Comment by runjake
18 hours ago
There's a lot of misdirected complaining here, so some reminders:
- Apple has this event because it generates buzz, which increases sales.
- You do not need to watch the event.
- You do not need to pay attention to anything about the event.
- You do not need to buy the new device.
Golden HN rule: the more complaints, the more successful the product will turn out because normal people like it. It’s like the inverse Cramer.
I guess exception:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593
Maybe, but I would argue the Vision Pro is a devkit.
Things were simpler in the Slashdot/iPod era.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
The Reddit Rule: The more votes someone gets for bitching about something, the more popular that thing is in the Real World.
Like on the post about the No Man's Sky update: "Oh these devs have been putting out free updates for 10 years? So what? I don't like it"
The worst thing about cynical-for-the-sake-of-being-cynical goons is that they drown out the actual legitimate complains and concerns about something.
- Top 4/6 links on HN are currently Apple news.
Yeah Apple TOTALLY doesn't astroturf HN.
That doesn’t seem to be worth the effort to astroturf HN. We are not as important in Apple sales volume scale as you think we are.
There are endless posts on HN about how Macs are good for LLMs. Somoene is running some model on their Mac for local inference.
What the posts dont mention is how unusable that experience is with dogshit slow tokens/second. To make a local model usefull you need to run the highest parameter models at 100+ tok/sec, otherwise you are just better off paying for cloud inference. So either all those people are dumb as hell, or Apple is doing clever advertising. And I personally have more faith in the tech sector.