• Petter1@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Yes, but apple doesn’t need to screenshot shit, thats the point, they trained their customers to only use apple apps, where they have full control and force developers to use their AI API to stay relevant.

    Microsoft failed to convince user to use microsoft everywhere except with teams and the office suite

    Google has the relevant data of most microsoft user, and screenshoting this (like scraping) would have allowed microsoft to get to that data without paying google for it

    But that is kinda shady and thus not widely accepted.

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      3 months ago

      But they do, though.

      The use cases they have presented are literally asking for a picture you received last week that contained a particular piece of text, selecting the text and copying it over.

      I know Apple made it seem like AI is magic, but here in the real world that uses real world computers you need to know what’s on the image to do that.

      But hey, no, that’s my point. You understand what taking a screenshot of your desktop looks like. You can grok that to the extent that you can feel weird about the idea of somebody doing that to you every five seconds. You can’t wrap your head around the steps of breaking down all your information to the extent Apple is describing. Yeah, they know exactly what you did and when, and what you looked at and what it said and how it relates to everybody you know and to your activity. But since you can’t intuitively understand what that requires you don’t know enough to feel weird about it.

      That right there is good UX, even if the ultimate level of intrusion is the same or higher.