I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody tossed this old trope onto the MR forums…..
its a good trope...it reminds Apple they are off the path. There is a reason why Apple product is not like Lenovo, Dell, Acer, or HP.
I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody tossed this old trope onto the MR forums…..
Any investor in Apple prays they stay off the path you are proposing.its a good trope...it reminds Apple they are off the path. There is a reason why Apple product is not like Lenovo, Dell, Acer, or HP.
Make it a WiFi router.. bring back AirPort.
the path that was set by the guy who turned the company from bankruptcy to $300 Billion at his death? then took them all the way to $2T using same methods? hmmmm....Any investor in Apple prays they stay off the path you are proposing.
You said Apple is off the path. If this is what “off the path” looks like then I hope they never step foot on a path again!the path that was set by the guy who turned the company from bankruptcy to $300 Billion at his death? then took them all the way to $2T using same methods? hmmmm....
Its off the path with the HomePod which they themselves discontinued, so....You said Apple is off the path. If this is what “off the path” looks like then I hope they never step foot on a path again!
Yeah, the Homepod was a quirky stand alone product that really didn't seem to have a clear purpose. Audiophile speaker for Apple Music? Not really, since when it was introduced it couldn't even stereo pair. Audiophiles want stereo. Party speaker? No. No battery for portability, no Bluetooth.Its off the path with the HomePod which they themselves discontinued, so....
Apple may well feel that they just want to be “in the game”, but don’t have to win it. But if that is true, then I strongly disagree. If they are so shortsighted that they don’t understand the game changing importance of machine learning and having a virtual assistant that operates much more comprehensively and intuitively, then heaven help Apple. At a certain point, being tied to the worst AI Virtual Assistant will be the boat anchor around their necks that pulls the whole ship down. In the future, tour guides will lead groups of people over the wreckage site and say “here lies the biggest hardware company in the world, who forgot they were a software company too...”Siri's main problem is that it was never well defined. What is it supposed to be? A way to interact with existing Apple services like Music and TV+? A Star Trek computer forerunner to answer all your historical and trivia questions? An entertaining and fun companion? A digital assistant to take care of mundane household tasks like scheduling and ordering?
Any product that remains undefined is going to be a murky mess and do nothing well. I doubt the Siri team has clear guidance on success metrics if they cannot define what their product is supposed to be. I don't blame them or flame them - it's a product with almost limitless potential, but what's the next most important thing to build into Siri? Who knows?
Secondarily, how does Apple monetize Siri? At this point, with a two trillion dollar valuation, Apple needs new services and products that have a clear path to generate tens of billions in revenue. There aren't that many opportunities to generate that much revenue, which is why I think they canned HomePod Big Boy and AirPods Max may be limited. Those markets are just too small.
I don't see how Siri can generate that much cash either. We're not going to pay a subscription fee for a better Siri at this point and they cannot monetize it with ads. It's probably seen within Apple as "we have to be in the game for speech assistants, but we don't have to win the game."