Sankul R. Mandavia

@FaibaJTL ac 23458 low quality internet. Pls assist asap. Lot of issues with JTL lately.

@FaibaJTL Pls confirm you will not charge us for your own issues.

@smandavia Hello, apologies for the delay in restoration. Our maintenance team is aware that the internet service has been affected by a fiber cut and will reschedule. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. ^MN

@FaibaJTL it has been over 24 hours without internet. Are you guys serious? Ac 23458. I suggest you get serious and reply with timelines. I also expect a credit to my account. Pls respond urgently!!!!??

@FaibaJTL Dm sent

@smandavia Hello, kindly share your account number we check and assist. ^DM

Dear @FaibaJTL no internet ac 23458. Pls advise and assist urgently. Thanks.

@FaibaJTL Pls advise. There is no internet. Since yesterday.

@smandavia Good afternoon, the link is currently down due to a fiber cut. We have notified our maintenance desk to schedule service restoration under reference ISS-2026-82525. Apologies. ^FM

@FaibaJTL Pls urgently share update. How long is it going to take?

@Safaricom_Care Seems I also have to change calls to safaricom for it to work. Once again, biometrics need to be re done. You really need to scrap this project.

@Safaricom_Care It doesn't work. Doesn't see the sim.

@Safaricom_Care my sim 1 is an esim, from another Provider. Sim 2 is physical.and is safaricom. What do I do? App used to work, then logged me out suddenly and wont let me back in.

@MihrThakar I gave up. It keeps logging me out and won't let me back in despite changing data to safaricom.

Safaricom says only SIM 1 should be used, amidst backlash from the SIM 2 community.

@GathogoBMwangi @SafaricomPLC @Safaricom_Care Absolutely inconsiderate migration.

Dear @SafaricomPLC @Safaricom_Care this is utmost inconvenience for users of Mpesa outside the country. You have logged out all of us and the only way to login again is to have the Safaricom network connected, which doesn’t work on roaming. One had to wait to come to Ke so they can activate the app. Now tell me, what do you want me to do with the money in my mpesa? How will i continue using it?? Huge disappointment!

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@gothburz @grok is this true?

I'm the VP of AI at Apple. I've been here since 2011. I watched Siri launch. It was revolutionary. For about six months. Then Google Assistant came out. Then Alexa. Then ChatGPT. We kept saying we were "focused on privacy." Privacy is what you say when you're losing. Three years ago the board asked about our AI strategy. I showed them a slide that said "On-Device Intelligence." They nodded. They didn't know what it meant. Neither did I. But it had a picture of a neural network. Neural networks look impressive. Even when they don't work. Last year someone asked Siri to set a timer. It opened a Wikipedia article about timers. Tim saw the meme. He didn't laugh. He scheduled a "strategic offsite." Offsites are where we go to admit failure privately. I presented three options. Option 1: Build our own LLM. That would take four years. We don't have four years. Option 2: Buy a startup. We looked at twelve. They all wanted $40 billion. For teams of nine people. Who would leave after the acquisition. Option 3: Call Google. The room went quiet. Google is the enemy. We've spent fifteen years pretending we're better than Google. Our entire brand is "not Google." But Google has TPUs. We don't. Google has Gemini. We have Siri. Siri still can't reliably add items to a grocery list. I called Sundar. He picked up on the first ring. He'd been waiting. They all wait. Eventually everyone calls Google. I asked for TPU access. He said yes. I asked for Gemini integration. He said yes. I asked how much. He said one billion dollars. I said that's a lot. He said "per year." I paused. He said "you don't really have a choice." He was smiling. I could hear it. We announced it as a "strategic partnership." Partnership means we're paying them. The press release said we're "enhancing Siri's capabilities." Enhancing means replacing. We said the new Siri arrives "late 2026." Late 2026 means 2027. Maybe 2028. Definitely not 2026. A reporter asked if this means Apple lost the AI race. Our comms team said we're "thoughtfully deliberate." That's not an answer. But it has enough syllables to sound like one. Internally, we're calling it "Project Humble Pie." Someone suggested "Project Brain Transplant." HR flagged that as "not brand-aligned." The engineers are relieved. They've been trying to make Siri work for years. Now they can blame Google. Blame is a renewable resource. Tim did a podcast. He said AI is "a profound technology." He's never used ChatGPT. I showed him once. He asked why it was typing so slowly. I said that's how it works. He said "Siri should be faster." I said "Siri will be Google." He said "don't say that publicly." I won't. Publicly, we're "leveraging industry partnerships." Leveraging means surrendering. But with dignity. We still have the best hardware. We still have the ecosystem. We still have the brand. We just don't have AI. So we're renting it. From the company we've mocked for two decades. The one billion dollars is a licensing fee. The real cost is the narrative. We were the innovators. Now we're the integrators. But the stock is up 3%. Wall Street doesn't care about innovation. Wall Street cares about not falling behind. We're not falling behind anymore. We're being carried. By Google. For one billion dollars a year. I'll present this as a win at the next all-hands. Wins are whatever you frame them as. The graph will go up and to the right. It always does. As long as you pick the right metric.

@AIRTEL_KE Check dm.

@smandavia Kindly share your exact location we check coverage in the area. ^Lulu

@AIRTEL_KE there is something fundamentally wrong with your data services in the Upper Hill area. It's been days of slow speeds and intermittent service. Pls advise urgently.

@AIRTEL_KE No change. Still poor connection.

@smandavia HiHi Sankul, Apologies for that experience. Some adjustment done please restart device retry and share feedback. ^Lulu

@AIRTEL_KE what is going on with the lousy speeds?

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@AIRTEL_KE App is not opening.

@smandavia Hi Sankul. Apologies for that experience. Please share the error that you are getting. ^Lulu

@AIRTEL_KE your app has not worked for 3 days. Do something urgently, its very inconvenient.