If your goal is to destroy the company, then sure, go ahead. Fortunately Apple's BoD is generally sane.
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Gurman: Major Apple Leadership Shakeup Impending With John Ternus as Next CEO
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Siri (Apple AI) and Apple Home are a mess and any improvement will be very very welcome!
Hell no! Elon the man child who never has any vision, just takes over already successful companies and does his best to ruin them? The childish guy who names his cars Model S, 3, X, Y? The guy who makes a cybertruck like Homer Simpson makes a car? LOL!
I would disagree. How can the M series chips be anything but revolutionary? Are we not happy with Apple Watch? I am personally on my 4th one, and my wife is on her 3rd. As a customer, I'm pretty happy. Not to mention my phones and MacBook, mini, and studio. iPad pro's for me, Air for the wife, and the regular one for my kid. He's had 3 of them over the years.
Narrator: Apple has never been a hardware company. They’ve always been a user experience company at the intersection of hardware, software and services.
Well said. Gurman is not a rumor reporter bringing us new product scoops. He is a bad actor doing everything he can to sabotage Apple in order to position himself and Bloomberg as market movers. His mission is to muck rake and spread FUD about Apple. He routinely and knowingly distorts their motives and spreads malicious gossip. He is a cancer on this site and the Apple community.
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That wouldn't include me. Happy with all of my Apple products (laptops, desktop, Mini, iPads, iPhone, Watch, and HomePods). They just work and work incredibly well.
That might have something to do with being a systems, design, and hardware engineer for years. And who's pretty fussy and critical when it comes to design and usability.
I think Ternus would be an outstanding CEO, assuming he'd still have plenty of input regarding Apple products, design, and software.
Nice. I like this guy. And he’s younger, which hopefully means more innovation and fresh ideas.
I just did - woke up with 100%, used it normally during my workday (some calls, some browsing, some messaging), and came back home early evening with more than 50% battery remaining.
That’s reality, not just some forum speculation from people who don’t have that phone model.
Spent my lunch break at a usual, eating a chicken Philly at Jersey Mike's while reading a book about technology. Working on Insanely Simple by Ken Segall at the moment. Today, I was near the time where they were working on the iMac G3 with Apple about to go under...
And today we read about who the next CEO will probably be at a company worth trillions of dollars. It's kinda like watching my oldest child grow up. No matter how much I want her to be my baby girl, she's almost an adult.
And no matter how much I read about and think about the good ol days of Apple and miss my PowerBook G4 and Aqua Blue, those days are never coming back.
And today we read about who the next CEO will probably be at a company worth trillions of dollars. It's kinda like watching my oldest child grow up. No matter how much I want her to be my baby girl, she's almost an adult.
And no matter how much I read about and think about the good ol days of Apple and miss my PowerBook G4 and Aqua Blue, those days are never coming back.
You've got to be kidding. Musk is exactly the kind of CEO Apple doesn't need right now. His arrival would trigger politicization, insults, toxic workplace, mass firings, bad corporate and environmental image, instability and chaos, massive loss of customers, lack of innovation and new products (if Tesla is any indication)… And on top of this, he would charge the company 50 billion a year for his (part-time) "services". Forget it. That guy would destroy Apple.
There *is* a security advantage, up to you to decide if you think it's worth a tradeoff. Personally I'd settle for them using socketed NaND everywhere, instead of just the mini/studio/mp, and using a consistent slot. I can live with having to buy special controller-less NaND, it does bug me that I cant replace the storage at all on most machines
I also wish they'd move to CAMM for RAM, where a lot of the problems with socketed ram that apple solved by moving the ram so close to the CPU/GPU have been ironed out. though even with CAMM I'm not sure they can get as much bandwidth and speed as they do now.
The SSD functional decomposition is more so for security and pref/watt than for. speed. Benchmarks doesn't really address the design objective Apple is focusing on.
Apple isn't sad about the margins, but that isn't purely the objective.
The semi-custom RAM is performance ( and perf/watt).
Please do tell since FileVault has been available since the hard disk days and they have been on by default for years already.
'Never' might be a slightly bit of a stretch. The initial. Apple I was somewhat a 'you build it' kits. Parts were somewhat assembled by end users before use. After Jobs got more control (less of a partner start up) and after Apple II took off in volume units sold ... yes.
It is decades into the last century when they look like a 'hardware company'. It has been a very long time since not.
Sure... I'd love to have socketed memory and storage.
But I understand that "techies," people like you and me, are a small slice of Apple's consumer customer pie.
And that Apple opening up products with memory/storage sockets is asking for trouble when the general populace (mail carriers, teachers, real estate agents, police officers, doctors/nurses, street sweepers, librarians, retail sales clerks, waiters, cooks, car salespeople, musicians, and on-and-on-and-on, with *zero tech experience*, start futzing with their Apple iPhone/iPad/laptop/desktop computers.
I've been using iPhone Air exactly the same as I used my iPhone 15 Pro Max, and the battery on Air actually lasts longer.
I can easily get through the day on a nightly charge even with intense use, usually ending up with ~30% battery left by the end of the day.
Also, no issues with the phone heating up. My ONLY gripe is the slow, under-specced USB-C port (same port as iPhone 16e).
Srouji did 70+% of all that work just by himself. Not.
The group did the work. And part of the definition of a good organizational leader is producing a viable replacement for yourself; not taking all the credit from a group's work.
The silicon team has already lost a few folks and continued to execute. That's the more important part in filling that top slot.
If other parts are shifting substantially in leadership then longer would help. Fewer concurrent changes happening.
Apple doing a wider portfolio of chips is also a bit of 'bad timing' also. The Silicon team has been successful in part because their customer base has been so small. While their major competitors try to make "everything for everybody" (and spread more thinly in focus ).
nescape was huge in the browser market and they eventually died.
end user Internet. ... AoL. and faded.
Big doesn't necessarily mean you win. OpenAI spends money like a drunken sailer. As long as they pervert the definition of "AI" into spends as much money as possible then will continue to win in a bubble. if the bubble pops and they still spend money like drunken sailers is that going to work????? Probably not.
Lot's of stuff that OpenAI is trying to do is define "AI" by their own offerings. "ChatGPT" is 'AI'. when the bubble pops that isn't necessarily going to be tractable.
As useful on-device inference grows in value add , OpenAI isn't necessarily the 'winner' there. It is the "expensive as possible cloud' war that they are 'winning'.
When the core basis of their strategy is to make things are expesnive as possible to operatin are they likely to find a way to monetize it?
OpenAI is a non-profit. The actually aren't allowed to make money so the current company spends it as fast as hype buzzed investors throw new money into the coffers ( it all goes right back out as fast as possible).
[ This is very different from Amazon's early mid-life era when they made money but folded all of the profits back into growing a bigger business. The investor money is what is flowing in a deluge (hoping some bigger fool buys out their share later at a even higher price) , not customer money. ]
[ Very similar to the bubble factors being ignored where 40-50% of Nvidia hyper growth revenues are coming from less than 10 customers. What if 50% if them 'quit' throwing money at Nvidia like a drunken sailor. How fast is that going to deflate. the customer base here is quite brittle. ]