They are scared that Meta and other popular apps might just abandon the AppStore altogether or offer significant advantage for side loaders. This is the problem with having too tight of a control, Apple is always living in fear of losing control.
Apple delayed their effort 'indefinitely' to work on cheaper Vision Pro. They are at least 3-5 years behind Meta at this point. And if past is any sign of the future, Zuck is not slowing down this effort anytime soon for Apple to catch up.
This is going to be a very interesting platform battle to watch.
It's helpful to also look at what do the developers and companies (everyone outside of top 5/10 big tech companies) get out of this. They get open access to weights of SOTA LLM models that take billions of dollars to train and 10s of billions a year to run the AI labs that make these. They get the freedom to fine tune them, to distill them, and to host them on their own hardware in whatever way works best for their products and services.
Interesting. So llama isn't actually open source! That would partially explain why they feel their moat isn't compromised.
Also... Wow, Mark Zuckerberg is such a liar! Implying that llama is open source when it isn't, while at the same time trying to gather the goodwill of FOSS developers.
If by "everyone else" here you mean 3 or 4 large players trying to create a regulatory moat around themselves then I am fine with them getting locked out and not being able to create a moat for next 3 decades.
Creating content with AI will surely be helpful for social media to some extent but I think it's not that important in larger scheme of things, there's already a vast sea of content being created by humans and differentiation is already in recommending the right content to right people at right time.
More important is the products that Meta will be able to make if the industry standardizes on Llama. They would have the front seat in not just with access the latest unreleased models but also settings the direction of progress and next gen LLM optimizes for. If you're Twitter or Snap or TikTok or compete with Meta on the product then good luck in trying to keep up.
And lets not forget the hills. Driving in SF is no joke. In my 20+ rides with Waymo, it feels that it drives more confidently than most Uber drivers I've had experience with.
This is a clear violation of GDPR. The GDPR emphasizes the right to erasure (Article 17) and data minimization (Article 5). These principles require that personal data be:
* Kept for no longer than necessary
* Deleted upon request or when no longer needed
Both of these conditions are met when someone "deletes" a picture from their device.
This bug basically proved that Apple is non compliant with this and there's no way that EU is going to ignore this big of a violation. If found guilty then they can fine Apple 20 million euros or 4% of global turnover(revenue) which is > $4 billion.
Protections under GDPR apply to both local storage and cloud storage.
In this case both local storage and cloud storage are provided by same company so that distinction doesn’t matter but this storage location agnostic coverage of GDPR comes in handy on Android.
