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Its the exact opposite. They are the first to do a lot of things, and in terms of product design they do a good job, which establishes them solely in the marke
by ActorNightly 3y ago
Its the exact opposite.
They are the first to do a lot of things, and in terms of product design they do a good job, which establishes them solely in the market space even though first iterations of products are generally subpar overall and riding on one feature that makes it stand out. Then when competition catches up, they already have an established user base that is "locked in" to Apple products through their walled garden.
The reason why they don't have any AI stuff is because AI is purely software, and Apple doesn't do software that well because any software it releases had to be wrapped by that walled garden to secure the user base.
- minimaxir 3y agoAI is both software and hardware, which is why they spend a few refresh cycles improving the Apple Silicon Neural Engine, and are now releasing MLX since there is better adoption.
- ActorNightly 3y agoThe thing is, parallel processing (i.e same instruction on multiple data pieces) is easy to implement for the most part in hardware. The issue is nobody wants to write low level software for a particular chip. Cuda is why NVIDIA is ahead despite AMD having comparable hardware. If you look at what its like to develop for MacOS or iPhone, its pretty clear that apple doesnt do this well. Even for their neural engine, I think you have to do some sort of entitlement thing to get code to run.
- ambichook 3y agoi don't think apple has been first to do something since, like, the iphone. their business model is definitely rock up a little later than the others and combine both good quality and a giant marketing machine to whatever maket they enter, the days of apple doing firsts is over i believe
- throwaway11460 3y agoYou mean like being the last to build a custom world class desktop/laptop/phone CPU for their computers and phones? Or like being the last to produce actually usable VR headset?
- ambichook 3y agoyou think the vision pro is the first VR headset? it doesnt even have the most specs or features of current headsets, its just apple so you know about it. as for the CPU, uhh, its a particularly good ARM chip? its definitely not the first, it just does a very good job
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- throwaway11460 3y agoWhat other actually usable VR headset exists?
- smoldesu 3y agoThe Quest, as an example that isn't tethered to a battery.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoEven the iphone was'nt the first of it's kind. There was blackberry, Window Mobile, Symbian-Phones. Heck, not even Smartphone as a term was coined for the iphone. Apple was just the one who created a pleasant experience without compromising for price or history.