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Mike Wuerthele said:

22july2013 said:

Next: trifold phones.

I feel like I saw one at MWC.

CheeseFreeze said:

mfryd said:

CheeseFreeze said:

I don’t find this very plausible. 

They could perhaps create a better “iPad + keyboard” combo that offers an attractive package.  But Apple already sells three kinds of laptops and three kinds of iPads. Why confuse the consumer with another one that overlaps both classes?

The difference is that it would be a Mac.  At this point the defining attribute that differentiates a Mac from an iPad is that the Mac runs Mac OSX.

Mac OSX allows a greater flexibility in available software.  With additional software, OSX can even run Windows in a virtual machine.

OSX is a platform that can be used to teach programming.   To my knowledge, Apple doesn't allow users to write traditional software under iPad OS.  I have a C compiler for my Mac, I have not been able to find one for my iPad.

Similarly, OSX allows one to drop into the command line and explore a bit to see how the machine works under the hood.  I don't think the iPad allows this.

You can even run iPad apps on a Mac.

All of these make OSX a better choice for many educational situations.

Sure, I get the differentiation. And for exactly the reasons you mentioned I am a macOS user primarily. But why another product? The target audience you are describing are MacBook Air or even Pro users. 

Apple could simply stick a M1 in the same form factor and sell it for $100 less and provide at least some parity with the CPU class they offer (easier to develop for), but what do they gain from that? They won’t unlock a new audience segment. 

The majority of their profits don’t come from marginally cheaper products. It’s the extra memory, the bumped up CPU. That is where they make the big bucks at scale. It’s not an interesting proposition for them to sell us a cheaper laptop. In fact, it’s not their brand strategy. They would have to offer a cheaper screen, cheaper internals, etc to drop $200-$350 and that is ‘un-Apple’. That’s why I find this rumor not plausible. 

BB92647 said:

The Airs and the Pros will move to higher end screens. The Air will get Mini LED, the Pros get the Tandem OLED. 
These low cost laptops will get the LCD.
My guess these laptops are for low cost education market (think eMac remember those!) and using the orders they have to make well in advance. 

danox said:

Highly unlikely 2025 is almost over Perplexity even if you finalized the deal in October/November, after you buy them, you’ll have to have many someone’s go through every single thing that they’ve done up until this point in even greater detail and to top it off most of the people at Perplexity are going to quit so what are you getting? That’ll take a good six months maybe even a year and it won’t help you at least not soon enough in fact, they won’t even help you at all, but you would’ve spent $14 billion dollars down the drain, but you can tell Wall Street that you’re doing something.

Sam at OpenAI did not get a check from Apple for a reason because there are no shortcuts in AI just like there are no shortcuts in designing operating systems and designing cpu/gpu chips particularly if you choose unwisely. Apples solution/path is on the edge. Most of their competition is working on a solution that phones home.


https://www.macstories.net/stories/hands-on-how-apples-new-speech-apis-outpace-whisper-for-lightning-fast-transcription/

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms  Eddie Cueless better talk to his researchers/programers on staff Sam, Google, Microsoft and Meta aren’t reliable.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-dont-do-formal-reasoning-and

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