MassiveAttack

AppleZulu said:

MassiveAttack said:

inkling said:

Apple's Eddy Cue is guessing that the iPhone will eventually be replaced by AI

Did Eddie Cue miss his medications that day? The only way AI will replace phones, including iPhones, is if we all quit talking to one another and spend our time conversing with AI bots. I doubt that will happen, and I wonder about the sanity much less good sense of those who claim otherwise.

Nobody knew how iPhone would work until it came out becasue people could not imagine a world with iPhones. People thought Nokia will sell their phones forever. 
Yes.. Lack of imagination. 
We think that nothing can replace iPhones. But but but.... 

Recently, Tim Cook has made poor choices and decisions like listening to Luca, timid spending for chips, lack of LLM studies, their incompetent Siri, AppStore policy etc.

I would not be surprised if Apple is facing a "Nokia moment" right now. Apple can still be a big player with war chest in the future, but it is up to Apple.

Apple can´t afford to protect their reputation by their legacy. Kodak went down, because Kodak was too proud of what Kodak achieved. They did not innovate and disrupt to protect their legacy.

This is the same case for Apple.

And Apple may not make a silly decision from now on in this survival game.

Tim Cook still has excellent experts. He just needs to listen to them. Without Phil Schiller and Eddie Cue, Apple would not be where Apple is today.

This is a clickbait, but Eddie Cue says that iPhone usage may not be as crazy as now. And AI makes people less dependent on phones and wearables.

For the record, Apple isn't currently experiencing a "Nokia moment."

Also for the record, LLM artificial intelligence isn't what everyone's hyping it up to be. It's a probabilistic program that analyzes a data input query and uses a really large database of other data to predict the most likely string of characters to offer in response. It isn't thinking. It isn't conscious or near conscious. The thing it does better than humans is index an idetic memory of all data used to "train" it. No human can collect and accurately recall that volume of data. On the other hand, no functional AI can be trained on the comparatively small amount of data that any human of reasonable intelligence requires. LLM AI is just an elaborate mimic. It isn't capable of original thought or creativity. The huge database of other people's content can make its mimicry seem like original thought or creativity, but it produces neither. Additionally, as more AI is used to create content that's then published on the internet, it creates a feedback loop that makes future AI dumber or at best pushes it toward a faltering grade C average. As probabilistic output becomes training data input, the peak of the AI training data bell curve gets higher and higher. Moreover, as wrong answers and hallucinations are generated, regurgitated and dumped right back into the training data pool, it increases the probability that future AI will continue to generate even more wrong answers and hallucinations. 

inkling said:

Apple's Eddy Cue is guessing that the iPhone will eventually be replaced by AI

Did Eddie Cue miss his medications that day? The only way AI will replace phones, including iPhones, is if we all quit talking to one another and spend our time conversing with AI bots. I doubt that will happen, and I wonder about the sanity much less good sense of those who claim otherwise.

I would not be surprised if Apple is facing a "Nokia moment" right now. Apple can still be a big player with war chest in the future, but it is up to Apple.

Apple can´t afford to protect their reputation by their legacy. Kodak went down, because Kodak was too proud of what Kodak achieved. They did not innovate and disrupt to protect their legacy.

This is the same case for Apple.

And Apple may not make a silly decision from now on in this survival game.

Tim Cook still has excellent experts. He just needs to listen to them. Without Phil Schiller and Eddie Cue, Apple would not be where Apple is today.

This is a clickbait, but Eddie Cue says that iPhone usage may not be as crazy as now. And AI makes people less dependent on phones and wearables.

libertyandfree said:

MassiveAttack said:

John Giannandrea is partly right when he says that chatbots like ChatGPT are not for the majority except certain corporate users.
However, John failed to respond how AI should be rolled out with Apple. He did not bring any helpful hardware with AI features. 

He is a smart guy for sure, but does he fit to Apple? Questionable.. 

But this issue shows the general problem inside Apple.

They have failed with Vision Pro.
They have failed with Apple Car. 
They have failed with Apple CarPlay. 

Recently, we observe more failures or rather medicore product features. 

Apple was re-born again in the middle of the financial crisis 2008. 

There has always been a big hit in the middle of a crisis..
Now, we have a crisis.. Who knows..Maybe, there will be another company which will bring out a shocking product which could eat Apple´s market share or it is so revolutionary, so that it will shake up the entire mobile sector.. 

Within this tariff crisis, Cook will be busy to optimize his supply chain plan.. At the same time, he should care about Siri... 

Apple gets a lot of escalated issues at the same time, which have always been a time ticking bomb.. Now, all bombs have exploded. 

It does not look good for Apple..

My take is that Apple´s Siri will always be behind.. 

 How can you claim Apple CarPlay is a failure?  I think it’s awesome unlike Siri which I never have gotten to respond consistently to my voice commands. Siri has been a red headed step child to Apple for nearly the full turn it has existed. Hopefully manage will make it semi useful.