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OpenAI Buys Jony Ive's AI Startup to 'Completely Reimagine What It Means to Use a Computer'
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Jony Ive could help S. Altman in redesigning the Death Star looking Worldcoin iris scanner.
What course correction is needed? It’s not like Apple is refusing to participate in the AI hysteria. They just misstepped big time with their delayed features. You can’t compare that to BB’s refusal to move to touchscreens and keyboards until it was too late.
Do you think Apple should release a standalone dedicated AI device too?
It helps me literally every day. I feel like I'm pretty normal, although obviously on the more tech-nerdy side than most.
How does Apple Toxic Fandom show up in a post about an AI money pit (OpenAI) and a Brit designer?
Apple has always iterated slowly. The iPhone 3GS was identical to the iPhone 3G except for the processor. People forget this stuff. The build quality of Apple products has never been better. My MacBook Pro is a better machine inside and out than anything from the Jonny Ive era.
I now know what I’d look like as an action figure
I don’t understand how it’s a strategic blow? They didn’t announce anything.
Say what you will about Nokia and blackberry but, Apple actually announced a product and then shipped it.
This is just a company saying “oh yeah, we absolutely have the iPhone killer and we have the original iPhone maker to help us do it… and we might possibly maybe but also maybe not announce it sometime next year maybe, but it’s great. I can’t tell you what it is or what it does or why you need it, but it’s so good.”
Is this the most expensive acqui-hire in history?
Yeah just some British designer
If Ive is involved it will be the thinnest AI device ever.
Also, I’m highly skeptical we’re moving away from screens towards voice as our primary interaction with our electronic leashes.
Also, I’m highly skeptical we’re moving away from screens towards voice as our primary interaction with our electronic leashes.
Disgusting and sad on so many levels.
The "next big thing" is gonna be people reducing how many screens or tech gadgets they use, en masse. Social media and smartdevices are nothing but a destructive force that make you dumber, less safe, and addicted.
desktops and laptops are fine. a basic phone or watch for calls, texts, and directions is fine.
The "next big thing" is gonna be people reducing how many screens or tech gadgets they use, en masse. Social media and smartdevices are nothing but a destructive force that make you dumber, less safe, and addicted.
desktops and laptops are fine. a basic phone or watch for calls, texts, and directions is fine.
If I had a dollar for everyone that said Apple was going to fail, but they keep going up. It feels like the people holding the signs that say, the world is coming to an end. Sure they’ll right sooner or later just like a broken clock is right two times a day.
Right. It could end up having a screen, and I think it should, personally. I’m hoping for an iPod Nano like device, or something wearable like glasses. Will be interesting to see what comes of this
Good point plus it was iPhone OS 1 that was the real breakthrough and I think it was Scott Forstall who oversaw that project.
The 3GS shipped a year after the 3G, it was completely redisgned for 4, again for the 5 and then again for the 6 and then Cook took over ..
There is a piece in Tripp Mickle's book where he talks about how Jobs would visit Ive's team pretty much daily and they were both clear that stock prices and sales metrics shouldn't define their work. No surprise Ive walked away from Cook's Apple where those things are the be all, end all.
I agree with your skepticism. I have a hard time seeing anything replacing the phone anytime soon. You need to be able to see things, and without a screen that is going to be a nonstarter for anyone who is looking to replace a phone. Augument, sure, but not replace.
Maybe see some sort of glasses that interfaces with your phone so you don't have to take it out as much?
I'm sure Sam and Jony have great talent working on this though, and it'd be great if someone could shake up the space with a compelling new device category.
I hear you. I love Gruber's take on this deal;
"This industry needs a heavy dose of new ideas for new devices. This is just a vibes teaser, but the vibe is a shot across the bow. It conveys grand ambition, but without pretension. To say I’m keen to get my hands on what they’re making is an understatement."
Sam Altman and Jony Ive Introduce ‘io’, the Device-Making Partnership Between OpenAI and LoveFrom
Link to: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
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Apple under Steve Jobs was always about new ideas and grand ambitions. Now it's just about the milking past ideas to make shareholders happy
Allow me to reflect a moment on the unspeakably huge number of narcissistic "geniuses" we will lose when The Big One hits California.
Well it is obviously AI, and supposed to be screenless. Enough info to know that „this“ will not be replacing smartphones. IMHO, of course.