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Matt Birchler

Woof, come up with a better example for this during iOS 18.1 startup, Apple. Sucking all the life out of the “here’s to the crazy ones” piece is a bad look.

Not the worst crime of all time or anything, but not great for those who are upset about AI feature sucking the humanity out of art.

@matt Do people making this realize that Cliff’s Notes was a way to cheat in school, not a cool productivity hack

@matt I think it was a bad example, but I also think outrage is largely unwarranted

Nobody’s writing poems in their notifications

It’s a notification

@matt “A poem celebrates people who think differently” is just 🧑🏽‍🍳🤌🏽💋

@matt the entire thing is ridiculous but average people probably don’t do what they should and manage notification preferences

I’d literally have no use for this because I get virtually none that I don’t want to see the content of and notification grouping is more than enough because I only let like 4 things bother me or interrupt my flow.

It’s an unnecessary solution to a problem they created.

@matt
An homage to the sort of creative visionaries no longer employed by Apple.

@matt oh no…yeah it’s hard not to read that as the next generation of employees/designers joining and excited to use this text somewhere but not really…idk, treating it with the respect I think it deserves?

I realize how insane it sounds to even say that so who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@mattchristensen For sure, it feels like a perfect example of bad nostalgia IMO.

@matt @neven On top of being a tasteless choice, it’s a terrible summary. It obscures the fact that this is a very recognizable Steve Jobs quote; that it was used by Apple in a campaign where it was famously abbreviated to “Think Different” (not “differently”). Summarizing well-known text in this ignorant, context-free way is LESS helpful than just printing it in full. It misses the point.

And it’s not even a poem; it’s a toast. Every part of this is dumb as hell.

@dwineman @matt I keep wondering what I’m supposed to do with these summaries. Do I decide I can skip the message now? Or is it so I can prioritize the one saying “A distressed message about a car accident”

@neven @matt “A hastily composed stanza celebrates the necessity of prompt emergency services”

@matt hey man, people are in a hurry these days