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Does it help provide food, leisure time, or shelter?
Or does it make it slightly easier to be more productive at your job?
I don't work anymore. I retired from Apple in 2014. But I was able to automate my entire house, and used ChatGPT for aggregated answers to many questions and provide solutions when things didn't go as easily as advertised. And nothing was as easy as advertised!
 
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The minute Apple starts acquiring major companies to make products for them then minute Apple starts to become Google or Microsoft. Right now they are unique bc they will bring people from other companies they will buy small companies but rarely large companies to make everything for them which is what OpenAI would do.

Apple isn’t as far behind as people think. They already have the best hardware for Ai locally outside of maybe nvidia. An apple user OS missing out on what aspects of AI today? I can’t think of anything Apple users are missing out on.
"Apple isn’t as far behind as people think." It's hard for me to quantify how far behind it is, because we haven't seen evidence of anything even close to what Google, OpenAI and Microsoft are showing right now.
 
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The Vision Pro is way too heavy and expensive, but I did the demo in the store and was blown away. Miles better than the Quest I have. It's a great OS and user experience in need of a streamlined form factor. They need to iterate faster on it.
I recently acquired an Apple Vision Pro from a family member. It is amazing, especially for working on a virtual Mac display! The only downside which unfortunately is making me wear it less and less is the heavy weight pulling down on my cheeks and face overall. Thus I agree with you, Falco McGregor, that Apple needs to get a redesigned model out there asap.
 
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Wait, you don’t think anyone has spent 6.5 billion on something stupid?

Never heard of the internet bubble?
Yeah…the internet. Where half of all the online entities at any given moment are not human. And the rest are meat bags churning up or wallowing in conspiracy theories. And where Cable TV went to die only to resurrect itself in walled gardens of ala cart subscription hell. And let’s not ever forget the sock puppet puppy from Pets.com…R.I.P. Yeah…the internet…the golden pathway to enlightenment and the next stage of human evolution or so it was sold to us back in the day.
 
It seems to me from watching the video that Ive and Altman are out to replace the laptop rather than the phone.
Apparently, the product is only slightly bigger than an iPod shuffle.
I think it’s pretty clear what they are making, it’s a tiny little metal square with ChatGPT always listening.
Sounds very silly to me, and if an iPad can’t replace a laptop, this thing certainly won’t be able to.
 
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A non-linear, third core device controlling a laptop, desktop, and phone would enable a more fluid and interconnected user experience. This could involve things like seamless data sharing, context-awareness, task switching, and multi-device workflows, and interactions. This device could use contextual information (location, time, user activity) to adapt behavior on different devices. For example, if a user is in a meeting, their phone might automatically mute or reject incoming calls.
 
Ive calling Altman a visionary is a really bad sign for competition. Ive (and I think all designers/artists) are at their best when they have someone who will challenge ideas. Jobs was a challenger, a refiner of Ives design. If Altman can work with Ive the way Jobs did then we are in for an exciting few years.

Also Ive calling the Mac and iPhone “legacy products” has to stab Apple Execs in the heart.
 
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The minute Apple starts acquiring major companies to make products for them then minute Apple starts to become Google or Microsoft. Right now they are unique bc they will bring people from other companies they will buy small companies but rarely large companies to make everything for them which is what OpenAI would do.

Apple isn’t as far behind as people think. They already have the best hardware for Ai locally outside of maybe nvidia. An apple user OS missing out on what aspects of AI today? I can’t think of anything Apple users are missing out on.
pretty dumb that last paragraph. They are ridiculously behind. Embarrassingly. And you should read up more on AI.
 
I'm interested to see what form factor it will take, and how "redundant" existing devices will feel. Is it analogous to older devices being unable to connect to the internet?

A Nintendo Switch wouldn't be mind blowing to someone back in 2005 who is used to a Nintendo DS, but it would be crazy to have a console in 2025 not connected to the internet.

Looking at the intro video, Sam Altman describes the friction of getting a laptop out of the bag to ask Chat GPT something, but this friction has already been solved with Apple products: iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods.

So are "AI first" devices actually similar in form factor to existing products (like Switch compared to a DS) but include neural engines for AI processing, and extra sensors (like cameras)?

Or are there "AI first" devices coming which are to the iPhone what the iPhone was to phones, and that will blow our minds today?
 
You mean, even more spying? Oh good grief, we have enough of that as it is.
It will maybe write letters or mails in your language and maybe talk to people on the phone with your voice and select information for you on what is good for you and "what you like"? The world will become a warm and fuzzy bubble to everyone.
And then they mine krypto using your idling brain or store info there.
 
How, exactly, is AI helping normal people?

Ignore the hype from people who predict the end of the world and seem happy about it.

That said, I find AI useful day to day. I've used generative fill a ton in Photoshop and Chat GPT answer questions I used to Google, or to generate QR codes.
 
Apple faces yet another strategic blow. This development could fundamentally disrupt their position in the market, reminiscent of Blackberry’s downfall when they clung to physical keyboards while Apple revolutionized the industry with touchscreen technology. History may be repeating itself, but with Apple now in the vulnerable position.

because Apple would never be Apple and just do what Apple does.
 
A non-linear, third core device controlling a laptop, desktop, and phone would enable a more fluid and interconnected user experience. This could involve things like seamless data sharing, context-awareness, task switching, and multi-device workflows, and interactions. This device could use contextual information (location, time, user activity) to adapt behavior on different devices. For example, if a user is in a meeting, their phone might automatically mute or reject incoming calls.
A phone can do all of these and more... you are just describing software.
 
More overblown eloquent drivel from a guy (Jony) who made numerous mistakes in Apple's designs, both in hardware and software that we seem to overlook.
This new product will be so thin it doesn't exist.
 
Famously MacRumors two favourite people - I bet the comments section is going to awash with a excitement. Let me start from the top!
 
Really interesting video. The obvious bromance between Jony and Sam reminds a lot of the same bromance between Jony and Steve Jobs in the good old days before Tim Cook.

I hope they come up with something genuinely useful and revolutionary.
 
Apparently, the product is only slightly bigger than an iPod shuffle.
I think it’s pretty clear what they are making, it’s a tiny little metal square with ChatGPT always listening.
Sounds very silly to me, and if an iPad can’t replace a laptop, this thing certainly won’t be able to.
Did you even bother to read the article? They explicitly stated this new device will sit on your desk next to your MacBook and iPhone not replace them.
 
Well played, Jony. Apple is ripe for the picking.
Jony Ive is not going to do anything to damage Apple. He probably doesn’t much like Tim Cook or what he’s done to degrade product innovation over the past 14 years but I think he still holds a fondness for Apple as a company and brand that he helped create.
 
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