Adobe invented subscription bundles? In that sense did the Creative Cloud copy iCloud?

When word came out that Tim Cook was shifting Apple to a service first business people lost their mind.

I think the future (whether we like it or not) is a single general computing device (thin client, true laptop replacement) that can fit in one’s pockets, communicate and cast to terminals, and help power a set of wearables like glasses.

That’s going to take a level of vertical integration that Apple is best positioned to do.

>I think the future (whether we like it or not) is a single general computing device (thin client, true laptop replacement) that can fit in one’s pockets, communicate and cast to terminals, and help power a set of wearables like glasses.

It's hard for me to think of a worse future for computing.

  "Citizen, you are not wearing your computer-glasses, I'll need to look up your citizen-score manually. Please come with me to detention."

  "Yes, it's as the doctor says, myopia is unavoidable these days, now that computer-glasses are state mandated."

  "Officer, here is every single person who traversed the crime scene +/- 30 hours of the crime."

  "Social media addiction spirals out of control as users can no longer even remove notifications from their field of view."

  "Malware causes car crashes pop-ups obscure drivers."

  "After she broke up with me, her computer-glasses rendered me invisible to her field of view."

  "My computer-glasses were hacked and the attackers live-streamed me having sex with my wife."

etc.

I feel that the push will not be towards a general computing device though, but rather to a curated computing device sort of like the iPhone or iPad. Basically general in theory but actually vendor restricted inside a walled garden.

With improved cellular and possibly future satellite connectivity I feel that this would also be more of a thin client than a local first device, since companies want that recurring cloud subscription revenue over a single lump sum.

That's the present, not the future.

The teams working on Samsung DeX and Moto Smart Connect have arguably been beating on this for some time now…even Google is starting to lean into this with their Pixel devices.

I think Apple disagrees on thin clients, judging by how they continue to add massive compute resources to their devices. On AI for example they seem to be including the resources for quite a lot of inference to happen on-device.

So what is on the network? Copyrighted content: easier to stream that, and easier rights control. Connection: it’s not like your friends and family can be “on device.” Cold storage AKA backups. Geo data. Live data.

I don't believe that this is going to be the case simply because it's more expensive.

Sure, Apple can and will do it, but hardly anyone has an iPhone in, say, India or is willing to shell out this much for a phone.

This business model will be largely restricted to developed countries where Apple has an established presence. Other companies either can't or are unwilling to go in Apple's footsteps.

The ongoing state of the world is not supportive of this concept.

Meh. I’ve never used my x20 Max account in OpenCode because the Oauth solution was clearly “hacky”.

But to me the appeal of OpenCode is that I can mix and match APIs and local models. I have DeepSeek R1 doing research while KLM is planning and doing code reviews and o4 mini breaking down screenshots into specs while local QWEN is doing the work.

My experience with bugs has also been the exact opposite of what you described.

KLM the airline ;) ? Or do you mean GLM?

And you let local QWEN write the code for you? Is the output any good or comparable to frontier models?

This is like asking why you can use ChatGPT in the Claude desktop app. “They are both Electron apps. What’s the problem?”

I’d say the vast majority of people on OpenCode aren’t using CC in combination with Codex.

It’s CC with Qwen and KLM and other OSS and/or local models.

OP is responding to an article that largely frames Anthropic as clueless.

I don't think it is intending to frame the move as clueless, but rather short-sighted. It could very well be a good move for them in the short term.

And coincidentally it started off as a Raspberry Pi project.

Your response reads like status quo par for the course.

The same thinking that fueled the "Just Say No" and "this is your brain on drug's" campaigns in the 80s/90s. Because we all know that cutting off access via stone cold sobriety and absolute illegality under the law is the right solution.

Straw man response. I didn’t say anything about that.

I’m trying to counter the idea that a consistent heroin dependence is the “least bad substance” when there are clearly numerous drugs that are much less toxic over the long term.

I said nothing about best techniques for dealing with people who have addictions. My goal is to avoid having being read these comments and think that because they’re smarter they’ll be able to handle and benefit from a stable opioid dependence. It’s exactly how one of my friends got started

If you enjoy working out of the terminal and CLI/TUI's then it's not even close. Gemini, Codex, CoPilot, and every other CLI I can think of are awful. Stumbling, bumbling and you'd be lucky to keep your file tree in tact even with tight permissions (short of a sandbox).

Claude Code feels like my early days when pair programming was all the rage.

If you have the time OpenCode comes the closest and lets you work across providers seamless.

I’ll fill in the part between OPs story and “then they all clapped” that he left out.

He’s likely talking about “Save As”ing or scraping the DOM for rendered HTML/CSS and feeding that to an LLM to convert to actual in app wired up components.

Add in presumably ignoring the license of the scraped documents.

eventually you will be able to generate a database schema/api by just feeding saas app html to an llm. you wont get everything, but you will get close