blastdoor

Sounds like it will be the Ultimate Computer. Hopefully it doesn't start drawing more power than expected. 

Typically the point of an acquisition is to gain technology, productive assets (like factories), employees, or customers. But I don't see Apple as falling short in any of those areas. 

Apple's problem really is with their senior management's failure of vision and strategy. Either senior management needs to self-correct or the board will have to get involved. 

9secondkox2 said:

Just come out with the whole thing:

homeOS router, lights, speakers, iPad mount, door locks, thermostat, etc. etc. 

make it so it just works. 

100%. Home automation is a challenging market, but it's a challenge Apple should have faced head on with a multi-year strategy. Instead they've just been d!cking around, kind of like how they've been d!cking around with gaming on the Mac. 

Apple no longer feels like a company with a clear vision and strategy for achieving that vision. They are starting to remind me more and more of the bozo-led company I work for. 

mpantone said:

LLMs are a dead end

If the models underlying the leading chatbots never get any better than they are today, they will still make (and are making) a huge positive impact on productivity. The real “dead end” is the career of anyone who can’t or won’t figure out how to take advantage of this technology.

Two things can be true at once. Apple’s historical strength as a company has been to pull together existing technologies into a coherent, useful, and elegantly designed product. So it makes sense that they would view an LLM as a technology that they will combine with other technologies to make a great product. Thad’s all well and good. But they are also seriously behind in actually doing that.

Where is Swift Assist? Why isn’t Siri better? Why is image playground so limited?