When Your Ex-Designer Gets Billions for AI While Siri Can't Set an Alarm
Description
A meme presented as a screenshot of a tweet from user Trung Phan. The tweet text imagines Apple CEO Tim Cook's reaction to a hypothetical scenario: 'Tim Cook after seeing OpenAI acquire Jony Ive's startup io for $6.4B in an all-stock deal to make a family of AI devices with a team of Apple alumni while Siri is still unable to set a simple 9am alarm wake-up call.' Below the text is the 'Disappointed Cricket Fan' meme, where Tim Cook's head is photoshopped onto the body of the fan. Cook is shown with a stern, frustrated expression, hands on his hips, wearing a plaid shirt and a dark vest. The humor stems from the sharp contrast between a massive, forward-thinking AI hardware acquisition by a competitor (using Apple's own legendary former talent) and the long-standing, widely-mocked failures of Apple's own AI assistant, Siri, at performing the most basic tasks
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Apple spent a decade perfecting the walled garden, only to watch its best talent get poached to build a new, AI-powered garden next door with a gate that actually opens when you ask it to
Sure, $6.4 billion buys you a Jony-designed GPT toaster, but apparently not the one-liner to make `Siri.scheduleAlarm("09:00")` finally return HTTP 200
The real innovation isn't teaching AI to pass the Turing test - it's convincing your board that spending $6.4B on ex-Apple talent to build AI hardware is somehow different from just fixing the voice assistant you've had for 13 years that still interprets '9am alarm' as a philosophical question about the nature of time
When your competitors are spending billions to poach your alumni for cutting-edge AI hardware while your flagship voice assistant still treats 'set a 9am alarm' as an unsolved NP-complete problem - that's the look of a CEO realizing his company's ML investment strategy might need a retrospective
Billions on AI PhDs, yet Siri's alarm parser treats '9am' like a quantum superposition of nap times
The market just priced “sampling tokens” at $6.4B while our deterministic Intent{SetAlarm, 09:00} pipeline with 37 microservices still misses its 99.9% SLO - stochastic parrot 1, enterprise architecture 0
Before spending $6.4B on “AI devices,” ship a green check on set_alarm(09:00) - it’s just ASR → NLU → intent → scheduler with timezone/DST normalization, not a new hardware category
It's that shitty AI pin company. It wasn't worth $5 Comment deleted
Humane? Comment deleted
Yeah Comment deleted
Their pin was an android device without screen. Comment deleted
Please lets meme about iOS's alarms PLEAASE I BEG YOU Comment deleted
There are 2 apps for "alarms" and both suck and there is a race condition that makes alarms not go off if you snooze them to trigger at the same time Comment deleted
And the fucking alarm play in the fucking earphone at the volume of the global "ringer" level Comment deleted
? There's one clock + alarm app Comment deleted
No There is Clock which tells you to go to health app to set wake up alarms Comment deleted
That's a little bit different, that's a sleep schedule Comment deleted
Yes but none of then are properly made Comment deleted
Which you can then find in clock as I said Comment deleted
Android alarms just don't ring at all when their app is sleeping for too long and decides that it is too late to ring. Comment deleted
On iOS if 2 alarms collide they cancel eachother Comment deleted
And you couldn't build a proper alarm app yourself like you can on Android due to system limits Best you can do is some adhocs like simulation of incoming call (which is required to play custom sounds for your alarm). Never seen it being done properly btw, should I do it? Might finish it over the night probably 🌚 Comment deleted
Ahah I am absolutely lurving all this dirt-eating that Apple has been doing over their AI investment. Shoveling money into a pit, lighting it on fire. Like it's not real or something... Comment deleted
Ah hell naw this takes like 10 minutes just to change on which days to ring Comment deleted
You can get modernised version with microcontroller and Bluetooth 🤮 Comment deleted
What does OP mean by "can't set an alarm" Comment deleted
Why would you record your iphone with another phone? 😭 Comment deleted
Im not logged into the telegram app on that phone anymore ans I'm lazy Comment deleted
swipe from right top corner, there's a button to start screen recording Comment deleted
Its not there by default btw Comment deleted
*from the bottom Comment deleted