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I wouldn’t say Apple was outfoxed in the 90s. Apple just lost their way. It took Steve Jobs return and acquiring another operating system to get out of bad engineering decisions of the time. Apple needed a leader. At the time it was Steve Jobs correcting the ship. It is more Craig Federighi these days. Tim Cook has too many other responsibilities nor is it his expertise.

Technically TCP/IP is easy to put a man-in-the-middle too, but that is why we build stuff on top of it to make it secure. This is just more difficult for devices because it is harder to protect the client certificates on them. If you can extract the client certificates from an Apple TV then you can pretend to be an Apple TV. This doesn't work for the web because you would need to break in to a data center to pretend to be a web server.

Apple might have a plan to help mitigate these issues with the U1 chip, but it would need to be integrated everywhere. This can help ensure the device is actually really close before accepting a bluetooth connection on a new device. Devices that have already been joined for the first time can use techniques similar to the web to protect their connections. Alternatively NFC could be used for initial connections.

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CheeseFreeze said:

Siri was always incredibly bad but suddenly feels infantile, now that I’m working witch ChatGPT a lot.

Apple has a problem. They say they’ve been investing a lot in AI, but I don’t believe for a word they’ve worked on the tech like OpenAI is delivering today; that’s just damage control by Tim Cook to keep shareholders at ease.

What people do not realize is that Siri is already part of a node connecting many other functions. The function of Siri is almost irrelevant as a stand-alone feature. HOWEVER, when applied to Apple “Notes” and its integration with others OS function the whole process is brilliant. Siri is the periscope of a submarine that not many people see. And as tradition shows for the last 25 years, Apple does not flash any product until is fully ready, while testing it unnoticed by all the users.
Siri is not and is not intended to be an: Alexa switch the lights, Alexa turn off the lights”, it goes beyond the marketing for idiots. And the AI of Apple es further ahead of those “we have millions and millions of phones with windows”.
As someone said Apple skates not to where the puck is, but to where it is going to be. If we already did not know that predicament.

If you ask me, companies like MS and Google are skating where the puck is going to be.  MS has CoPilot integrated into their ecosystem (Windows, Office, Dynamics, Github).  Google is doing the same with Bard and Workspace.  Both MS and Google have some advantages in their ecosystem over Apple, and they are taking advantage of it to advance AI.  At the moment, I haven't seen anything similar from Apple.  We'll have to wait and see what happens in the future.

The R1 co-processor designed by Apple is a much better puck….. hardware and software combined/designed in house as one will be a stronger, product for Apple and at the same time it will be more usable to the public.

We don’t know which will be a better puck. Apple may have a better AR device, but MS is miles ahead of Apple in AI and the integration into their ecosystems. 

At the end, maybe both will succeed with their products. 

Apple probably will never do language models unless they can do it on device. Which of course you can do, but is it useful and do they have a way to get the memory footprint smaller. You never know where Apple's services business might go next, but I don't really see them being an Azure competitor. If Apple needs those services, they will just contract with Microsoft.

Although I prefer Siri for the Apple ecosystem integration, Google assistant and Alexa's death might be overstated here. I think Apple is the least likely to drop services compared to these other players. Apple tends to stick with what they start. Google assistant and Alexa are entrenched enough they will certainly continue on with Google continuing to be the most capable assistant in everything except privacy. Siri used to have the advantage of on-device processing, but Google and Amazon have since caught up in that. Alexa's team was significantly reduced but I don't think Google is stealing their voice assistant people to work on language models.

This sounds very unlikely. Why dual identical chips? Something like a south-bridge makes much more sense to handle 12 cameras since you primarily divide in to two chips for I/O and make bigger chips for processing more. You want to share as much rendering as possible for the two displays on one chip. Anything is possible, but it doesn’t feel right. It also doesn’t follow the supply chain rumors, however there is a chip in the supply chain for the headset so it is possible everyone got it wrong. The name also sounds unlikely although Apple has done it with Apple Watch and Apple TV.