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0 pointslubujackson7mo ago0 comments

If history is any indication, Microsoft will slowly improve until things become sort of decent, then Apple will release a neutered but polished version that is lauded as "Apple Invents AI" and immediately dominate the market.

But their version will lack one critical feature that everyone expects, such as a power button, or copy/paste, or pinch to zoom. For AI, maybe something like "remember context".

Then 3 years later they will invent "remember context," and everyone will lose their shit again.

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NewJazz7mo ago

The article addresses Apple's historical late mover advantage strategy, and suggests that Tim Cook doesn't have the same vision that Jobs had to pull those moves off.

IOT_Apprentice7mo ago

Cook isn’t a visionary, he is an ops & logistics guy. He has a major problem with failing at AI and lying last year about “Apple Intelligence”.

He needs some fresh blood in software as well.

He should just buy something like Claude and lock them in with stock and very high salaries.

He should also stop scrimping on integrated memory on the M series. Overpriced memory is a huge issue. And do something about the GPU as well.

Perhaps an AI N series with 128gig of ram, & dramatically more powerful GPU with higher core/thread count.

danielscrubs7mo ago

Buying competency and hoping for the best sounds exactly what an economist would do.

They will probably leave as soon as their manager becomes just the run of the mill babysitter manager with charisma.

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delfinom7mo ago

Ah yes, Jobs famously could solve the LLMs being shit problem overnight.

By convincing users they want hallucinating, gas lighting imps in their pockets 24/7 to reinforce their thoughts.

And he would have been all over it given his own alt-medicine beliefs.

johnisgood7mo ago

He is dead, we cannot be certain.

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