Federico Viticci

Founder and Editor-in-Chief at MacStories

Founder and Editor-in-Chief @MacStoriesNet & @ClubMacStories. Not on Twitter anymore. 👋 On Mastodon 🐘 @[email protected]

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How Could Apple Use Open-Source AI Models?

2 weeks ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

Yesterday, Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information, published an outstanding story detailing the internal turmoil at Apple that led to the delay of the highly anticipated Siri AI features last month. From the article: In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT to a thunderous response from the tech industry and public. Within Giannandrea’s AI team, however, senior leaders didn’t respond with a sense of urgency, according to former engineers who were on the team at the time.
How Could Apple Use Open-Source AI Models?

2 weeks ago | machash.com | Federico Viticci

Yesterday, Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information, published an outstanding story detailing the internal turmoil at Apple that led to the delay of the highly anticipated Siri AI features last month. From the article: In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT to a thunderous response from the tech industry and…
Is Electron Really That Bad?

3 weeks ago | machash.com | Federico Viticci

I’ve been thinking about this video by Theo Browne for the past few days, especially in the aftermath of my story about working on the iPad and realizing its best apps are actually web apps. I think Theo did a great job contextualizing the history of Electron and how we got to this point where the majority of…
Using Simon Willison’s LLM CLI to Process YouTube Transcripts in Shortcuts with Claude and Gemini

3 weeks ago | machash.com | Federico Viticci

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Using Simon Willison's LLM CLI to Process YouTube Transcripts in Shortcuts with Claude and Gemini

3 weeks ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

I’ve been experimenting with different automations and command line utilities to handle audio and video transcripts lately. In particular, I’ve been working with Simon Willison’s LLM command line utility as a way to interact with cloud-based large language models (primarily Claude and Gemini) directly from the macOS terminal.
Opening iOS Is Good News for Smartwatches

1 month ago | machash.com | Federico Viticci

Speaking of opening up iOS to more types of applications, I enjoyed this story by Victoria Song, writing at The Verge about the new EU-mandated interoperability requirements that include, among other things, smartwatches: This is a big reason why it’s a good thing that the European Commission recently gave…
Opening iOS Is Good News for Smartwatches

1 month ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

Speaking of opening up iOS to more types of applications, I enjoyed this story by Victoria Song, writing at The Verge about the new EU-mandated interoperability requirements that include, among other things, smartwatches: This is a big reason why it’s a good thing that the European Commission recently gave Apple marching orders to open up iOS interoperability to other gadget makers.
On Apple Allowing Third-Party Assistants on iOS

1 month ago | machash.com | Federico Viticci

This is an interesting idea by Parker Ortolani: what if Apple allowed users to change their default assistant from Siri to something else? I do not want to harp on the Siri situation, but I do have one suggestion that I think Apple should listen to. Because I suspect it is going to take quite some time for the…
On Apple Allowing Third-Party Assistants on iOS

1 month ago | macstories.net | Federico Viticci

This is an interesting idea by Parker Ortolani: what if Apple allowed users to change their default assistant from Siri to something else? I do not want to harp on the Siri situation, but I do have one suggestion that I think Apple should listen to. Because I suspect it is going to take quite some time for the company to get the new Siri out the door properly, they should do what was previously unthinkable. That is, open up iOS to third-party assistants. I do not say this lightly.
App Store Vibes

1 month ago | machash.com | Federico Viticci

Bryan Irace has an interesting take on the new generation of developer tools that have lowered the barrier to entry for new developers (and sometimes not even developers) when it comes to creating apps: Recent criticism of Apple’s AI efforts has been juicy to say the least, but this shouldn’t distract us…