Apple used to brag that its products just work. Now your expensive Mac comes with a bloated AI experiment you didn’t request, can’t fully remove, and are expected to thank Tim Cook for. When customers start writing tools to delete your flagship feature, that’s not innovation.
The lack of AI was actually a huge selling point for me with the Neo (even though the price was already a huge sell). It’s a shame that they’re now falling for the same trick as the rest of the industry.
I think you mean Tim Apple
It’s John Apple now!
(Tim Cook resigned. John Ternus is the current CEO of Apple)
Tim didn’t really resign/retire. They promoted him to Chairman.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/10/11/tim-cook-visits-china-for-the-third-time-in-2026
TLDR: it’s a “”“news”“” article about a Reddit post and does not remotely represent the average Apple user
futurism.com “articles” as we know them. I don’t care if they are in line with my views or not. It is cheap engagement slop.
Apparently an unpopular opinion here but I highly appreciate the move by Apple to embrace local AI. Sure it’s not perfect in any sense, but I like the direction.
I don’t think that’s unpopular at all. Local AI is the only AI future worth pursuing.
Same here. Local is not the problem. Control is.
Project link: https://omlahore.github.io/RemoveMacAI/
The selling point for me when buying apple products was the shitty implementation of AI. That was the USP. Now they partnered with google so yeah… I don’t use google in my daily life, degoogled a long time ago, don’t want to come near them with a ten foot pole and the new AI shit is actually reskinned Google…
What! This is outrageous! Or Acceptable! I don’t even know anymore. Thanks Algorithm!
I am whelmed
Does this unlock the neural cores to operate as regular cores? Cuz if not, who cares? I already turned it off.
