. Where does $10B come from? It's never mentioned aside from the tagline.
I'm also trying to understand what OASIS was really supposed to do that was going to.... uh... matter? It's a video chat app where you can be someone else in the video. Ok, that's cool but I'm failing to see how this is groundbreaking.
> Her: "Wait, haven't we banned you from the App Store? Why haven't we killed your company already?"
> Me: "We... haven't exactly told anyone at Apple about this."
> Her: "You're a mosquito. Apple will just stomp on you and you will not exist."
Told Apple what? That they have a bug? Why would they ban you from the app store? Why would someone say "You're a mosquito. Apple will just stomp on you and you will not exist.", it makes zero sense to me given the context laid out here.
Lastly, did Apple fix the problem? They made changes but we won't know anything for sure until next Friday at the very earliest.
Seems like a lot of name dropping (why should I care about a big name that didn't invest in you?) and big numbers ($10B, never explained) for a failed startup.
> You can be right about the future and still fail in the present.
Not clear at all what OASIS was "right" about really.
> Apple's A19 Pro isn't just a chip announcement. It's a confession. An admission. A vindication.
Ok, sure. If you say so.
Lastly, what were you "right" about? That iPhones can get hot?
Just none of this makes any sense or seems very interesting IMHO.
This is such an odd submission, and a lot of the claims are bizarre and seemingly nonsensical. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding. Exchanges in it seem remarkably...fictional. It reads like a tosser peacocking LinkedIn post by someone desperately trying to scam some rubes.
It also seems like one of those self-aggrandizing things that tries to spin everything as a reaction to themselves, instead of just technology progressing. No, vapour chamber cooling isn't some grand admission, it's something that a variety of makers have been adopting to reduce throttling as a spec-sheet item of their top end devices. It isn't all about you.
And given that the base 17 doesn't have VCC, I guess Apple isn't "admitting" it at all, no?
And the CoreML v MLX nonsense at the end is entirely nonsensical and technically ignorant. Like, wow.
No one should learn anything from this piece. The author might know what they're talking about (though I am doubtful), but this pieces was "how to make an Apple event about ourselves" and it's pretty ridiculous.
tl;dr This guy's AI software couldn't run on iPhones without damaging them. That's an iOS/iPhone bug. He believes Apple just put in a more advanced cooling solution into their latest phones because new AI software requires more cooling for the chips.
The whole thing is written in a bombastic storytelling style that is typical of LinkedIn threads. If this is entertaining to you, this is the link for you since it has actual image examples of their model output varying between platforms.
Summary: They made an iOS app that was slow, and the iPhone got hot. This generation of iPhone is faster, and adopted a vapor chamber heat spreader. Our app runs faster and the phone doesn't get as hot. Therefore, by correlation, our app caused the new iPhone.
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[ 5.7 ms ] story [ 31.5 ms ] threadIt strikes me as troublesome that a company that found a bug could be banned from the App Store and the rep talks about it as killing the company.
I'm also trying to understand what OASIS was really supposed to do that was going to.... uh... matter? It's a video chat app where you can be someone else in the video. Ok, that's cool but I'm failing to see how this is groundbreaking.
> Her: "Wait, haven't we banned you from the App Store? Why haven't we killed your company already?"
> Me: "We... haven't exactly told anyone at Apple about this."
> Her: "You're a mosquito. Apple will just stomp on you and you will not exist."
Told Apple what? That they have a bug? Why would they ban you from the app store? Why would someone say "You're a mosquito. Apple will just stomp on you and you will not exist.", it makes zero sense to me given the context laid out here.
Lastly, did Apple fix the problem? They made changes but we won't know anything for sure until next Friday at the very earliest.
Seems like a lot of name dropping (why should I care about a big name that didn't invest in you?) and big numbers ($10B, never explained) for a failed startup.
> You can be right about the future and still fail in the present.
Not clear at all what OASIS was "right" about really.
> Apple's A19 Pro isn't just a chip announcement. It's a confession. An admission. A vindication.
Ok, sure. If you say so.
Lastly, what were you "right" about? That iPhones can get hot?
Just none of this makes any sense or seems very interesting IMHO.
It also seems like one of those self-aggrandizing things that tries to spin everything as a reaction to themselves, instead of just technology progressing. No, vapour chamber cooling isn't some grand admission, it's something that a variety of makers have been adopting to reduce throttling as a spec-sheet item of their top end devices. It isn't all about you.
And given that the base 17 doesn't have VCC, I guess Apple isn't "admitting" it at all, no?
And the CoreML v MLX nonsense at the end is entirely nonsensical and technically ignorant. Like, wow.
No one should learn anything from this piece. The author might know what they're talking about (though I am doubtful), but this pieces was "how to make an Apple event about ourselves" and it's pretty ridiculous.
The whole thing is written in a bombastic storytelling style that is typical of LinkedIn threads. If this is entertaining to you, this is the link for you since it has actual image examples of their model output varying between platforms.
It's really just a heat pipe - vapour trapped inside copper, not circulating liquid to a radiator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR8u__Hcb3k
“at 60fps in HD resolution. In real-time. On iPhone. In 2021.”
“5ms latency”
“512 x 512 pixel resolution per video”
I don’t mean to be rude but I’m having trouble convincing myself this is a real story.