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  • Apple is lying about Apple Intelligence, John Gruber says -- and he's right

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    If anyone ever used HomeKit and had a hub, they kinda knew the AI Siri part was complete bullshit. There’s no way they could have gotten everything together in this short time AND fixed the bugs that Homekit has with Siri being intertwined. 

    One big challenge is how Apple uses privacy with its services. They strip out identifying things when collecting data, which makes things much more complicated when trying to create data lakes to be used in AI. 

    There’s no way that Siri ships with the features Apple is touting until maybe the next iPhone cycle. There’s just too much stuff to fix. Craig is in charge and he should have been more forthcoming to Tim that this shit isn’t ready. Otherwise he’s gonna join his Next buddy Scott on the chopping block. 
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  • Microsoft blew $8.5 billion on Skype only to spend 14 years killing it

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    Luis.A.Masanti said:

    It would be like saying that Apple ‘blew’ $3B to buy Drew's company… to build up Apple Music streaming service.
    Well they kinda did. Beats hardware at the time was overpriced for what you were getting and Apple only wanted the streaming service. The headphones were more of a fashion statement like the AirPods Max. They had way too many lines of them and they were designed with a lot of little weights to make them feel like a quality product when they weren’t.  Most of the talent from Beats still works for Apple and now they’re making much better hardware compared to before Apple bought them. 
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  • Services buoy slumping iPhone sales in record-breaking holiday quarter earnings

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    fred1 said:
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    lol. A 0.008608321377331 drop in phone sales revenue is “slumping”?

    Good one. More in line with the text itself “marginal”. 

    Buy a better headline writer. 
    Not clear where you got that number, that had neither a per cent symbol nor a unit after it. iPhone sales revenue declined $600M. While that's notch in terms of the overall sales picture for Apple, it's a fair chunk of change. I mean, would you turn $600M down if someone offered it to you?

    It’s less than 1%.  Hardly “slumping”.   Problem is Wall Street culture, and those who write about it expecting exponential growth not just in the bottom line, but  individual segments as well.  Meanwhile, Apple is selling almost a quarter trillion dollars worth of iPhones every year.  

    It’s slumping when Apple and everyone else wanted and expected growth, not loss, no matter how small the growth. 
    They would have had more growth if AI would have shipped on time and to more countries. It was delayed and released piecemeal.  Siri was mostly MIA on what it was supposed to do to round out AI and has gotten worse.  

    People are not buying new iPhones for AI, they’re buying them for the same reasons why they bought the previous models. 



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  • Twenty years of the Mac mini, the little Mac that could

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    Back when Costco started selling these all-in-one bundles with keyboards, mice, and AppleCare for the same price as Apple’s mini, I was intrigued. They were a bit tricky to open, and I accidentally broke a few teeth on different cases while upgrading the RAM, but there were enough of them to not make a big deal. 
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