John Gruber

It's just that it's Google's underlying AI technology that's powering it.

I think the biggest question is how good can that be?

How good can an AI system be if you're not the company that controls and made the underlying models?

Nobody, we don't really have a good example of that yet.

Yeah.

And Image Playgrounds is by far and away the funniest image generation tool because it's so bad.

I don't know.

It takes an enormous amount of work, an enormous amount of prompting to make...

an image whose quality is embarrassingly bad compared to any other tool on the market that lets you do it.

Why did they do it?

I think that's a good framing, and I think sometimes Apple, hopefully, when something is new, it takes them some time to find their footing.

And I feel like the whole thing two years ago, put aside the actual legal implications of false advertising.

It's just, I feel like they got caught up in the hype and the rush, and we need to have something big to announce in June 2024.

ready or not, and it clearly was or not.

Whereas the Apple way is, and they've emphasized this, Tim Cook has emphasized it many times, I don't know, maybe Steve Jobs didn't, because I don't think he wanted to make an admission like that, but Cook has admitted many times that they do not aspire to be first, they aspire to be best.

And if that means not being first, so be it, right?

I mean, that was, again, going back to the iPhone.

There was a whole smartphone market.

Blackberry and Research in Motion was a big company, and Microsoft was all in on Windows Mobile, and it was like, hey, Apple's late to the game.

Nobody remembers that entire era.