Search in general on all redesigned Apple apps is like solving a puzzle to figure out where it is. In some apps you have to be on a specific page and then scroll up to magically make it pop out. So intuitive...

I think this applies to almost all modern software.

Apple Mail automatically adds calendar entries from attachments in my junk mail to my calendar. I get tons of spam/phishing mails with appointments attached that i now manually have to delete from my calendar all the time. There is no dedicated setting to disable this, according to Apple support, deactivating Siri integration inside calendar and mail app settings will prevent this, but it doesn't.

MS Outlook has switched from their native code to a WebView inside a wrapper and that means we're back in the 90s when it comes to email. Basic features like adding an image inline no longer work, the option to enable this is buried in some badly worded menus and of course it resets after each update and also gets renamed in each update.

Software quality, especially from the big corps, is just absolute garbage these days. Designed by people that don't use it and built by people that have 6 months of web dev experience.

Which is now piece by piece becoming the Desktop version by wrapping it in some WebView junk.

This is exactly the problem.

Companies currently are being sold that they can replace employees with little agents that cost $20 to $200 a month.

But then they realize that the $200 last for about 3.5 hours on day 1 of the month and the rest will be charged by the token. Which will then cost as much or more than the employee did, but with a nice guaranteed quota of non determinism and failure rate included.

I personally don't know a single person that would pay $80 for some LLM. Most people i know pay nothing, or got a 1 year sub of a phone purchase or similar.

Also, everyone here conveniently always forgets the huge hardware and datacenter upfront investment that MS have already made. That cost alone will never be recouped with current prices.

If you can't even run the thing close to profitable, then how will you ever actually profit?

But don't worry guys, your robotaxi will recoup your tesla purchase within a year while you sleep.

I think this time is the first time that it will actually hurt all the large corps investing gazillions of dollars into AI infra.

Shipping some ads in windows? Doesn't really hurt you, it makes you extra money. Sure, some customers get a little annoyed, but who cares.

But this time they invested huge amounts of money to chase something that will likely never get profitable and return enough to pay off.

I think these kinds of problems were already solved using ML and to a pretty high accuracy.

But now everyone is trying to make chatbots do that job and they are awful at it.

In my experience, most devs and companies don't consider the dependencies they load 'their' code. They only look at the code they write, not everything they deploy.

Making a bicycle with square wheels is not being ahead of it's time, though.

Most of the time MS is actually delivering something successful is when they are very late or bought it and put their sticker on it.

Gaming is a massive loss leader, MS will never make back the money they invested to buy other publishers. The subscription model will fail aswell, prices will have to go up more, to try and actually make some profit.