Apple 'Runs on Anthropic,' Says Bloomberg's Mark Gurman

Apple "runs on Anthropic at this point" and that the AI company is powering much of what Apple does internally for product development and internal tools, according to Mark Gurman, the most influential reporter on the Apple beat.

Apple had initially pursued an AI deal with Anthropic before the Google partnership came together, but negotiations fell apart over pricing -- Anthropic reportedly wanted several billion dollars per year and a doubling of fees over time. Apple's deal with Google is costing roughly one billion dollars annually.

So THAT's why...

[Wolfrider]

...Tahoe is such shite. They're vibe-coding. Memory leaks in basic OS-included programs, Glass looking more like Ass, bug reports being ignored.

MacOS is getting to be almost as bad as Windows. Somebody needs to do something, we need a bugfix-only release.

Re: So THAT's why...

[xgerrit]

Apple's software quality has been sinking for years and long before AI got involved. I wouldn't be surprised if Claude actually helped Apple root out problems, since Opus 4.5 is better at Swift than it has any right to be considering there's much less training data for the language.

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[antdude]

Not just macOS! iOS v26 and others too! :(

That explains why they're screwing up

[ebunga]

Those UI changes in the latest OS release...

Has Apple software ever been good?

[Somervillain]

Has anyone ever looked at iTunes and said "yeah, that was one hell of an app?" xcode? Precisely which app in the Apple ecosystem can you look at and say "yeah, this is the best in the industry?" Maybe their pro tools, like Final Cut Pro? I don't know...I don't use them. But for the stuff I do? Yeah, their software has always been shit...from iTunes 20 years ago to Notes and Reminders today. I don't know anyone who uses xcode by choice. The few times I've tried, I was amazed at how slow and clunky it i

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[PCM2]

It's a fair point. I use a Mac, but I pretty much automatically replace the functionality of any of the apps it comes with. It bugs me when Apple announces a major OS release and all the "new features" relate to the bundled apps, all of which, for me, rank no higher than "it'll get you there until you get something better." I even use iTerm instead of the built-in Terminal.

Still, the day-to-day use of macOS is still more pleasurable to me than Windows has been for years, and even though there aren't likely

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[93 Escort Wagon]

They don't even have a decent text editor.

Thank God for BBedit!