Comment by neya
3 days ago
That's just BS cope. They tried and miserably failed - and still are failing badly. Remember, they were the ones to push for AI with "Siri". Many firings later and 2 CEOs later we are still exactly in square one. The fucking thing can't even get who I want to call, let alone set an alarm without touching my phone FFS.
What is there to cope about? Apple is the last vertical computer company left from the 1980s. Apple Silicon just gets better every year. They have also managed to replace several companies that well gave them problems over the years or said no to doing anything that involved moving into the future. i.e, Motorola of Schaumburg, Illinois, IBM and Intel one company’s out of business. and the other two are trying to hang on to past glories.
By the way, the new Apple folding phone appears to be a hit. a real hit the last test left is whether or not it is as good as it appeared to have been in the demonstrations. only time will tell when it gets into the hands of the general public.
Lets not overlook the fact that Apple is only around due to sheer luck with NeXT reverse acquisition, and having Steve Jobs back on the steering wheel.
Nowadays they are basically the iDevices company, if macOS wasn't required for XCode, the worldwide sales would be much less.
None of what you said is relevant to my comment about Apple's failed AI strategy nor Siri.
I have no interest in Siri or always-on AI assistants. I turn as much of that off as I can.
I do have an interest in local, private inference though and I am willing to pay for that.
Apple segmenting the market is actually a good strategy. Horses for courses, as they say.
> local, private inference
Yeah, sure, inside a closed-source OS communicating constantly to private servers on the internet. Sounds very private to me.