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This fiasco reminds me of an incident at a Computer World in Chicago eons ago. I walked up to a display of a large hard drive with a clear cover. The heads were moving back and forth uniformly across the disk. After a minute or two, I asked the vendor, "is this already an operational product?" He smiled and said yes.

I said you have a switch in the device going from plus to negative voltage  to swing the head across the disc continously with no random head movement. This is not really operational. He looked embarrassed and said I was correct. They hoped to have it working soon......

Sound familiar?

They hope to have AI soon......

The misleading advertising to entice sales and the hype of the move to 16GB of ram is now the minimum necessary for AI smells like a sewage plant poorly run.

Apple needed the 16GB of ram minimum for years but put profit over customer approvals. Ever since I started in the computers back in the 70s, more memory was the least expensive upgrade to boost performance, but that all changed at Apple when they soldered in the Memory and SSDs. Now a relatively modest expenditure to improve a computer a customer had ALREADY purchased with more memory has morphed into "buy a new computer".

There are not enough fans to get the oder of this out of the atmosphere. Apple blew away all consumer trust this year with all of the massive advertising across their entire product lines that their non-working AI was all set to go., That was the complete hype for the iPhone 16 series and why folks needed to buy it now. 

Some tentative features even were retracted as they really were hardly "alpha" let alone "beta" features.  

AI is operational in some arenas of the computer industry but definitely NOT in the Apple World.

The billions wasted on the car project and the goofy Googles that ceased production in less than a year due to lack of sales shows that Apple's management team is way over paid and really out of touch. Tim's only justifiable claim to fame is the Apple Watch which is an insignificant percentage of sales.

It is definitely  time to kick back sides and take names for the exit from Apple program.

To cover their costs to create and get the operational M3 Ultra, they will need to make a lot of them. As outsiders, we have zero clues how many of the M3 Ultra Mac Studios and what configurations might be going into Apple's AI farm. When we aerial photos of their building show that they cover dozens of acres, that could be lots of Mac Studios, perhaps in more plebeian garb with just the ports needed in there computer farm(s).

A few thousand individual unit sales will be some frosting around a candle but the cake I bet requires many thousands to cover costs even if being used in house.

Not a surprise really that Apple got caught with their pants down. Too much time and money wasted on the "never saw the light of day" car.  The "googles" have consumed untold resources, too and have not been a runaway success in terms of sales. Frankly, usable Apple's AI is years away and could become a serious concern financially as investors loose confidence.

Apple has morphed from a small and fast Navy Destroyer to a more than cumbersome Battleship. The latter finally gets up to speed and requires vast space to change course or turn around let alone stop.

The incremental changes or improvements in their "core" revenue source, the iPhone, are an embarrassment when one sees what the competitors are pushing out. 

The comments here in the peanut gallery should be a five alarm file in the Board of Directors meetings such as the lack of more and more folks upgrading annually as there is just not enough change to justify a $2,000 expenditure for the top model with full memory - their most profitable model.

The incremental change of their most popular laptop (MacBook Air) is a chip change from the M3 to the M4. Wow! ???????

Just observations of an Apple user since1990 into computers since the early 1970s.

YMMV

Folks, we should not get our shorts in a wedgie. The most obvious option is to NOT use Siri.

I only use it for a count down timer for my coffee machine so I can work in the office and when the timer goes off on my watch, I go get a fresh cup and take it to my wife for her first cup of the day while in bed.

Based upon my limited use, Siri works.