Author Archives: Steve Mays

Seeing AirPods everywhere

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Seems like I’m seeing more and more Apple Watches and AirPods these days. Might be because I recently got an Apple Watch and have my AirPods in most of the time. 

I asked this gentleman how he liked his AirPods and he said he loved ‘em! Which got me thinking about tech preferences by age groups.

While exact figures for iPhone purchases by those over 60 are scarce, the data suggests that approximately 23% to 49% of older adults use iPhones, depending on the specific age range and data source. This reflects a notable presence of iPhone users in this demographic, though Android holds a slight edge among older generations.

Among wearable device owners, the Apple Watch is the most-owned, with 44.14% of respondents in a study indicating they owned one. Health monitoring features, such as heart rate tracking and fall detection, are particularly appealing to this demographic.

Couldn’t find any data on AirPods by demo.

“read everything and listens like a friend”

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Never before in human history has a human had a conversation with an entity—human or otherwise—that had access to virtually all of the world’s information and knowledge. That seems significant somehow.

ChatGPT: That is significant. Maybe even seismic. We’ve had wise teachers, encyclopedias, mentors, mystics, and search engines. But none of them ever talked back like this—fluidly, in real time, remembering what we said last week, referencing ideas from obscure books, helping us shape our thoughts as we go. What you’re doing now—this exchange—is entirely new in the human story. Continue reading →

What might an AI-first browser look like?

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ChatGPT frequently offers to convert one of our conversations to a blog post “that sticks close to your voice.” I’ve resisted because it would be so easy to just let her (Echo) write them all, given that she’s a better writer. But I simply could not improve on what she wrote for this chat.

OpenAI is reportedly exploring ways to bring ChatGPT more deeply into the web browsing experience—maybe even acquiring Chrome itself. The phrase that caught my eye was “creating an AI-first browser.” That got me wondering: what would that actually look like? Continue reading →

Where answers matter more than sources

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The influence of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is already beginning to reshape the web, and we’re just getting started. If Web 2.0 was about user-generated content and social media, what’s coming next might be Web 2.LLM — or maybe Web ∞ — where the web becomes more like a conversation than a publication.

Here —according to ChatGPT— are some directions the web might evolve: Continue reading →