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I don’t like it but Apple—like other firms— aims at making money of the masses.

The truth is there are a ton of folks like this. As long as there’s an ad campaign that gives them permission to offload a human experience to a tech company they’ll feel ok doing it. That’s gross but it makes people more and more reliant on apple’s latest feature and so keeps them locked in their ecosystem. I see why Apple does it.

People who know better look down on this but there’s lots of folks with money who don’t know better.

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I figure expectations/behaviors will shift once this becomes the new norm. That 5-second birthday present or shallow prospectus summary will become obvious pretty soon after a wide uptake and nullify any advantage.

Novelty is a hell of a thing. There’ll be something equally as hollow coming up next.

Pretty sure the birthday thing already is obvious. Has been for some 3+ years now - for at least as long as my Samsung Galaxy phone keeps generating this kind of stuff out of random photos in my gallery, on its own, every couple days. Google Photos has effectively been doing the same thing for much longer, too.

I mean, all those auto-composed photo slideshows universally suck; you've seen a couple (per vendor), you've seen them all. Easiest way to tell - music. Second easiest way - goofy title, some photos don't match the purported theme.

As for the prospectus video - that I suspect would fly, and will fly for many years to come, because whether it works depends entirely on how well this guy can sell it. Being able to talk off skimming the summary of the Cliff's Notes of a book, without the teacher realizing you didn't read the actual thing, is a skill people tend to master in high school.

I see so many ads for tech features that have been around for absolutely forever. I refuse to believe anybody uses a web browser and does not know it can auto-fill info for you, considering you will get a prompt literally every time you enter any password or address about it. The photo-collage thing is ancient, and even ML image-recognition is not new. Likewise credit-card tap-to-pay has been ubiquitous for 10+ years? I feel like the proud ads for this kind of stuff is a weird offshoot of marketing budgets for very solidified product categories.

Correction: people in high school think they've fooled the teacher into believing they've read the book when they haven't.

I'm pretty sure most teachers could tell you which of their students actually did the reading.

> I'm pretty sure most teachers could tell you which of their students actually did the reading.

If they could tell but did not, they were derelict in their duties.

I chose to believe our teachers were overworked, and some of us were good enough at extrapolating on the go and selling it, than that our teachers cared so little they'd just play along.

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