Rogue01

blastdoor said:

I have now fully come around to agreeing that It’s time for Tim Cook to go. 

A lot of great things happened under his leadership, especially apple silicon in Macs, but the Apple car debacle and now the AI debacle are convincing me that Apple needs a “product guy” leading the firm again. 

What car debacle?  The car never existed as a product.  It was always a rumor.  It was a concept that never became reality.  Doesn't matter if they have a product guy.  Siri has been stupid since 2011 with Apple doing nothing to improve it, so why would you think Apple's attempt at AI would be any better with a product guy?

Microsoft went backwards.  
Windows 95, 98, 2000, Millennium Edition, XP, 7, 8, 10, 11.

The new OS naming is nice, they would be consistent.  The Macs have had the year in the model name going back as far as the QuickSilver 2002.  Now they need to fix the naming on the iPhones and iPads because those are a complete mess.  And the AirPod products as well.

"Digital assistant Siri will obviously be involved with the glasses, which should also be in a greatly improved form by the time they launch."

It is funny what they think will actually be a reality.  They can't even get Siri to work well on the phone, and that has been around for 14 years...and users are still waiting.  They still botched it and now they claim iOS 19.  Not likely.  This seems like it was written by that Apple Shill Ryan over at 9to5.  His articles have destroyed the credibility of that site with all his fantasy pieces that he claims are reality.

I don't think the author is familiar with the transitions from PowerPC to Intel and Intel to Apple Silicon.  The author claims the PowerPC to Intel transition was a rocky transition.  Totally not true. Apple transitioned every Mac model to Intel in 270 days, and every Intel Mac was far superior to the PowerPC model it replaced.  The Apple Silicon transition took over 3 years to complete, well over a year past their alleged 2 year plan.  The first M1 Macs had limited memory, limited storage, limited ports, limited features (no dual external monitor support) and no dedicated GPUs.  Apple continued to sell Intel Macs with dedicated GPUs because the GPUs were faster than the M1's integrated GPU.  Then years later they finally release a Mac Pro that is $3,000 more expensive than the model it replaced, but slots that only accept expansion SSDs.  Some Macs continued to have years old CPUs and iPads with CPUs that are not fully supported, yet should be in Macs instead, but took months to get there.  Apple Silicon Macs are fast, but took awhile for Apple to release Macs with GPUs that could match dedicated cards and to offer features that Intel Macs had the entire time.  Why was there an M4 iPad, but no M4 Mac in sight for months?  So no, Apple Silicon transition was the rocky one.  Now you have a Mac Studio with an M4 Max, but an M3 Ultra that is slower than the M4 Max for many processes.  But now Apple gets to charge an arm and a leg for memory and SSD storage.  So win for Apple, but not for the consumer.

It won’t be an AI Monster with Apple (Un)Intelligence.  Apple’s AI is a repeat of MobileMe.  Siri will be dumb forever.