Nah I don’t ‘feel OK with it’. I just don’t agree with your assessment that Apple shifted their focus to the bottom line. Their (self created) image has shifted.
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Major Shareholders Planning to Force Apple to Reveal Use of AI
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Thatis what happens when you take money from people in the form of shares. You trade off their money against your shares.
You have zero idea on where "Apple is" with AI... None of us do. I think that's the whole point here.
This is already happening to the point that it’s making it even less effective for marketing material. Everyone is making sure to keep a political officer around to make sure the AIs don’t commit any ThoughtCrime.
Kind of the point. Don’t want people telling you what to do? Don’t take their money.
Yah, talk about the tail wagging the dog. Apple has already been very clear on their approach with machine learning. How many times have we heard them say "happens entirely on device", "never leaves device"...
Let Apple manage the messaging. They haven't yet released any products that use LLMs (large language models), and to force them to discuss that early is damaging to their future product planning.
I wish Apple would go private and eliminate shares.
It’s not there yet and so far underwhelming in my opinion. Appple doesn’t tend to release half baked products Sowell see what if anything iOS 18 brings to the table.
That's where Apple could play it differently... figure out how to have LLM-based tech running on-device rather that solely in the cloud.
This whole "Apple being left behind" is pure nonsense. Why do they have to compete on the same turf? They are selling the devices that enable engineers to create these Ai services *and* the devices for users to consume them. Why do they also need to be an AI provider?
Yes, Siri needs to evolve, but if someone wants ChatGPT or Google Gemini, those already work great *on Apple devices*, right?
The latter part is a bold statement considering it's $3,500 and in only one country so far.
I think a stronger analogy is that Apple used to be Oppenheimer and now they are Barbie.
Also that Apple is only producing around 500,000 units of the device and under its rosiest projections prior to production issues it encountered only planned on releasing a million units in 2024 but let’s not let facts get in the way of hating on a new device because many are priced out of owning one.
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and I pointed out some stupid things Job's Apple did.
Still they were stupid and Apple's supply chain work has been a good thing overall, IMHO.
He did write FDR to encourage research into atomic weapons.
and I pointed out some stupid things Job's Apple did.
Still they were stupid and Apple's supply chain work has been a good thing overall, IMHO.
He did write FDR to encourage research into atomic weapons.
I went with apple on my vote. Having to disclose everything you do as a company is ridiculous and drags the stock (aka my retirement) down.
Well, if I recall correctly, what Jobs said was that they should make amazing products and the bottom line would take care of itself.
The 500,000 number has nothing to do with production issues, Sony’s production line for these displays has a maximum capacity of about 1 million displays this year.
Context is important here. Einstein did his research and urged US because he knew that Germany was already working on its atomic bomb, and if they succeeded before others, it would have been catastrophic for the world.
The same FT guys that like to beat their drums with the EU DMA rumored fines are back with more rumors this time biggest investors want to know about Apple's confidential software plans involving AI tools, well you can just wait until WWDC 2024 like everyone else.
I bet Tim Cook could go through an another one on one press interview and dance away from answering any AI questions giving specifics for a hour easily.
I see we've reached the point where "Siri isn't stupid, it just pretends to be stupid because it so ahead of all the others!" in the grieving process...
Apple has never cared about anything other than their bottom line and certainly not their customers. It's why we see constant nickel & diming, soldered & glued on components, open hostility to right to repair, use of slave labor, open hostility towards unions and the endless platitudes & virtue signaling from Timmy.
Agreed, at the end of the day they are just a greedy corporate, but they are also a customer friendly brand that cares about customer satisfaction surveys, now the friendly mask is slipping away from their face.
Okey… so what do you actually know? For all we know Apple might have a banger of an AI product in the works not yet revealed. Just because Siri is trash right now, doesn’t show that a future product isn’t going to be good.Sure, here is GEMINI's answer. Too bad I couldn't ask Apple to answer your question.
Of course, I could have just used Chrome's "help me write," or ChatGPT, or Perplexity, or Bing, or Notion, or even freakin Grammarly.
Siri? "HERE IS WHAT I FOUND ON THE WEB"!!
And when you reply to the above, I can just use one of these many options to answer. But it's quicker just to do that yourself.
Just look how OpenAI Sora came out of the blue with apparently excellent text to video capabilities.
Sora: Creating video from text
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It’s absolutely not to early to know their ethical guidelines and how they might use AI tools internally
I have to agree with your 100%