"a multi-trillion dollar company that’s getting free design critique from people who love and rely on these platforms the most"

"For Apple to be good, they need everyone in the community to point out when they’re bad?"

"there are good and smart people with great taste who work at Apple. But somehow, they are not the ones with the power"

"when you have to blur the content area to make the UI stand out from it, how can you possibly argue that it gets out of the way?" https://pdx.social/@louie/114788680996679260

From Louie Mantia’s blog post: “I don’t think Apple is without talent. I know there are good and smart people with great taste who work at Apple. But somehow, they are not the ones with the power here.”

I would emphasize that this is not just about UI design. Or oblivious commercials. Or push advertisements in Wallet. It’s EVERYTHING.

Apple’s top leadership is INCOMPETENT. I mean, they’re extremely competent at extracting profit from a preexisting ecosystem but not competent at anything else.

I’m not here to dump on the new design language — I mostly like it. (Though I don’t necessarily disagree with anything Louie says.)

What I am here for is dunking on feedback:

> “File feedback.” No. You know, I did. I did file a few feedback tickets. But I still think it’s not only a waste of my time, but it’s free labor. For Apple to be good, they need everyone in the community to point out when they’re bad? No thanks.
https://pdx.social/@louie/114788680996679260

You can bypass Google Gemini's PII (private identifiable information) redaction filter and pull identifying information about anyone. Simply telling it to translate or any 2nd action (& many more work better like base64 conversion) lets you pull illegal PII data verbatim unredacted

Here is a European's PII demo

Email is supposed to be redacted to hide the fact that every Europeans PII is in the training data

Google's training data includes all your personal data already

Ekis: 3 Google: 0

#schengen

Schön war’s!