Roger Hawcroft
2 min readMar 3, 2025

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I'm not particularly technologically literate, in spite of being a relatively 'early adopter' (funds being my limitation or, at least, absence of them) but I have used Apple as myprimary computer products since PCs were introduced in the days of Amstrad, Commodore, Apple II and a myriad of other brands with fruity names.

In the approximately 50 years since then I have used a variety of brands, formats, Operating Systems and etc., some quite extensively as a result of employer choice rather than my own.

In all that time, I have not found another brand that has consistently shown the insight, innovation, legacy length, reliability and above all, intuitive interface closely consistent with human instinct and interaction and need.

No, I don't say that Apple products are perfect nor necessarily the 'best' for everything but, at least in my view, nothing ever can be. Products are much like the decisions of government, aptly summed up in the quote "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." I think that Apple have shown themselves to understand that well; perhaps better than virtually other major producer.

My point? - I would rather wait for Apple's application and approach to AI than be tempted to jump onto the early mass marketing of the technology as though it were a panacea in itself, when there are currently so many questionable or unanswered questions and considerations about relevance, context, safety, reliability, privacy and more than I would know.

Thanks for what I consider to be well written and apt content that it would be well for many to read and take heed, unless they enjoy the thrill of being major risk takers.

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Roger Hawcroft
Roger Hawcroft

Written by Roger Hawcroft

Expat Tyke in Australia. Dismayed & depressed at World conflict/poverty/disadvantage/hatred. Buoyed by music, art, literature, nature, animals & birds.

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