virgilisleading42

I think the problem apple has is their voice assistant is terrible. They could totally win this market if they actually cared about Siri but it's just sooo bad. My mother is sight impaired. So we have used all the voice assistants to see which would make her life better for her in her house. Siri was terrible, it keeps giving a visual response to an auditory question and can barely do anything. Amazon and Google are amazing. For my mother we actually switched to google completely because it just seemed to be the best at audio intelligence. I would love so much for her to have the HomePod mini from a privacy standpoint but it's just not possible with how bad it is. The sound of the HomePod and HomePod mini is great, it's just Siri is the worst product that Apple makes hands down. 

Xed said:

I'm glad to see this as the outcome. I believe this will not only help ARM's future, but also the future of computing as a whole.

I actually think this is going to be really hard for ARM. Probably a great thing for Nvidia though but hard for ARM. They are not a very profitable company and need a bigger company to own them and put up with the lack of profitability for the prestigae of it. Their business model requires a lot of money on R&D. Last year they made only 274 million dollars of Net income. Intel, AMD, and Nvidia make almost 65% margin on their businesses and large profits. Intel for example made 19 billion dollars in Net Income last year even though ARM was in far more machines. I'm not sure the stock market is going to look to favorable on a company that's been around for over 30 years and barely making any profit at all.  

Having both the Airpods Pro and the Airpods I find the Airpods much more functional. I really hope they don't change the design on the airpods they are just so much easier to use on the go. 

Please please add a trackpad to the add on keyboard. The irony about what Craig Federighi statement: “We really feel that the ergonomics of using a Mac are that your hands are rested on a surface, and that lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do.” is that is exactly what they've created with an ipad pro because they wont allow for a trackpad or mouse to be attached just a keyboard. Please please allow us to add one Apple.

I think the problem they have is they price there product too high. For $199 you can regularly get an Apple Watch on sale if you get a model back. And Apple watch is the gold standard of wearables. If they sold these at $99 I think they'd have a real market for it. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like if I'm going to spend $199 I'll get an Apple Watch, for $99 I'd be interested in their watch.

It's sad that both Biden and Trump want to do away with 230. Both have been very vocal about it, especially Biden. I wish they would leave it alone. The one positive is that with Trump in office it probably will never pass. 

brianus said:

tiredskills said:

Why on earth would I want to run an AI model?  Locally or otherwise?

I’m sure this was meant to be snarky, but for me it’s a genuine question: what are the envisioned real world use cases? What might a business (even a home one) use a local LLM for?

The article mentions a hospital in the context of patient privacy, but what would that model actually be *doing*?

I think the big thing is for creative tasks. There are a lot of uses for AI in creative industries, but we don't want our material input being used to output somewhere else. So all image generation stuff is helpful to do locally. You know, as an artist, your content isn't being fed into the online system for others to use, but you still gain the value of using AI tools. Another amazing use case is text-to-video generation. It is prohibitively expensive to use text-to-video generation online, and very little output for the price. The ability to do that locally would be game-changing from a business perspective. Well worth the money. Leading-edge text-to-video models cost 1k or more to have enough output to make them valuable for business. Also there are tons of other use cases. 

But maybe this is a positive for Apple. Their AI has been terrible. Why is Meta pouching from them? Maybe Apple can start pouching from some amazing new startups.