danvm

melgross said:

danvm said:

danox said:

Google and Meta sell you to the highest bidder for profit, Apple like most retailers gets all the information from you (about you) when you buy something from them to complete a mutual transaction, Google and Meta have to dig into the cesspool/trashcan (internet) to get the same information thru Spy-net. 

Many people can’t grasp the how you make your money determines everything that you do afterwards in terms of how you conduct your business going forward, Google and Meta are night and day different from Apple and no amount of me too or feel good products or giveaways will change that.

Didn't Apple sold their customers to Google when they agree to make Google Search the default search engine in every Apple device?  It looks like Apple get some billions from Google business practices, right?

No, they didn’t. All it gives Google is the default position as the search engine. You can easily change it to another.

Yes, they did.  Every Apple customer that uses Safari will see Google Search by default, no questions asked.  Can you imagine how much is Google is making from Apple customers if they willing to invest billions every year?

Have you asked why Apple, the company with a "privacy first" policy" is doing business with Google, a company with "privacy issues"? I think Apple doing business with a privacy focused search engine will be better and easier than customers changing to another engine, don't you think?

danox said:

Google and Meta sell you to the highest bidder for profit, Apple like most retailers gets all the information from you (about you) when you buy something from them to complete a mutual transaction, Google and Meta have to dig into the cesspool/trashcan (internet) to get the same information thru Spy-net. 

Many people can’t grasp the how you make your money determines everything that you do afterwards in terms of how you conduct your business going forward, Google and Meta are night and day different from Apple and no amount of me too or feel good products or giveaways will change that.

Didn't Apple sold their customers to Google when they agree to make Google Search the default search engine in every Apple device?  It looks like Apple get some billions from Google business practices, right?

spliff monkey said:

AI could be a useful tool for certain tasks, but trying to cram it into literally everything has turned the otherwise useful tool into hyper advanced spyware.  Overpromising capabilities and features has lead to disappointment for corporate users who rely on accurate information and for the general user, we are now awash in AI slop. AI creativity is dull, boring, predictable and unworthy of interest accept by the dullest and most boring people who lack imagination and standards. 

Apple has the right idea all along about how to approach "AI", as a tool that can streamline tedious tasks, but everyone else has been milked dry of their billions by snake oil salesmen promising the replace humans and human creativity and they're just beginning to see that they will only be met with disappointment. 

AI certainly has its uses for specific tasks. Yet, it's important to remember that what may seem like a useful AI tool or feature to one person could be deemed unnecessary by someone else. Not every AI capability will align with individual workflows. Just as with today's software, where the vast majority of users don't utilize every feature of macOS, Photoshop, or MS Office. People pick and choose what serves their needs and ignore the rest. The same principle applies to AI tools and services.

danox said:

Who are those rivals it can’t be Microsoft and Qualcomm they can’t even get their act together with the Surface Platform notice that Recall is still basically in dry dock, like all the other AI solutions. The Windows development kit that was supposed to help developers port Windows programs over to Arm has been canceled by Qualcomm, maybe Google is the one that is ahead?

Recall is included in the last Windows 11 update, which has additional AI features.  They already have Copilot in Windows, Edge, MS Office, MS 365, Teams, VS Code, Dynamics and some security services.  Additionally, AI services are available through Azure. It's clear that Microsoft is surpassing Apple in AI advancements. 

And why you need a dev kit when there are devices in the market with Snapdragon Elite processors? I think Qualcomm did a great job with their first Oryon CPU for desktop.  They are ahead of Apple with 45 TOPS compared to Apple M4 38 TOPS.

All of Googles mobile chips are at least five years behind Apple which makes it difficult to run AI on the edge, what’s Gemini doing these days (hallucinating) or maybe Meta has the solution to AI? All of Apple, so-called rivals have no real mobile/desktop hardware with any on the edge capability, all they have is super computers back home that will send you the answer on demand with a long tape delay.

These super computers you mention is what Apple lacks today.  Se we could say Apple is behind Google and Meta too.  

When you look at Apples rivals exactly what are they ahead in? I know it ain’t hardware, or OS mobile or desktop, and none possess multiple devices that can be linked together to work in any coherent fashion for the end user that says buy me at the upper end of the market.

Apples, coherent presentation of Apple Intelligence basically provided a roadmap for their menagerie of confused rivals whose presentation’s changed after they saw Apples roadmap.

MS is ahead of Apple with their enterprise / business ecosystem, desktop and cloud services. Google is ahead with cloud services and Android, who has a larger market share. Both companies have their AI services running and in consumers hands while we wait for Apple Intelligence.  Do you really think Apple is ahead of MS and Googe in AI?

danox said:

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charlesn said:

Here's a killer product that Apple could make today, but they won't: the MacPad Pro.  Essentially, it's a 13" iPad Pro form factor that can boot into either MacOS or iPadOS, depending on user choice. M chips are perfectly capable of this. Boot into iPadOS, and it behaves like a normal iPad. Boot into MacOS and the screen becomes non-touch, so you connect a Magic Keyboard and operate it like a normal Macbook. Best of both worlds in one device and no need to figure out how to kludge a touch-based OS onto MacOS. 

I agree completely with you on this. I don't understand why few people in this forum criticize this idea as Fridge/Toaster etc. Apple hasn't shown any interest/inclination towards improving iPad OS features for almost half a decade. Begs the question - why not take the easiest approach possible with the already available software. Also, iPhones will reach the capability to run MacOS in another year or two (if not already there) at the hardware level (SoC, Memory, Storage). And all you would need is a dock to connect to a display, keyboard and other accessories. There will be more people demanding this in the upcoming years in my view.

IMO, the iPad Pro became a fridge / toaster as soon as Apple released the Magic Keyboard, same as the Surface Pro. The difference is in the execution, the iPad is better tablet and the Surface Pro is a better laptop / desktop replacement.

The biggest difference is that Apple actually makes a profit on all their iPad sales every one of them. 

It's well-known that Apple generates significant revenue from hardware sales.  But at the same time, Microsoft's makes huge profits from software and cloud services. Each company capitalizes on its strengths in these areas.

The Surface like the Xbox makes none there is nothing Microsoft can teach Apple about hardware/software design, product execution or in fact anything?

If you ask me, Apple could learn a lot from MS. For example, the gaming experience in PC's and Xbox is miles ahead compared to Mac's and Apple TV (that's the only device I think is similar to the Xbox).  Also Apple could learn from Microsoft about productivity suites, cloud services, business / enterprise applications and AI. I suppose there are more examples. We could also say that MS could learn many things from Apple.  I suppose there is no perfect company.