Not to worry... Most people here have said, multiple times and very vociferously, they'll turn off AI whenever it's downloaded/enabled on their phones.
Why worry about something that will never be used?
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Report: Apple Discussed Buying Mistral AI and Perplexity
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Not to worry... Most people here have said, multiple times and very vociferously, they'll turn off AI whenever it's downloaded/enabled on their phones.
Why worry about something that will never be used?
A trillion would be roughly one third of Apple's current market capitalization. How is it supposed to be doing a trillion deal?
Yes, tell Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia and all the ecosystem of companies who provide cloud services and rent huge data centres what b_ll sh_t it is.
In the end Apple will be FINE; just wait and have faith.
This feels a bit like asking for more brandy while listening to the violins up on the top deck of the ship.
I sure hope AI isn't Apple's "iceberg".
Perplexity is one of the yet non-profitable companies which have raised huge investments in the hope of becoming the next Big Tech. They are in loss. It's a huge bet what they are making.
Apple is a very profitable company which has decided, until now, not to pursue the AI research, not in a convincing way.
Apple just needs to bite the bullet and put in 512 GB of RAM and allow a 500gb LLM to run locally 
I agree, but I like the idea of Mistral Ai because of it's open source nature, and it already has a base where Apple could leverage a worldwide community of developers and specialty use cases and vice versa. I think Ai is a category where open source could be a huge advantage and perhaps be easily interoperable with other systems that could be standardized or even become an industry standard.
Whatever AI is today, is not what it will eventually be. Right now it is amorphous and cannot be pinned down. Better to work with the community to see where and what it eventually becomes.
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Nice to know about what Apple is planning to do. Wonder with whom Apple will eventually partner. Not expecting to hear an official announcement any time soon.
History is full of companies that rush to profit from bubbles. If/when the AI bubble bursts in the next few years, Nvidia and the data centre providers will have made out like bandits from all the people rushing to throw money at them to not be left behind in the new gold rush. It is the AI companies (and those that have invested in them at such lofty valuations) that will be left holding the bag.
Kodak vibes, I do remember when Kodak did the same with digital cams
"A bird in hand is worth more two in the bush."
Apple has their core competency for hardware. Software has not been too spectacular in house but smart acquisitions have helped counter that deficiency.
In war, the front row troops were the first to die while the back ranks survived in larger numbers. Apple does not need to be the first into the fray. Like the "dot com" bubble, the streets will be littered with early adopters that spent huge sums and nothing to show for that spending.
Apple has their core competency for hardware. Software has not been too spectacular in house but smart acquisitions have helped counter that deficiency.
In war, the front row troops were the first to die while the back ranks survived in larger numbers. Apple does not need to be the first into the fray. Like the "dot com" bubble, the streets will be littered with early adopters that spent huge sums and nothing to show for that spending.
I think it’s there for the consumer, the problem is the consumer doesn’t yet have a clue what to do with it.
Naw, don't believe the hype. That's what the bubble echo chamber says to get clicks and manipulate Wall Street. Right now it is best to ignore the hype and Wall Street nonsense. No one is making any money on AI and there is no proprietary moat. Whatever AI is today is not it's final shape by a long shot. Right now Ai is amorphous and best to take the hype with a grain of salt.
Those loud vocal chants telling folks they are missing out is what caused Apple to fumble lat year. All they had to do is simply ignore the noise. Nothing has happened. Not only that, folks are worried about China with no modern GPU's saying they are going to steal everyone's lunch. That's amusingly paradoxical. "ACT NOW OR YOU'LL MISS OUT!" while at the same time "China is beating us with old coal and steam driven GPU's discarded by Nvidia"
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Just spend the money Tim! Investors would like to see you used the BILLIONS on hand to actually buy something once in a while. Plus, if you purchase the US company vs a foreign one, the current administration might like that more but who knows!
This comment of yours has no relation with what I was replying to, which is about calling the "cloud" a b_ll sh_t.
The cloud is not a "bubble", it's not a speculation based on projected gains. Cloud computing services are well-established, constantly growing and replacing on-premise deployments at pace. They are used by large and small companies alike, which depend on them. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are making profits from the "cloud", so it's not a b_llsh_t as stated in the previous comment.
So it's an "if" or a "when"? In the long run, every invention will eventually be replaced by a new one. If everything is a "bubble" because eventually will end, then the word "bubble" means nothing.
Note that the most recent and infamous "bubble" (the dot-com bubble) actually realized and exceeded its expectations. Sure, there were a lot of losers when it bursted, but other survived and recovered, new players emerged and thrived in the "dot-com economy".
In other words, betting that Internet was becoming one of the most important technological revolutions was the right thing to do. Forecasting who would have gained from it, deciding where to invest money and getting the timeline right is entirely another thing, much more difficult.
I think investors are mostly delighted that he keeps using HUNDREDS of BILLIONS to do stock buybacks.
Normal customers and users on the other hand...
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I think Apple is doing fine with whatever it calls AI, but also I don’t really care if someone else rises above Apple’s offerings for my use. And I really like that happens on device. I haven’t seen anyone do it materially better… but if they did, we could all just switch, right?
And I haven’t yet had the “iPhone moment”, where you use it once and say “I didn’t know that I needed this.” And I’m also not really that interested in offloading myself, create an “AI” that does something that matters and does it error free.
It won’t be. A huge issue for AI companies is trying to monetize something that competitors will be giving away for free, think DeepSeek etc.
Apple and Tesla would have been a great match. I started a Model 3 lease end of 2023, before Elon went crazy and all that.
It does so many things so much better than other cars and but fails miserably in other things because someone made a problem of something that wasn’t, then fixed it in the wrong way. Things like steering wheel indicator buttons, windscreen wipers which rely on camera vision instead of a rain sensor and the lack of parking sensors.
Sounds like the average piece of Apple hardware to me!
It does so many things so much better than other cars and but fails miserably in other things because someone made a problem of something that wasn’t, then fixed it in the wrong way. Things like steering wheel indicator buttons, windscreen wipers which rely on camera vision instead of a rain sensor and the lack of parking sensors.
Sounds like the average piece of Apple hardware to me!
Which is even further away from what Apple does. Apple doesn't make the machine that makes the machine - they outsource all of that to Foxconn in China.