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Apple's Secret Robotics Team Gets New Leadership
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He also killed Macromedia Director when he took over that project. I truly don't know why he continues to float in the system.
Nah, not to worry, this is a consumer product, not pro, those suckers will be non-removable plied with ample glue, new device needed as a replacement.
macrumors writes:
"and the shift is a clear indication that Apple leadership does not feel that he can lead multiple teams."
this assertion by macrumors is not supported by any of the known details that macrumors has so far reported.
my take on all that has been reported by macrumors and other outlets is that apple finally is realizing that the potential of all these related areas is far too big for 1 person to effectively manage.
apple changing the management leadership now for these several areas all at this same time is by itself an admission that apple senior most management level(s) did not understand the importance of succeeding in ALL of these areas in an impossibly quick timeframe, in order to catch up in ALL of them.
the challenge for apple going forward, is how to coordinate the progress of these now separate teams' output in a way that makes actual product/firmware/app/AI cross platform coherence. its been disbursed.
apple has a proven track record of not effectively coordinating diverse team's work output.
"and the shift is a clear indication that Apple leadership does not feel that he can lead multiple teams."
this assertion by macrumors is not supported by any of the known details that macrumors has so far reported.
my take on all that has been reported by macrumors and other outlets is that apple finally is realizing that the potential of all these related areas is far too big for 1 person to effectively manage.
apple changing the management leadership now for these several areas all at this same time is by itself an admission that apple senior most management level(s) did not understand the importance of succeeding in ALL of these areas in an impossibly quick timeframe, in order to catch up in ALL of them.
the challenge for apple going forward, is how to coordinate the progress of these now separate teams' output in a way that makes actual product/firmware/app/AI cross platform coherence. its been disbursed.
apple has a proven track record of not effectively coordinating diverse team's work output.
Jobs’s very first measure was to stop Apple from trying to cover every single market out there; his four product matrix was instrumental in ensuring Apple’s resurrection.
As for Cook, he’s just the DEI version of Michael Spindler, with the advantage of having inherited SJ’s huge bonanza times. His ousting is way, way overdue.
Somehow you had to shoehorn DEI in your argument? Weird. No Tim Cook doesn't not have to go. He's not Jobs.. we all know that.. but the issues at Apple are industry wide. There's only so much you can do with a rectangle in your hand. Apple just gets the brunt of the criticisms because it’s designed here in the US. The issue is that we've reached a sort of plateau and AI or robots and all those baubles won't pull us out of it.
Simple concept. A cell phone is designed to use the cell network to make and receive calls - period. The simple phones are now made of un-attainium. What is available is an ever getting heavier device with more computing power than the entire first moon launch had. This is in a hand held device that monitors your every spoken word and those around you, takes pictures we think only when we want to etc etc.
Our new travel reality is that we need a flip phone with just cellular capability to go thru immigration. An erasable call log is the only data on the phone. The Feds/States have the location of the device probably to ten foot radius now all of the time.
A letter to a friend at the foreign destination could have necessary phone numbers for while there.
Our new travel reality is that we need a flip phone with just cellular capability to go thru immigration. An erasable call log is the only data on the phone. The Feds/States have the location of the device probably to ten foot radius now all of the time.
A letter to a friend at the foreign destination could have necessary phone numbers for while there.
I honestly wonder what will John Giannandreia’s legacy will be?
Apple is removing another project from AI chief John Giannandrea, and he will no longer oversee Apple's secret robotics division, according to Bloomberg.
After Apple failed to deliver promised Apple Intelligence Siri features on time under Giannandrea's leadership, Apple asked Vision Pro chief Mike Rockwell to oversee the Siri team and future Siri development instead.
Now the robotics team will make a similar move, transitioning to the hardware division where robotics development will be overseen by Apple senior vice president John Ternus instead of Giannandrea. Giannandrea continues to head up Apple's AI and machine learning efforts, and changing the robotics team leadership will give his team more time to focus on new artificial intelligence features. Giannandrea has hundreds fewer engineers to manage, and the shift is a clear indication that Apple leadership does not feel that he can lead multiple teams.
Apple is making major management changes in order to further prioritize Apple Intelligence, as it needs to catch up with Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, and other AI companies that are leagues ahead in AI development.
Kevin Lynch, who oversaw the development of the Apple Watch and Apple's now-canceled car, is leading the robotics team. Apple has several robotics projects in the works, and a tabletop robot with an arm that can move around an iPad-style display could be the first device to come from the robot team. Apple is also planning for a more mobile robot that would be more like an iPad on wheels able to carry out simple tasks, place calls, and answer queries.
Ternus is a top Apple exec and he has worked on some of Apple's biggest products, overseeing the hardware engineering of the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other devices. He already oversees another hardware engineering team working on robotics and smart home technologies, and Bloomberg suggests that Apple's move to merge the two robotics teams could indicate that Apple is ramping up robot development.
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Is it really a secret team if articles are being published about it? More like "a secretive team".
I thought one of the main things that made humans superior to all other life forms was our ability to walk up and down stairs. Turns out it's not as hard as we thought.
I for one am happy to not have any user-facing, overly apparent AI shoved in my face by my appliances. The Google AI summaries are already annoying enough. When I use Google to do research, I have to now wade through paragraphs of half-hallucinated text and associated links, which is a waste of my time, and I am glad not to have to deal with some half-baked AI assistant for my other tasks as Apple has been thankfully reluctant to unleash this crap on its users, unlike Google.
Regarding Giannandrea, where does it say that him giving up responsibilities is something he was forced to do, as opposed to him maybe not wanting to have to deal with managing all these disparate projects?
I already got a roomba, so there's that. In a world where the robot can do more than just clean the floor, I guess
Some comments are a bit unfair to Giannandrea given his job really is to focus on the AI development of Apple’s offerings. His time is better off in focusing on privacy-driven AI then implementing that AI on Siri and Apple Intelligence. It’s like asking a nuclear scientist to develop the nuclear reaction technology of a reactor as well as overseeing the architecture plans and build of said reactor.
