Wesley_Hilliard

discountopinion said:

Hey Jony, here’s a dopey idea - make someone outside of Apple the CEO. Someone who can act as a massive talent magnet in AI. Someone with incredible vision.

i sense that Apple would benefit from a 1997 Steve Jobs like entrance and transformation.

Apple has had decades of incredible profits and share price growth, only to stagnate and likely suffer from common corporate malaise. It would not be hard to imagine most staffers cruise their stock options rather than want to change the world.

Unpopular opinion - poach someone very senior from Tesla.
implement Elons work ethic and relentless innovation ethos.
i doubt you can get Elon but you can potentially get one of his protégées.

So you want to replace the CEO of one of the most profitable and globally popular companies on Earth that continually pumps out astronomically successful products with someone from one of the worst run companies in the history of silicon valley with one of the worst reputations on Earth?

ihatescreennames said:

Wesley_Hilliard said:

It's quite an innovative launch when you're not viewing it from the "AI will take over the world and replace all jobs" nonsense point of view. Grounded here in reality, Apple Intelligence is quite useful for the everyday consumer. Does Apple need a lying chatbot?

I agree. I figure people who complain about Apple being behind just aren’t doing what I do. For example, my wife and I have been dealing with some extended family issues. We will typically use FaceTime Audio when we speak over the phone regarding these issues. One day my wife was rushing to get out the door but wanted me to send an email/text to her mother. She made a FaceTime Audio call to me from the car which I recorded with my iPhone. At the end of the call that recording was available with a transcript in Notes. I used Writing Tools to summarize the three points my wife had for her mom. I did it using “Professional” but that tone was rejected, so I redid it using “Friendly” and that got approval to send on. This was all done privately, didn’t require third-party (and potentially nosy) software and used Apple Intelligence. It worked great!

With ChatGPT I can take a photo of something and ask for assistance or directions and that works great, too. That isn’t something that Apple Intelligence can do, maybe in the future. But I ChatGPT couldn’t have done what I did with that phone call and kept it all private.

When using ChatGPT via Siri or Visual Intelligence, none of the data, including the images, text, or prompt, are kept by OpenAI or Google. The session is tossed after it is complete, which is part of Apple's work with third parties in this respect. It could get even more private soon if a Private Cloud Compute version of ChatGPT or others are made available to users.

I was able to utilize this recently by taking a photo of a gift my friend received during a baby shower. Visual Intelligence let me do a quick reverse image search via Google and brought up the product in question. All private, with none of the data being used by Google or others. That's the innovation Apple is providing via its approach to accessible, on-device features and call outs to third-party AI.

No one else is doing this. And this feels way more useful than a Hatsune Miku I can have an affair with.

CheeseFreeze said:

Of course Apple hasn’t been called out on ethics and AI. So far there’s not much to see to begin with. 

I'd say launching an on-device AI across every compatible device in the market is more than "not much to see." It gave every compatible device access to a private and secure on-device AI for editing text, photos, and generating images. It also provided access to ChatGPT without needing to worry about data collection.

It's quite an innovative launch when you're not viewing it from the "AI will take over the world and replace all jobs" nonsense point of view. Grounded here in reality, Apple Intelligence is quite useful for the everyday consumer. Does Apple need a lying chatbot?

pulseimages said:

Wesley_Hilliard said:

pulseimages said:

Which executive gets Apple back to innovating instead of playing catchup? 

Ok, I'll bite. How is Apple not innovating today? How is it playing catchup? 

Cook has done wonders for the company, like it or not, and the call for the mythical "product focused CEO" is just silly. Any replacement to Cook will have pros and cons. There's always the chance we get someone we've never even heard of.

Apple used to invent product categories now it’s playing catchup with product categories that have been released for years by other companies such as with the Apple Vision Pro and iPhone Fold. 

602warren already got into the inaccuracy of your statement, so no need to reiterate. More importantly, innovation is not invention. Invention can be innovative, but so can iteration.

Apple has always been king of the iteration. It sees what can or does exist and creates an ideal version that people actually want. Apple is almost never first, but it does often achieve best.

I'm still not sure iPhone Fold will ever release. Foldables are an expensive fad with a tiny niche -- a combination that doesn't really work for Apple's iPhone where it is fine with Mac. All the foldables to date are hacky prototypes people spend money on. Android still isn't truly optimized for the experience. And that's where Apple will win if they do release a foldable: the OS will truly be built for the device in a way no other foldable has had.

Apple Vision Pro? While we don't know what Apple's success metric is for the product, they surely crossed it. Compared to the market, it is a much better headset than what competitors offer, and with a price tag that warrants the specs. Meta couldn't hope to compete on the high end, so it doesn't. No one else has built a productivity platform in spatial computing because it is technically difficult to pull off. It's why every other headset focuses on games. As far as I can see, Apple Vision Pro is the only product that exists as a productivity platform, nascent gaming platform, and has high specs and hardware that'll last. Just the price gap alone suggests Apple Vision Pro made plenty of money in its first year compared to the slowly dying Meta Quest platform. We've only just begun to see what Apple is doing in the space, meanwhile Meta's entire financial backing is focused on pursuing another fictional technology.

pulseimages said:

Which executive gets Apple back to innovating instead of playing catchup? 

Ok, I'll bite. How is Apple not innovating today? How is it playing catchup?