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Apple's Work on Robots: What We Know So Far
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I want a robot:
1. That can Clean
2. For Sex. - must have DeepFake capabilities.
3. Can Cook
4. Does not require a prenup
5. Comes with a Ball Gag
6. Must have a holder for iPad at face and tramp stamp position.
1. That can Clean
2. For Sex. - must have DeepFake capabilities.
3. Can Cook
4. Does not require a prenup
5. Comes with a Ball Gag
6. Must have a holder for iPad at face and tramp stamp position.
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Even roombas which aren't top vacuum robots haven't been that limited for several years.
They do have spatial awareness (and that doesn't need AI) and higher end models do use AI on their obstacle avoidance.
Apple could easily do a good robot but it doesn't seem like a good fit for me.
Apple is at its best doing devices people love to use. Nobody has to pay iPhone, MacBook, whatever prices but people like those devices.
Nobody loves using a vacuum robot, just like nobody loves using washing machines. People enjoy their benefits but even there's very little attachment to the devices.
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Apple’s focus is very poor. How about a clothing folding machine, health sensors that can be placed in a bed, toilet, or shower that can detect ailments and diseases based on what comes out of a person’s body, or piezoelectric flooring that when walked on produces electricity which then can used to help power a home? There are SO many HELPFUL products that can be produced, but need expensive R&D. Apple is just playing it safe, hence why the Apple car project was scrapped. Apple is a FOR PROFIT company and not imaginative.
Dropping the car was a mistake with all of the alleged patents they developed over the years. Tim should invest in Fisker as it closely matches what was Apple's goals of a zero carbon footprint in 2 years. Lunch money from Apple can save $FSRN. Apple should have bought Ubiquiti and established it's networking arm. Apple could have owned the home automation market instead of trying to squeeze licensing fees and poorly supporting HomeKit. They need to be everywhere within reason to survive now. It may be too late...
I've been an investor since 1997 or so and recently sold out. Apple has no soul anymore and is no longer on the tips of our tongues. Tim should get his retirement plans together as the company is now at an all-time low.
[I do believe the Roomba rumour was an April Fools Joke].
I've been an investor since 1997 or so and recently sold out. Apple has no soul anymore and is no longer on the tips of our tongues. Tim should get his retirement plans together as the company is now at an all-time low.
[I do believe the Roomba rumour was an April Fools Joke].
Still better than skigoogles and knockoff unreleased tesla. At least Apple Robot is gonna be useful. Hope they won’t be susceptible to virus attacks, or unless it will be some dystopian world.
Just imagine: you don’t need to type in any searches and just tell robot (which will be controlled by some AI-upscaled version of Siri) to search for you and show everything. Lazy things that we all want
Just imagine: you don’t need to type in any searches and just tell robot (which will be controlled by some AI-upscaled version of Siri) to search for you and show everything. Lazy things that we all want
I always thought the car was stupid, and this is worse.
Once upon a time, Steve Jobs had a vision for some thing that he knew people would want, even though they don’t know they want it. Those devices made up all the best company in the world.
Now, Apple is just trying to be another copycat company.
I think they should double down on the Vision Pro. I finally was able to do a demo in the store. At the moment it is a horrible beta device that only (with respect to myself and my friends) a geek could love. However, I can imagine a device that looks more like the rayband glasses that the competitor is producing. At the moment they’re terrible but at least from a design perspective it’s actually something that a consumer might want and use.
where is the vision?
Exatly.
Due to all the moving parts, and thereby points of failure, Apple would never do a moving robot. Or really anything with wheels or robotic legs.
The r&d costs and inevitable repairs doesn't interest Apple.
What we will get is more devices like lower-cost AirPods with even less features than AirPods 3rd. Gen, and built using lower quality materials.
Or what about a great new USB-C Apple Pencil that does even less than the one they launched in 2015?
Or what about the amazing
Nothing new, no. But great ways to line the already heavy pockets of Apple's shareholders.
Just keep "upgrading" to that new, "best ever" Apple product and don't look too hard at the specs and prices!
Here’s what I found at ihop and Denny’s.
When I observe Apple, I understand perfectly why in the ancient Japanese medieval society, merchants occupied the lowest level of the hierarchy, almost compared to thieves, perhaps they exaggerated, but for some reason, RAM and SSD upgrades make me think that these Orientals were wiser than one might think.
probably looks like zuckerberg compound in Hawaii. All of these tech billionaires and CEOs have the same dystopian fantasy of what the future will look like.
I really wish Apple had not gotten rid of the tower that I bought from them a few years ago. It really worked in a nice plug and play fashion. I know it’s probably more money than the competition, but some of us are just happy to buy apples, simplicity design system.
The word rumor has no definition anymore.
What amounts to a rumor today can merely be a genuine journalist from a publication seeing a nobody shoveling out some random half-baked nonsense and reporting it because it sounds good. Then forum websites repeat it and there you have it: a rumor. Then those spreading the nonsense ultimately hide behind the term “rumor” with no accountability for even the slightest form of accuracy or authenticity. These rumors are best viewed as wild eyed novelties.
Wrong. The Neato floor mapping system is far more efficient than random bumping around.
I have three J9’s and they don’t operate like that whatsoever, and they do an amazing job.
I’d say chip developement wasn’t exactly trendy or cool yet they just delivered an outstanding processor family.
Give them time, the car failure means nothing. Also, we don’t know where they’re going with their LLM.