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Apple Chip Chief Johny Srouji Could Be Next to Go as Exodus Continues
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Because those are "rinse and repeat" projects. Make the chip faster. Make the chip smaller. Squeeze the chip into this new device. I suspect that if he leaves for another company, it's because that company is giving him the opportunity to build something truly new and different, something he isn't able to do at Apple.
He's not leaving.
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The article needs an update or a new thread.
So it's now back to "Apple needs a product guy leading the company". Until the next unsourced rumor pops up causing many here going non-linear saying Apple is doomed.
I disagree. Apple stock prices often fluctuate when these rumours appear in the news. So much so that the majority of my Apple stock purchases also coincide with these news reports as I’m always buying on the dips.
I doubt that’s a coincidence. Add in the sleazy nature of Wall Street and it’s easy to believe that the intent of many of these news reports is to make someone money.
It’s not just a problem for Apple. Stock manipulation has been around forever.
Guys the stock dips when they have WWDC, it goes up and down randomly when products come out or the temperature changes or the sun is behind the clouds, or not.
We've got to stop with the constant conspiracy thinking.
City -- you are asking for the impossible.
Rumor sources are not ever going to be publicly outed, and most especially when it involves C-Suite activity at Apple.
You're way too intelligent to not understand that.
Exactly my point. Apple has painted itself into a corner with its privacy stance. They can't deliver competitive AI and voice assistant technologies because of this, but if they weaken their stance at all, customers like you will revolt.
Meanwhile, all the other tech companies are running circles around Apple with these emerging technologies and Apple hasn't delivered the improved Siri they promised years ago. It's obvious they can't compete and the question is why. Are their programmers and engineers so inferior to the ones at Google and Meta and OpenAI? Doubtful. So what's the problem? I suspect it's the privacy shackles.
And? When people talk about bubbles, they're talking about money, not technology. Even if AI is a bubble and that bubble bursts tomorrow, the technology doesn't go away. Look at the legendary late 90s "dot com bubble". Sure, a lot of companies went belly up, but it's not like the internet went away. Quite the opposite.
But they do, major software and hardware releases every year. Major CPU, GPU, cellular and connectivity chip releases every year. Apple is the true tech company of the Mag 7
Yet YOU insist that Srouji did this as a “pay increase” tactic, which is just a plain rumor in itself
The stock is basically flat right now. Naturally John Gruber is dunking on him but Gurman did link to his original story. And he’s the one reporting this leaked memo so…The question is did he run with bad information or did Apple shove a bunch of money in Srouji’s face and now he’s decided to stay? Who knows.
He’s not leaving according to a memo leaked to….Mark Gurman, the guy who reported he was thinking of leaving.
It's not just young people. Plenty of people of all ages think Apple's privacy obsession is out of touch and a huge tech problem for the company. It's obviously the reason they can't build competitive AI and voice assistant technologies.
Plenty of people have realized that, despite a lot of chicken littles screaming that the sky is falling over privacy (for decades), things aren't so bad. Billions of people use devices from companies that don't care about privacy in the same way that Apple does, and those users are perfectly happy. There's a small, loud group of Apple fans who beat the privacy drum every chance they get, but in reality where's the evidence that people outside the Apple ecosystem are suffering from poor privacy safeguards en masse? I don't see it anywhere.
Scott McNealy was right back in 1999 when he said "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it!" Apple's privacy obsession has caused them to fall dramatically behind their rivals in only a few short years. They've made a lot of empty promises about fixing Siri and making Apple Intelligence competitive but have so far failed to deliver. If the privacy shackles aren't the problem, what is?
Apple's private AI could allow something like Microsoft's Recall, but with absolute security. I would love such a service.
Where is project Titan? Has anyone seen MKBHD's review of the Xiaomi SU7? He even said himself that it was the car Apple should have made. Where is the f***king Apple Car, Timmy?
Where are the AR glasses to compete with Meta? Just have all the heavy-lifting and processing done on the iPhone, and use the AR glasses to display data. Duh.
Does ANYONE on Apple's Executive Team have a goddamn brain, or are they all so old and rich that they're totally out of ideas? Just pathetic.
Where is project Titan? Has anyone seen MKBHD's review of the Xiaomi SU7? He even said himself that it was the car Apple should have made. Where is the f***king Apple Car, Timmy?
Where are the AR glasses to compete with Meta? Just have all the heavy-lifting and processing done on the iPhone, and use the AR glasses to display data. Duh.
Does ANYONE on Apple's Executive Team have a goddamn brain, or are they all so old and rich that they're totally out of ideas? Just pathetic.
I'm not sure that's true. I think folks just aren't up to speed and thinking about the implications of all the privacy violations and how they actually do impact them in many ways, large & small.
Well you didn’t agree from the start, because I said no one is irreplaceable.
In what ways? This is exactly my problem with the privacy argument. It's more about vibes and feels than actual data. You think people aren't up to speed? In what ways? Clearly you must have something concrete in mind, or are you just operating on vibes and feels too? What implications have people not considered? How are their lives measurably worse or less secure?
Personally I think all the privacy talk is largely marketing nonsense and a lot of people have fallen for it. Again, show me any evidence of massive privacy-related problems outside of the Apple ecosystem. There isn't any.
Happy to discuss, but this is WAY off topic in here.
Let's pick this conversation up if/when a thread on this comes up next.
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But I also don't really want these AI features integrated into the operating system. What Microsoft does and plans for example is a reason to move away from Windows for me.
And so far I have not seen any of these tech companies deliver much impressive stuff, mostly only "stochastic parrots". Especially MS, all their Copilot offerings are so bad that it hurts.
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Exactly.
Jobs’ goal was the same. Be #1 and profit. But he made you think you were somehow changing the universe, together.
You weren’t.