The selling point for me when buying apple products was the shitty implementation of AI. That was the USP. Now they partnered with google so yeah… I don’t use google in my daily life, degoogled a long time ago, don’t want to come near them with a ten foot pole and the new AI shit is actually reskinned Google…
Does this unlock the neural cores to operate as regular cores? Cuz if not, who cares? I already turned it off.
TLDR: it’s a “”“news”“” article about a Reddit post and does not remotely represent the average Apple user
futurism.com “articles” as we know them. I don’t care if they are in line with my views or not. It is cheap engagement slop.
Linux has no AI features
False.
No. It’s True.
You can optionally install them, but none are opt-out, all are opt-in
But that means it has features that feature capabilities for ML/AI.
So it’s false. Kind of.
For those Windows users who stumbled on to this post.
Apple used to brag that its products just work. Now your expensive Mac comes with a bloated AI experiment you didn’t request, can’t fully remove, and are expected to thank Tim Cook for. When customers start writing tools to delete your flagship feature, that’s not innovation.
Wasn’t it always Apple’s position: “We know better what users need and if we don’t have some feature it just means that users don’t need it”?
What’s really crazy is that apple had this obnoxious attitude that “they know what users really want”, the users would disagree, they’d complain loudly, then they’d use the software and say “damn… Apple was right, this is better.”
But… That was all before 2010. I can’t think of a single software innovation the company has had since then. Apple used to deliver overpriced, outdated hardware and they only managed to sell it by packaging it with the slickest OS on the market. These days the situation is reversed, Apple is developing their own silicon, they have some of the fastest consumer chips around, and they need it, because their software is nothing to write home about and their prices are still high.
They did some commendable things involving locking phones when lost/stolen/seized by cops.
They’ve also done some typical tech monopoly things with os bloat, slowing down old hardware and poor support for older hardware.
I think you’re right about that. Apple’s policies around user privacy and security from authorities are generally pretty good, certainly better than average for tech companies.
And… Apple has kind of always been monopolistic, and that hasn’t changed a bit.
*Tim Apple
The lack of AI was actually a huge selling point for me with the Neo (even though the price was already a huge sell). It’s a shame that they’re now falling for the same trick as the rest of the industry.
I think you mean Tim Apple
Ah woops you beat me to it!
It’s John Apple now!
(Tim Cook resigned. John Ternus is the current CEO of Apple)
Tim didn’t really resign/retire. They promoted him to Chairman.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/10/11/tim-cook-visits-china-for-the-third-time-in-2026
Project link: https://omlahore.github.io/RemoveMacAI/
What! This is outrageous! Or Acceptable! I don’t even know anymore. Thanks Algorithm!
I am whelmed
