davidlewis54

Apple knows exactly what it’s doing and is highly innovative.  It creates fantastic products which are very popular.  It has some successes and some failures. It works on ideas and they either happen or they don’t.

Huge numbers of people speculate on what Apple is doing and most of the time they are wrong because they are not Apple and don’t think the same way: nor could a single individual or a few analysts ever think the way Apple does, simply by the number of people Apple employs on R and D, let alone any other reason.

Analysts only think short term. Tech spawns all sorts of nonsense but saying an item or idea is the next greatest thing, and bigging it up to such an extent there is then near catastrophe when it doesn’t happen, as per the DotCom bust of the late 1990s/early 2000s, as one in the boom and bust cycle, is unhelpful at best and extremely costly to the majority of the public which entrusts investment companies with its savings.

The analysts, along with market-makers and the other stakeholders such as private equity firms have no idea about tech or shopping or health care, they are only in it to make a profit.  The stock market is purely gambling, using other people’s money and making up the rules as the market dictates, by those in the market. 

As a slight aside, I use my Apple TV box for as much as possible.  It sets up streaming very quickly and simply and is much easier than the dedicated setup on individual boxes. And the picture is usually better quality and is more stable.

I’m with Rotateleftbyte: F1 is only about the money and there is precious little overtaking, except because of pitstops. There are distinct levels of teams whereby the winner of a race gets the most money which means the top teams get an increasingly large income, which hardly creates better racing.  Most of the excitement from F1 is because of team arguments, rather than racing. I used to watch F1 but no more.  I have also worked in motorsport for over 40 years. Give me a meeting of ten lap races of one make series any day! 15 races in one day and really good quality racing all the time.

i also feel the reference to F1 being for adults is a bit unpleasant.

Ultimately, there is no point accepting anything Trump say as fact or truthful and he’ll change his mind when it suits him.  He only wants to cause chaos from which he personally profits.

Maybe due to general apathy about AI combined with a large percentage of people actually not wanting it, perhaps Apple has thought it’s not worth chucking a load of money at it yet, until there is an understanding of what the public wants from AI, if anything.

Quite a lot of apps don’t work reliably so, also perhaps, Apple has decided to go back to basics.

I am sure all will be revealed next week.