Comment by ares623
4 days ago
My head canon is that the thing that preemptively pops the bubble is Apple coming out and saying, very publicly, that AI is a dead end, and they are dropping it completely (no more half assed implicit promises).
And not just that, they come out with an iPhone that has _no_ camera as an attempt to really distance themselves from all the negative press tech (software and internet in particular) has at the moment.
Do you know a single person who'd buy an iPhone without a camera? I don't
That's what they used to say about mobile phones with no keyboards :))
Keyboards were replaced with a touch screen alternative that effectively does the same job though. What is the alternative to a camera? Cameras are way too useful on a mobile device for anyone to even consider dropping them IMO.
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Maybe not as an iphone, but they could drop the camera and cellular and make an ipod touch.
That would require people that know about AI to actually choose to cancel it - which nobody that actually knows what AI can do, would ever actually do.
The Apple engineers, with their top level unfettered access to the best Apple AI - they'll convince shareholders to fund it forever, even if normal people never catch on.
Apple at AI is a dead end because Apple sucks at AI, not because its anything about AI