Laurene Powell Jobs and Jony Ive Reveal Why Tech Has 'Gone Sideways' in Rare Interview

[Unregistered 4U]

It never fails to blow my mind how often I see people have full volume speaker phone conversations on public transit

people just don't care

Not that I’ve ever done this, but I’ve known people that have recorded their conversation, used that information to easily find their social media accounts, create a burner account to send them some of the audio, then delete the account. That’s all they did, but I’d like to think that person learned a lesson and speaks lower in public now.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Yes, I thought I'd read that it will be an unobtrusive, screenless slab that you place near you, on a table, chair, etc., and it'll have microphones and cameras that monitor you and your surroundings, and use that information in some way that the user finds useful, presumably communicating with the user through speakers.

Not having a screen is supposed to reduce the device's distraction level, but if this device is always talking at and with you, that might just create a different but similar level of distraction, especially for people around you who don't want to hear your conversations with your device. Maybe you're expected to wear ear buds whenever you're using this thing, but people around you will still hear your side of the "conversation".

Maybe Ive will suggest that the proper etiquette for using this device is to deploy it only when you're alone, or among people who won't mind the chatter, but that would limit its usefulness, so you know that a lot of people would still bring it out even in restaurants, crowds, elevators, etc., all the same places people currently use their smartphones.

I would want mine to be the size, shape and noise level of a Ghost Catcher. Pull it out, set it on the table with the appropriate light and audio fanfare, then tell the person sitting with me, “Go on?”

 

[bluecoast]

The iPhone’s killer will be another physical device. All software companies will do is make apps for the physical devices out there and, as long as Apple continues to make physical devices the way they do, there will always be some small percentage of all smartphones sold that will be what those affluent people use to access all these services. The software companies have all given up on making hardware, so what kills the iPhone will be something else made by Apple that replicates enough of it’s features to be worth replacing the iPhone for.

Jony Ive is of course making a physical device.

When I said 'killer' I was exaggerating a little. The smartphone is so useful it's going to be around us yet. But it might be that something like Jony Ive and chatGPT make starts to be the essential device - and not the smartphone.

 

[deconstruct60]

It’s going to be something you don’t wear or pocket, but keep all times with you, right? It needs to be smooth and discreet. I get it now. It’s going to be… an insertable thing.

People had wallets in their pockets for over 100 years before the smartphone came along. Absolutely nothing in Ive "non wearable" excludes pockets.

Screens in a pocket are useful how? Smartphones and pockets don't inherently go together. Just because not trying to be a smartphone doesn't exclude it from a pocket. And wireless connections don't need to be "inserted" either to work with other devices.

I highly doubt they are looking for it to be a 'exclusive' device (the 'only' device you buy). More so along the lines of how smartphone cameras diminished compact cameras/camcoders/DSLR cameras. The 'best' camera is the one you have with you.

Pretty likely for the folks who like to go pocketless there will be some lanyard+attachment so can dangle it around your neck/chest and wear like a medallion/pendant. Just not the primary mode.

 

[deconstruct60]

Non-wearble and no screen moves it away from Humane Pin and Rabbit AI devices also.

. Non-wearable and no screen makes it a drone that floats near you constantly, I guess?

Did wallets in the 80's and 90's float around you? You car/house keys in the 60-90's ? Nope.

the Humane pin is more so oriented to interact with the world than the user. It is attached to you clothers facing away from you. I suspect this OpenAI device is going to be meant to be talked too. ( a box to have a conversation with). With a holder and a lanyard it probably could be attached and wearable. But that isn't the primary mode.
Pretty likely it would pair wireless to earbuds/headset . So could wander down the street "talking to yourself'. Wearing outside pocket and attached to your chest helps how in that context?


Rabbit had a screen. Screen is bigger and heavier and a battery power sink.


I don't think it is going to have very high powered local AI computational horsepower. The primary purpose is to keep you hooked to the remote big(or relatively even bigger) brain in the cloud.