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jfabula1 said:

So if you invest $B and becomes successful yoDAalseth said:

quakerotis said:

you wanted your comic book villain?

Huh, what’s the word. You know, for someone working inside the government, trying to use government contacts, and coercion, to get them to restrict competition, to benefit that persons company. To use the tools of government to establish athemselves in control of an abusive monopoly.

There’s a word for that. Corr…corru…something. 

u becomes monopolistic? Much like Microsoft, Apple, Google….so if you work hard and you becoming richer, that’s BAD, you’re the target, and if you take covers whatever it is, you’re corrupt. That’s Amazing 

proline said:

You're probably right. It's sad, because with MagSafe half the electricity gets used to increase the entropy of the universe which raises carbon emissions for no reason. It is slow, it makes the phones bigger and heavier, and hardly anyone uses it. And yet, for so many years the only thing reviewers would say every September was "and it still doesn't have teh wireless chargez!". Apple doesn't want the big story in September to be that, so they will include the wasteful and useless thing.

jas99 said:

xbit said:

Apple Intelligence feels like a me too product designed to appeal to investors rather than consumers. Almost every iPhone user I know hates it and asks me how you can switch it off.

I don’t blame Tim Cook though as every tech company is expected to bet the farm on gen AI. Cook would be eviscerated by the markets if Apple didn’t have a gen AI strategy. There’s a lot of hype but no-one has a product that works as promised.

I think Apple users are a lot more savvy than the average consumer. I think the AI “revolution” is a mix of lies, misunderstanding, and intentional false hype. The large language models (LLMs) create the impression of intelligence but possess none. But that’s enough to fool huge swaths of the human population. One of Apple’s internal communications was, “The last thing the world needs is another chatbot.” And Apple was right. But it was forced to do something by the - let’s just say it - gullible masses who bought the AI lies. Maybe that’s the one thing I can say it did wrong - jump on the bandwagon instead of exposing it for the lie it is?

I think a lot of Apple users know this and are simply not interested in AI - even if it’s Apple’s version. I get it. The last thing I want is some LLM making nonsensical statements in my e-mail messages to other people. I don’t need help writing. Get the heck out of my way. That’s why lots of Apple users are turning it off.

The only thing that worries me now is that if Apple relies too heavily on LLMs it can never have a reliable Apple Intelligence product. Why? Because LLMs hallucinate shockingly high percentages of the time. LLMs are just plain wrong - a LOT. I know Apple knows this. I know Apple has been developing neural processors for a long, long time. I know Apple has the best and brightest people. I know they are amazing managers - honest, caring, really great corporate citizens. So I trust they are doing the wise thing with Apple Intelligence, even if it takes longer. Doing things well takes longer. And I’m sick of those who can’t criticizing those who can.

zoetmb said:

I don’t think he needs to resign as from a financial standpoint, he’s handled the company brilliantly.  But maybe he needs to bring in a new senior executive with more product orientation.  

It seems to me that the car and A.I. failures are primarily the responsibility of the executives in charge of those efforts.  Maybe THEY need to be replaced. 

Years ago, I predicted that Apple would have primarily been a  robotics and AI company by now.   But it sure seems like Boston Dynamics (now owned by Hyundai), maybe Tesla )depending upon how fake Musk’s demos have been) and a number of Japanese and Chinese companies are way ahead of them.  

IMO, Apple does have to find a new big business because phones and services are not going to sustain them in the long run.  Macs and iPads are already a relatively small part of the business.