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Jony Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman Seeking Funding for Personal AI Device

Good that these two teamed together. I wish they would create something useful. Just mind the battery capacity please.
 
TwoBytes said:
This has been done already with the Rabbit R1 Mr Ive.
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R1 looks scammy as hell, and all videos of it are edited and chopped up. We know not one thing about this Rabbit company. Booking the perfect trip with a voice command? Fat chance; the perfect trip typically takes weeks to plan and requires looking and many images visually with your eyeballs. Besides, this device will probably be wrist worn, I'm assuming. But let's face it, in reality this "device" is a feature and not a device. The last thing we need is another personal device for so-called "AI" when we already carry around devices including our capable phones everyday. "AI" be it on a phone or smart watch is either an app or a Siri replacement: i.e. it is a feature.
 
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Surf Monkey said:
The hostility towards Ive is weird. Even MacRumors itself engages in it by using that intentionally awful photo of him. How insulting and unnecessary.
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I never thought this is somewhat a problem. Untill you raised this point. But but that owl does look like Johnny Ive.
Ive is indeed very clever and hard working guy, I think he can handle one picture.
 
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For people wondering what a pin you wear that is AI powered might function (without a screen) like:

Probably something like this:
Disappearing computer

Dude worked at Apple, probably knew Jony. His prototype is a bit clunky...probably needs some effective design...likewise, it depends on AI and an LLM.

Dunno if this is exactly connected to Altman and Ive, but probably something similar.
 
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MrTemple said:
Jony Ive nailed Apple's aesthetic design, got promoted out of the position he was best at, then set back Apple's functional design by a decade.

He's hailed (by aesthetic designers) as one of the greatest designers. Yet he puts functional design a distant second, compromising it for the sake of aesthetic design. Making him a highly flawed product designer by true definitions of the term.

Functional design, hidden within the trojan horse of aesthetic design, has ALWAYS been Apple's secret sauce. When he was no longer reporting to people who understood that fact, Jony Ive screwed that sauce up in a variety of ways that took many years after he left to repair.
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This is a great post. Some posters here complain that we're 'hating' on Ive. But this post says it all: explaining, very accurately - without vitriol, why people don't care for him at this point.
 
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No device should exist if it doesn’t have a decisive answer to “why isn’t this an app?”
 
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Oh no, Jony Ive. Not again. I still remember how he massacred iOS6 and released this ugly mess called iOS7 that we all still live with, because Phil Schiller “can’t innovate anymore”.

No wonder he teamed up with Open AI, yet another Musks company that does nothing most people want or need.

Rumors tell Jony will be working on a two-wheeled version of Tesla because… minimalism. Such device will be aimed on those “poor souls” who cannot afford real Tesla and maintenance of it.

But that won’t stop the mighty Jony Ive, second generation will feature ONE WHEEL ONLY. Juggling balls will be sold separately
 
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klasma said:
People won’t want to carry around another device, and it won’t replace a smartphone, so… dead in the water?
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I was thinking a wearable, like an earbud or something on your wrist, which a lot of people already use. It might be easier to convince people to replace those devices rather than their center of gravity (their smartphone).
 
Harry Haller said:
Probably concentrating on a photo of iJustine.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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im certain i'll run into her one of these days on a jog. We'll take a selfie with our mouths wide open like OMG THIS IS AMAZING!!!
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All of their success? not really. He didn't become CDO (someone who can actually make final calls) until 2015. He began winding down his work at Apple in 2018 to pursue other interests, and halfway through 2019 he had already left Apple. Apple was worth 600 billion when he started as CDO, and 700 billion when he started winding down his work. So in his 4 year run calling the shots, he only grew the company 100 billion. That's just standard projected growth based on consumers they already had locked in. Now compare that to the 4 years after he left the company grew to be valued at 3 trillion. No surprise really, as I myself and many millions of users didn't start buying Apple products until he left and all of his awful decisions were reversed. No one wanted to buy a keyboard that broke, a phone that bent, a laptop that overheated just web browsing, a laptop with no ports, a phone that you had to hold awkwardly just to get signal, the list goes on and on and on. The man was an artist, he didn't design products that were acceptable or useable for human needs and day to day tasks. The weird fanboying over a man that consistently made awful decisions that frustrated the average consumer and cost Apple millions in lawsuits and repairs is baffling.

Just one more sin waiting to be resolved. The Magic Ive Mouse.
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yah the mouse isn’t a great legacy item
 
wanha said:
This is so spot on.

For all of Ive's accomplishments, his work on UI design left a lot to be desired - particularly his total refusal to follow Apple's own human interface guidelines
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Wasn’t it Tim Cook who put him in charge of software UI? Yeah. It was.
 
The Star Trek communicator pin is on of those things from that show we do not have today. Until a suitable AI can be used with it it's going to be hard to pull it off. I would imagine it would connect to your phone through an app. At which point you can keep the phone in your pocket and just ask the pin to tell you things that are going on in your phone, like whats the latest email from so and so, you can do web searches with it, anything Siri related. You can pretty much control your phone with your voice while it's locked. Not amazing for people at home, but employees out in the field, this would be real good to focus on the task at hand and just talk to your phone to get what you need instead of holding it and staring at it, taking your gloves off to touch the screen and all that. It could work, but not as a consumer device. Its for people that can't be on a device all the time but need what devices have to offer.
 
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Considering all hate Ive gets here, I'm really looking forward to see what this will be. Something great is always coming when people here diss it. Will I finally be....doing xxx?
You all know what I mean, uhhmm, of course you don't 😂
 
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