Imagine a Mac that told you when it was developing a problem. A Mac that could identify a rogue app demanding too much memory, or a component displaying symptoms that often come before it fails.

Predictive maintenance

This isn’t such a far-fetched reality, not only this, but it’s one that would be a finer and more focused expression of machine intelligence than asking your fridge to order you a liter of milk.

This is already here in some industries, it even has a name, it’s called, “Predictive Maintenance”, and I think it should be woven inside of every Mac.

Apple already has diagnostic and recovery tools built-inside Macs, and receives huge quantities of anonymized crash reports. This means Apple already has the data it needs to put through data analytics systems in order to identify failure trends, patterns, and symptoms. All it needs to do is connect this to the Macs (or iOS devices) you already use, and create some incredibly complex and hard to develop algorithms (the difficult bit).

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