- Application can ask for specific model, if available use it. if not, ask to download it (or try some fallback / alternative)

- User can manage models. So as a user I can clean unused models (and for non-techie have something similar to offloading apps when unused for some period of time).

I'd love using Gemma4 as an example. but thinking of a user. if 10 Apps each uses same model and downloads it, the phone will be bloated.

I still didn't understand if Apple provided a way for multiple apps uses same on-device model (without tricky namespaces and permissions).

I didn't see anything suggesting that's the case.

So if it was broadly used and what charset used by a reasonable amount of the population then yeah I’d of course learn it in early age as I had to learn English.

I’m also not happy on how Apple ended up making 3rd party apps available in the EU. I don’t use it as a developer and as a user because it’s designed to work bad and be non profitable.

There was and I can assume still is bad behaving apps on the AppStore, my security and privacy is my right exactly as my right to compromise my privacy…

This petition vibe coded or not isn’t serving my interests of Apple designing balance that allows a user to decide on their device.

Maybe for some internal usages. but imagine someone from a country using different language and characters gives me a card with their email. It's now far less portable for me to use it. Those days, I surely could picture it and find the email most likely getting it right.

But email as means of international communication, like passport, should be readable as possible or it kills its purpose.

Even with ASCII emails I have, I already sometimes struggle to pass them over phone or other methods :)

That's not the case. it's merely software (exactly like my iPhone 16 lacking the promised AI features claimed at WWDC24).

Anyway as I'm now within the EU with phone I bought before moving to the EU, regional features (or restrictions) depends on the logged in account and device regional settings. Except physical considerations (eSIM design, actual radio transceivers). The hardware is the same thank god.

For daily / home/office this is where the competition is. And it’s not against the Framework.

In raw experience even with latest Swift Air, Apple has a great device benefiting from their optimized and existing production line.

We’re 5-6 years now from Apple silicon and yet the industry didn’t catch up completely.

Battery life, heat, performance and even arm64 isn’t yet a first class citizen on Linux* or Windows.

(* Linux is mostly power management assuming mobility experience is needed)

No:

Colorectal cancer is going up in young people.

Yes:

Various kinds of cancer are going up in later generations. (Definitely at younger ages, possibly at all ages.)

Reminder

This blog endorses colorectal cancer screening. We don’t yet know if colonoscopies are better than other methods of screening (sigmoidoscopy, stool tests), but we do know that screening is better than not screening. When caught early, CRC is highly treatable, often with only surgery (no chemotherapy or radiation) and a return to normal activities within a couple weeks.

Everything is within the EU.

For sending few shirts I ended up paying about EUR20 each just for shipping! (I've wanted to ensure it gets to their house and not a pickup point).

Initially I've went with regular post office, but they've wanted so many documents I've used a 3rd party shipping company.

It always ends with compliance and regulations which shipping companies are being (and charging you) for.

It's crazy that things from china can come at ridiculous price or Amazon in specific region/countries and they 'hacked the system'.

We also had similar headache when my wife forgot her bag (with her work laptop!) on a train to the airport back home while visiting my parents in our home country. The bag was found and my parents took it. but sending it ended up being so complex we eventually found someone kind enough to travel with it. (or you need to have so complex procedures just to explain why it shouldn't be taxed as it's YOUR equipment).

TL;DR - personal shipping is broken. it might be cheaper to visit a friend in Uganda and give him the laptop in person.

All I can find which isn't enough (at least for me), to have an educated conclusion is the following:

Tweet re-tweeting Ahmed Shihab-Eldin:

"After weeks of trying to regain access to my @instagram account, which was temporarily suspended by @accessnow while I was wrongfully detained, I FINALLY got a backup code which allowed me to login only to receive this prompt that my account has been permanently disabled"

Access Now - that I can understand works for human rights. https://www.accessnow.org/about-us/

English Wikipedia:

"On March 3, 2026, Shihab-Eldin was detained by Kuwaiti authorities for resharing news articles about the Iran war;[13][17] the previous day, he had posted images of a U.S. fighter jet crashing over the country.[18] The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported that he had not been seen publicly in Kuwait, where he was visiting family, since March 2, and that he was under arrest over accusations of "spreading false information," "harming national security" and "misusing his mobile phone;"[13][19] the incident occurred as part of a wider wave of crackdowns targeting journalists across different Gulf states amid the war."

Then mentioning his Kuwaiti citizenship was revoked on 29th of April 2026 and earlier some implicit hint? he was released. (though he's American born so I can assume he also has a US Citizenship unless he gave it away at some point)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shihab-Eldin

https://www.ahmedshihabeldin.com/

I see he has been a journalist and activist over the years within context of the Middle East.

But if someone have more details about why he was blocked it would be much more helpful to understand this story.

It depends on what's the abstraction.

Using LLM for coding is 'abstracting' the developer, adding extra layer that can produce code. But it's not abstraction layer of the code itself.

I just hope they won't break anything they don't need to break (which is more concerning usually) and that they won't drop other things that do make sense to keep until transitioned properly (eg. OpenGL as one example)

While many AI integrations are focused on text communication / chat style. A lot of software benefits from non-text interfaces.

I believe at some point OSes and browsers should provide an API to manage models so you'll have access to on-device/remote ones with a simplified interface for the app. Making something standardized that is cross-platform would be fantastic. It also needs to be on mobile devices, so the players that can easily make it happen are mostly Apple and Google. (Meta will follow or vice-versa I guess)

Key-point: it shouldn't be exclusive to promoted models.

(1) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels So the app would be able to query and get the right model(s).

- Rapid changes hurts the trust of your brand and product. In Google case, using a new service product became something you’ll think multiple times as you are more likely to axe it than rivals or specialized equivalents.

- While models currently has no clear winner. Anthropic’s core product is coding. But just as Skype, IE, Netscape their can always be another game changer you cannot count.

- The Pro plan is already limited for true agentinc workflows. The limits now are so bad that a business that relies on it would need bigger plans.

- Anthropic is already in a delicate situation where many devs are frustrated. Dropping or crippling the use even more just means this sector (which I can only assume is a big chunk) would switch to competitors tool that already try to compete.

- Local models, whether as Google sees it “edge” or even further would also take bigger part in the future.

That’s the key. The world is a delicate fabric that changes over time.

It’s nice (or frustrating) reading opinions. Forecasting the future is tricky.

While the world and us humans waste our time arguing, conflicting or dreaming, earth and the universe can easily introduce earthquakes, meteors and other unforeseen events that will have more impact than human made events we already cannot completely forecast.

Hezbollah is not the “main” political party [1]

It is a major part of the government but not the main.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_L...

If they were the main party then it was Lebanon who attacked Israel following the war with Iran and not Hezbollah.

Lebanon is very pragmatic already and they actually have an army which isn’t Hezbollah.

(Sadly as living in Spain for about a year I’m still not in such place to raise this or understand the full steps needed)