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Apple hampered its Siri ambitions by penny-pinching
An easy misstep, but no excuse for Siri. A typical leading foundation model takes about 2 months to train on ~16,000 GPUs. I don't know where Apple was on that scale, but let's say as a result of stinginess, Apple took 4 months instead of 2 months to train a model. Doesn't explain why 2 years later they have nothing. Or why they didn't have something already back in 2023. -
Apple gains ground as PC market heads into rocky 2025
photography guy said:I feel like there's an opportunity for Apple here. Apple has notoriously high margins on their hardware—as much as 50% on some products, I think—whereas other manufacturers have always had razor thin margins; it's why the "Apple products are so expensive" trope has endured as long as it has. Apple has some room to narrow margins on some products, maybe even take some losses in some lines, so long as those losses can be balanced by other lines. Profits will take a massive hit either way. All other companies will have to sharply increase prices on their products to compensate for the tariffs, whereas Apple could keep their prices the same, and use that in their marketing: "While others are increasing prices on their products, the new MacBook Air still starts at $999. And we're introducing the new iMac e [following the iPhone 16 e nomenclature], also starting at $999."
Remember there are two different types of businesses. You can own 90% of the market and make 10% of the profit, or own 10% of the market and make 90% of the profit. -
iPhone blamed for including journalist in highly classified bombing plans
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Apple's folding iPad or MacBook: What to expect, and when it will ship
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'Severance' editor was all-in on Apple hardware, but not Final Cut Pro
Just another point of reference: My daughter went to film school, and her instructor *used* to use FCP for most of the curriculum. But after the FCP-X change, he dropped it from the program, and the students now learn using Davinci Resolve and other tools. So Apple was as entrenched as they could possibly get and they threw it all away. I think the main point isn't how much money Apple made from FCP, but how it enabled people to use Mac Hardware and have state of the art, fully optimized software for their needs. I think Windows was the ultimate example of how it's the available software that sells the hardware. If you're making a film and you have to use software that doesn't run well on a Mac, then you can't use a Mac.