Latko

jdgaz said:

This is really pretty stupid. 1) Have Siri recognize the voice that is asking information of it. 2) use that voice to determine which device will be used / queried for information 3) Allow multi queries without the repeated "hey Siri". Answer questions with answers not web site lookups. Start there and you are on your way to a winner.

While you’re quite right, this immediately translates into serious complexity on a lower level.  When Apple acquired Siri, it didn’t adopt the architecture designed by the original developers - translating into a lack of modularity and scalability.
Apple figured it could do better, but on the contrary, from that moment the project went into patchwork.  As it now has become apparent that they failed in a big way, we see various flavors of spin reaching press, like they would buy other speech synthesis engines, start over from scratch, or anything else that might cover up the disaster at hand.
Appointing big names for truckloads of money is the last resort of that wrong kind.
Geniuses can’t integrate truckloads of incompatible systems and thereby can’t repair what troublemakers have done before.
Siri has become the same frivolous mixture of various technologies as Project Titan, without any clue or strategy how to integrate it into a product 

Fatman said:
..... Apple will save substantially from not having to pay Intel for their CPUs... - imagine that.

Ah. I hear Tim say: “With this new iPhone generation, we saved you x hundred bucks“
(...?) 

MacPro said:

5 nanometers ...  Sheesh!  I am getting flashbacks to computer RAM stated in kilobytes.  How long before we see picometers used?  

Pretty long - as we’re near the physical limit. So time for Apple to write another chapter

So what specific projects are on hold ? On the scale of 100k employees in a $ trillion company, I would expect Airpods in 25 colors and 10 variants to have been spun out a year ago. And AirPower, MacBooks, iMac variants on a 1/2 yearly basis. With or without Angela Ahrendts or whomever may (not) succeed Cue, Gianndreaeae or even Cook

clarker99 said:

laoban00 said:

tulkas said:

MacPro said:

No different to Google really, didn't those programmers that created Android v2 (i.e. the one they rushed out to copy iOS after they dropped their Blackberry knock off) get paid?  Those programmers being paid was a reward for tech theft just as much.

Exactly. Huawei is copying everyone. They are the new Samsung. Samsung copied everyone for many years. Android is unabashed copy. Windows was a copy of MacOS. Sure, Huawei is a little more James Bond about it, but Apple has been the target of IP theft for decades. 

It's always made me laugh when the haters bash everything Apple and then use clones of Apple products. It's like they are trying to clown themselves. 

Actually Apple is rarely the first to market. Wireless charging is an example I guess copying that from other is only good if Apple is doing it.  And then the the software gestures in ios 11 on copied from Blackberry and the upcoming three cameras copied from Huawei it is all good as long it is made by Apple

Is Apple cloning Huawei parts? No.  Read the article. Huawei is cloning Apple parts bc they have no clue.

Adding a 3rd lense and adapting it in Apples own way with their own tech is not the same as cloning parts.

Patents do not just relate to parts, but also idea’s, concepts, principles. 
Try to think more objectively.