Pema

I wouldn't worry too much about Goldman Sachs. 
A mere four years ago they cost taxpayers billions of dollars with their dodgy investments in toxic assets and then dodged their responsibility by refusing to take ownership of the problem. 
I would suggest that a great many taxpayers wanted out the sub prime mortgage crap and couldn't just exit the arrangement while Goldman Sachs sailed off into the sunset. 

CheeseFreeze said:

Siri was always incredibly bad but suddenly feels infantile, now that I’m working witch ChatGPT a lot.

Apple has a problem. They say they’ve been investing a lot in AI, but I don’t believe for a word they’ve worked on the tech like OpenAI is delivering today; that’s just damage control by Tim Cook to keep shareholders at ease.

'witch' I thought we were talking about AI not Voodoo 

And the list goes on (sung to the tune of The Beat Goes On):

1. MS Mobile
2. Windows (last legs)
3. Cortana 
4. Bing Schming (as heavily used as MySpace)
5. Surface (dying days)

Companies like MS are product-wise linked to Google: one-hit wonder. And then they sit around looking for new paths to forge. So they look at the fruit in Cupertino and they come up with tablets; services; phones; headphones and on and on. And they fail miserably. 

And just as they are coming up for air Apple outpaces them by a trillion miles with Vision Pro. I am certain that Google with its poor hardware record will never attempt anything similar (remember Googles Myopic Glasses ) and I am certain that MS simply does not have the skill to put together a mixed reality headset. 

Where is the monopoly of DOS? 

melgross said:

gatorguy said:

Google Pixel sales were up 48%?? That sounds excessive, but there's nothing I can find disputing it. Still questionable IMO, which makes the overall figures at least a little suspect. 

I don’t find that suspect. Remember, when sales are very small, it’s easy to have a large increase. It’s also easy to drop significantly. Google has just a few million sales a year.

Exactly right. If your sales base is a couple of million phones in any given year than doubling that qualifies an increase of 48%. 

It never fails. Every quarter right before Apple is due to announce it quarterly earnings AppleInsider posts the now well-known photo of Tim with Luca standing right behind him, both grinning from ear-to-ear. 

I guess if the Apple wasn't doing well we would have a different pic. 

I would be grinning too if I was at the helm of a $3 trillion company.