The revisionism about Apple is fascinating. "Apple is sitting out AI", "Apple is smart to see through the hype"
This is the same company that got caught pants down by making iPhone 15 "built ground up for Apple Intelligence". They breathlessly touted their superiority, and when they failed to deliver, tucked their tail behind the legs and went to their rival / frenemy Google for their model.
So nope, Apple isnt sitting this out. Apple is scared, and very much so. You're seeing the valiant fight of a dying giant.
Things don't have any inherent value. It is priced at a level that a buyer thinks it is worth.
A gallon of oil can be $3 or $6 depending on whether someone is willing to pay. It can also be $10 but only if people are willing to buy it at $10 if not "prices will come down to match the demand" - another way of saying it would be $9..$8...$7...$6 until it matches a buyer at which point gas is $6.
This is what I am trying to express. There is no "inherent price" or "inherent value" there is only the real value that it is bought at (in terms of money). There can be other values (non money) like if someone is willing to swap something for it etc.
The headline doesnt match what is being written. It talks about author's experience with Google, and how more natural language queries are more in use instead of keyword search. But that's not the web, right?
This will be like writing an article saying "The cars are changing, and we are not going back" because Uber made a UI update.
> In late 2025, Chinese provincial disciplinary authorities announced an investigation into Xu Hao, then chairman of Guizhou Big Data Group, for suspected violation of party discipline and national law.5 Apple’s services continued without disruption, and the company made no corresponding public disclosure. But the episode illustrated something that rarely surfaces in earnings calls or investor filings. Apple is not responsible for storing its Chinese user data; instead, a Chinese state-backed company fulfills this function. That company operates inside a system where CCP authorities can intervene directly, quietly, and without any formal public process.
It should send shudders down anybody's spine to know one of the bastions of human rights is very very comfortable being in bed with CCP. I know Apple is seen as the company that stands up for its user, except in China where it is willing to bend over backwards.
What's more concerning is the selective disclosure. They dont talk about this at all, and let Apple enthusiasts weave a clean image for them.
Google bought DoubleClick in 2008. That's nearly 20 years back. Either you're suggesting Google Search has been bad for 20 years, or you're just being willfully ignorant.
Because parasitic entities tend to misbehave. There's always been other search engines, Google is in slow decline (or accelerated, depending on your viewpoint) so blocking them because they slop users into oblivion. Sometimes you have to say: This his how far I was willing to let this go and now it's over.
heres the rub, whos to say in the future or even now that google is really respecting the robot.txt in the first place. I know for a fact that my sites are still getting hit by AI bots but I'm "blocking" them via cloudflare. Way too many IP's originating from data center ISP. Just saying respecting the robot.txt maybe just PR lip service.
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