It’s pretty hard for a company to do something outside their core competency.
Remember when Google launched a social network?
Remember when Facebook made a phone?
Remember when intel tried to make mobile chips?
Apple is the best in the world at making expensive computers in various sizes. From pocket size to desktop. And some peripherals. That’s their core competency. AI is not on the list.
FWIW I don't think that Google+ was a technological failure. On the contrary, it was quite a bit better than Facebook at being, well, social. The problem is that it doesn't matter if all people you actually want/need to talk to are already somewhere else. You can't really peel users off one by one, because each of them has their social graph locking them in.
Perhaps you're wrong, perhaps you're right, but it's the "Apple makes rare stumble" journo trope/narrative I was questioning tbf, not Apple themselves.
I don't know if the Vision Pro counts as a stumble. If they were planning to make a mass-market product, they wouldn't have priced it so high. Apple doesn't reveal sales targets, but I bet they sold about as many Vision Pros as they expected to.
No need to go that far.
Search in Mail is abysmal since forever. Everyone knows it. Apple knows it. No change still. So, no surprise here.
Don't forget the first version of Mail in Catalina destroying data. And not just on your Mac, but on the IMAP server it connects to.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...
search in outlook is abysmal and it is part of microsoft’s core business… :)
well, I think the expectations from Apple's product on a much higher level, which makes the situation with search even more embarrassing.
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whataboutism won't save Apple when Gmail search has been great since forever
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It’s pretty hard for a company to do something outside their core competency.
Remember when Google launched a social network?
Remember when Facebook made a phone?
Remember when intel tried to make mobile chips?
Apple is the best in the world at making expensive computers in various sizes. From pocket size to desktop. And some peripherals. That’s their core competency. AI is not on the list.
FWIW I don't think that Google+ was a technological failure. On the contrary, it was quite a bit better than Facebook at being, well, social. The problem is that it doesn't matter if all people you actually want/need to talk to are already somewhere else. You can't really peel users off one by one, because each of them has their social graph locking them in.
Perhaps you're wrong, perhaps you're right, but it's the "Apple makes rare stumble" journo trope/narrative I was questioning tbf, not Apple themselves.
Not a great example with Google though, they made gmail and android which are both outside of their core competency of search.
There isn’t anything special about gmail. It’s just less shit hotmail.
And google bought android.
Also I’d say google’s core competency is ‘organising information nicely’
Or how Siri obnoxiousness and denseness ruined HomeKit.
Or how Watch has the full power of all my location info, my driving status, my motion, all opted in, but can't figure out squat.
My watch thinks last week I did a 23 mile hike in 1 hour, 20 miles of it accomplished while in do-not-disturb-while-driving mode.
Fall detection? Nope. False negative, verified enabled and does not work.
Autocorrect… it's actually gotten worse.
I don't know if the Vision Pro counts as a stumble. If they were planning to make a mass-market product, they wouldn't have priced it so high. Apple doesn't reveal sales targets, but I bet they sold about as many Vision Pros as they expected to.
Everyone one said the same when apple introduced the iPhone. It was expensive and it didn’t have a keyboard. Clearly made for a small niche market.
Everyone has the odd flop. The laptops are good.