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  • Apple will try to right the Apple Intelligence Siri ship, but don't expect firings

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    13485 said:
    blastdoor said:

    This is starting to look like Copland part deux from the late 90s. Steve Jobs and NextStep saved Apple then. Who will ride to the rescue this time?
    I don't think it's that bad and Apple has the ability to self-correct. 

    Copland suffered from endless feature creep, goals that were technologically almost impossible at the time, lots of executive turnover, and a company that was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. 

    Apple today has the money and the talent to fix the AI/Siri situation. I'm confident they will get this fixed eventually. 
    IIRC the CFO at the time said that Apple had over $100 million in the bank and no long term debt.  Even today that's a pretty good financial snapshot.
    Let's assume that's true. Then Copland was a hugely expensive project for Apple at that time -- up to $250 million per year: 
    https://www.cultofmac.com/news/apple-history-mac-os-copland

    Also, their financial position actually wasn't so rosy. Apple went through an extended period of time during which they managed to remain solvent by selling off shares of ARM stock. Their market share was falling. They went through three CEOs in rapid succession (Sculley, Spindler, Amelio). 

    To compare Apple of the mid 90s to Apple today, in any respect, is to deeply misunderstand Apple of the mid 90s and Apple today. 
    watto_cobra

  • iPhone Air was almost portless, but concerns about EU regulations prevented it

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    Because I always carry my iPhone in my pocket, the charging point tends to get gummed up with lint. So I never use the physical charger on my iPhone any more. Charging overnight is fine when you have a battery that lasts all day. 



    watto_cobra

  • Apple will try to right the Apple Intelligence Siri ship, but don't expect firings

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    Bingo_Wings said:
    This is starting to look like Copland part deux from the late 90s. Steve Jobs and NextStep saved Apple then. Who will ride to the rescue this time?
    I don't think it's that bad and Apple has the ability to self-correct. 

    Copland suffered from endless feature creep, goals that were technologically almost impossible at the time, lots of executive turnover, and a company that was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. 

    Apple today has the money and the talent to fix the AI/Siri situation. I'm confident they will get this fixed eventually. 
    avon b7watto_cobra

  • Apple will try to right the Apple Intelligence Siri ship, but don't expect firings

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    Luis.A.Masanti said:
    Why do people… almost always… expects ‘others to be fired’? (Obviously… never they.)

    That people… posible… made a mistake, or even a lot.
    Then… you want them to be fired. So, the company must hire new people…
    …How do we assure that they won't do the same… or even worser… mistakes?
    Maybe the only thing that is needed is a clarification or redefinition of the goals, timeframe, and controls.

    Of course, we all remember that after the failure of MobileMe's launch Steve Jobs fired the team.
    In the Maps fiasco… the —maybe only— person fired was because he did not want to sigh the apology.

    And the real solution after those debacles was a change in the head of the project… Eddy Cue took the internet services.

    Life is to have experiences. If the experience turns out as we expected, we call it ‘success,’ otherwise we call it ‘failure.’ But they are only experiences!
    The only ‘real’ failure is to not learn from experience.
     
    100% this. 

    You don't fire someone for a mistake. You fire someone for a sequence of mistakes and an unwillingness or inability to learn from them. 
    tiredskillsy2anwatto_cobra

  • Calls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence miss that he has made Apple what ...

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    My thinking on Tim Cook in 2021:

    https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/comment/3330877/#Comment_3330877

    Back then I said the most important next step for him -- after many accomplishments-- was to pick a successor. 

    I don't think he should be fired over this AI thing. But after the Car debacle and now this AI thing, I think it's become increasingly clear that he really does need to work on identifying a successor and then retiring. He's done a good job, but it's close to time for him to go. 
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