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The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac

I’ve been sitting on this draft for a few days now, partly because I thought it would turn down the bitterness, and partly because I kept as...

I can see Apple balking at doing something like Sky(if they ever even considered it) because it not only has to share bits of your screen with an LLM, but also because it would have to open up the Mac to third-party automation in a way that it has never done before, and that would be a huge departure from their current approach. And if Sky takes off (let’s face it, the Mac desktop market isn’t really mainstream these days and there is too much AI hype, but just entertain the notion for a bit), that will have the added bonus of highlighting that Apple are completely out of touch with what people want from their computers. A case in point (and stop me if you’ve heard this before): Spotlight has been a complete mess for years, and Apple has done nothing to effectively fix it on any of its platforms–and it would be a perfect place to start integrating AI in a way that would actually make sense and be useful to users.

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