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  • Apple will launch HomePod with 7-inch screen in 2024, says Kuo

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    StrangeDays said:
    Roderikus said:
    Ohh…it took only 6 years for visionary Cook to be reached by Phil Schiller who said that HomePods would need a screen (in 2017…)
    You seem confused about Apple, Cook’s role as CEO is not product development. Nor is it the role of many CEOs at all; Jobs was unique in this area. Most CEOs are business people and not great at product development — as is woefully evident by Mush’s public flailing about on Twitter.
    You’d think so, but in reality, the CEO is all about steering the company as well as managing it. 

    Jobs was HUGE on product development. He’s in a big way responsible for the ideas of the home-computer mouse, GUI, iPod, music and video ecosystem that had a viable business model and actually worked well, the iPhone, iPad, etc. 

    time Cook pushed the Watch, Apple Car (judgement reserved until launch), Apple Fitness, HomePod, etc. 

    the idea doesn’t always come from the CEO, but often does. Sometimes it comes from the CEO motivating the staff, other times it’s directly from their vision. 

    Ford motor company has been through numerous CEOs the last decade, from mullaly.who basically refined each vehicle segment to Mark Foelds, whose vision of heavy aluminum usage failed to pay off, to Hackett, who thought it would be cool to kill off all cars, to Farley, who seems to be in a transition stage for taking the company from gas to a hybrid of gas/electric/possibly hudrogen. Fields and Hackett left because their half baked ideas caused the stock to tank. 

    So the CEO is quite often the idea person. Not just a logistics person. 

    This is especially important in a company that operates much like a nimble startup. 


    williamlondon

  • After 5 years of nothing, Humane 'startup' is now shifting to AI

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    Call themselves “humane” but going to AI. LOL
    macplusplusJapheyDAalsethwatto_cobraurahara

  • New 24-inch iMac in production testing, but won't ship until late 2023

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    BiC said:
    lkrupp said:
    Put an effing bigger screen on it!
    No.

    Sincerely,

    Tim

    PUT an effing bigger screen on it! And remove the BRiCK - that is what the Macintosh was about.

    Sincerely,

    BiC

    This. 

    A million times this. 

    iMac is the ultimate Mac, minimalist, efficient, and glorious. 

    The brick is a ghetto move that turns the iMac into a fisher price toy lookalike. 

    Small screen is lame. 

    Give it 32” and enough thermal overhead to handle a 3nm M3 Ultra. 



    darkvadergwmacbaconstang

  • Possible Mac Pro 'compute module' discovered in iOS 16.4 code

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    robaba said:
    Hmm, yeah not buying it.  Why would we find reference to a Mac Pro solution in iOS?  It might be a new compute core for future ASi, but nothing other than rampant speculation to suggest it has anything to do with a solution to Apples Mac Pro conundrum.
    Communications between them. But it could just be an iOS device. 
    williamlondon

  • Possible Mac Pro 'compute module' discovered in iOS 16.4 code

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    It’s either a Mac Pro SOC module or…

    new “Apple Arcade” gaming and entertainment console. 

    Jives with the recent secret gaming conference that Apple hosted. 

    Interesting. 

    The mention in iOS doesn’t preclude the Mac as the studio display has an “iPhone chip” in it. Who knows what will be included in the Mac Pro or new XDR Pro Display. 

    But a powerful gaming console running modified iOS sounds plausible. 

    Either that, or it’s just a trying-to-be-more-stealthy reference to the mixed reality devices (or perhaps the last two items mentioned are the same thing - as in an iPhone is the compute module andcc ccc an iPhone pro is the other compute module. Kind of a let down if that’s the case. 




    williamlondon