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Apple's Push Into AI Allegedly Happened After Craig Federighi Tried Microsoft AI Coding Tool
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Within 2 years Snapdragon will be back to only smartphones and tablets. Their PC ambitions will fail. Screenshot this and stick it on a wall because I’m the lord of smacking down bad predictions with better predictions. In 2 years send me gold medal emojis.
If that is true how come the snapdragon x elite is way cheaper with 45 tops compared to the M4 with 38 tops?
Supposedly the iPad Mini exists because Eddy Cue tried a 7” Android tablet and was convinced there was a market for a smaller iPad.
If true I will 😃. I would love to share your optimism. I was optimistic 10 years ago. But seeing the track record of failures and lag in development it made me more pessimistic.
If Apple already knew that AI would become that big… how come they still sell computers with 8 GB of Ram (not future proof)
They failed with processors before. Remember PowerPC?
They bought the modem division from intel to compete with Qualcomm and still aren’t able (if ever) to introduce one.
They failed on the Apple car because they couldn’t come up with something competitive.
They failed with Siri.
Their iCloud business is nothing to brag about.
Snapdragon X elite is Qualcomm’s first iteration of their chip and it already beats apples M3.
I hope your optimism is justified and if WWDC 2024 is showing something the competition can only dream of, I owe you my apology. If history repeats Apple always finds a way to underwhelm. Especially since Timmy is around.
That’s an entry level office computer for word processing and spreadsheets. If you are serious about LLMs or generative whatever you need 24-32GB minimum which is too high for entry level computing.
Motorola/IBM made them and their only failure was they consumed a lot of energy. They were clock for clock better than Intel for many years and drove Apple’s growth.
The mach kernel that macOS sits on always ran on Intel chips going back to the 90s. You can download the Intel version of NextSTEP and run it in Virtual Box.
There was no Apple car. They were developing sensors and software for navigation systems and dashboards. There is no evidence that they would have built a car and doing so is extremely costly.
It’s not an “AI”. It’s an application interface and has been successful enough for what it does.
It’s literally the backbone of Apple Music, Apple TV, and the App Store.
It doesn’t beat the M3 per core and when it does come close the power consumption is twice as high.
Thank you for allowing me to completely own every statement you made. It gave me great satisfaction. I will now reward myself with ice cream.
Read what I said. I need to look at long term. I would not be surprised if Adobe changes to scan local files too.
Also, I trust my lawyers over an Adobe FAQ and internet posters that think this is just clickbait. If he is concerned, I need to listen. Next step to continue to train AI is to use local files.
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It will be interesting to see how Apple spins this as anything other than copying what Microsoft and Google have already done, 5 years late.
This happens all the time in technology. Microsoft missed the boat on mobile, for example.
You really need to do more diligence. You are going to be shocked. I'd recommend YouTube channel Digital Engine as a starter. It's clear a lot of Apple fans are also behind the curve on AI, capabilities and quite honestly very scary future.
Which is ironic because one year Apple hung banners at WWDC that said “Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers”.
Microsoft was busy bungling Longhorn and saw what Apple had done with Leopard… so they started over and came up with Vista.
Just note that this is for M4 in an iPad Pro, that is thiner than anything they have ever made before and no fans. We may not even be getting proper "TOPS" for what maybe an under clocked M4. Let alone what it could end up being as an Ultra variant. Could be up to 80?.... And if they announce something like that during WWDC for say the Mac Pro tower. Or Studio. They could all go kick rocks with flip flops BEFORE they even ship a product.
The WSJ is essentially state-run media for Apple. Everything they report about Apple was "leaked" from the company itself, to skirt SEC rules.
Thank you! It's refreshing to read something thoughtful on this forum, instead of the usual tedium (i.e., bashing of Tim/Craig/Siri/iOS/MacOS).
Ummm...which is it? AI is just a FAD or AI is something vital that Apple is far behind on?
First off, there's no way Apple wasn't highly aware of AI efforts until Mr. Federighi played with an implementation of it. Those of you taking this article seriously to prop up your oft-repeated protestations of Apple are funny. But stay true to you! 
I have no problem with Apple pacing their AI implementations at a slower pace. I've played quite a bit with LLMs and their capabilities, but have yet to implement any of it into my regular life. I still find it to be significantly under developed. But this is much like the debate of Android users who keep repeating "We've had that feature for years!!!!" Android and other companies use a "throw everything in" attitude to OS development. I hate the model, and prefer Apple's slow and steady approach to product updates and releases.
I don't expect Apple to be throwing out features as quickly as the rest of the computing world. I expect them to better curate those features that will be most useful to end users and most ready to implement.
We'll see on Monday what that looks like.
I have no problem with Apple pacing their AI implementations at a slower pace. I've played quite a bit with LLMs and their capabilities, but have yet to implement any of it into my regular life. I still find it to be significantly under developed. But this is much like the debate of Android users who keep repeating "We've had that feature for years!!!!" Android and other companies use a "throw everything in" attitude to OS development. I hate the model, and prefer Apple's slow and steady approach to product updates and releases.
I don't expect Apple to be throwing out features as quickly as the rest of the computing world. I expect them to better curate those features that will be most useful to end users and most ready to implement.
We'll see on Monday what that looks like.
Craig, how about a clipboard manager? A better window management for the MacOS?
First off, there's no way Apple wasn't highly aware of AI efforts until Mr. Federighi played with an implementation of it. Those of you taking this article seriously to prop up your oft-repeated protestations of Apple are funny. But stay true to you!
I have no problem with Apple pacing their AI implementations at a slower pace. I've played quite a bit with LLMs and their capabilities, but have yet to implement any of it into my regular life.
We'll see on Monday what that looks like.
I can certainly see a top level executive seeing a competitor’s product as a “wake-up call” to move faster or in a different direction.
Nah, probably a big reason they skipped M3 is because it's manufactured on the N3B process.
A friend of mine told me an hour ago that last night he updated his phone firmware (Samsung, I don't know exact model) including AI for daily use. This said, today is being an extreme painful day for him because this AI has sent emails, messages, corrected (unnoticed) words on Whatsapp and so on, to different people in his contact list. He is still (21:53 CEST) undoing "things" this Samsung AI has done on its own. So keep calm, Apple has put a devil aside for us (I adore Queen music)