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How do you make yourself future proof from Apple? Apple can just making Siri smarter and add integrations with tons of other softwares, apps, and hardwares?

kjkjadksj 2y ago
Age old question with no good answer, as cribbing from the community is how apple brainstorms their new products. https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/60-ios-features-apple-stole-from-jailbreakers-0188093/ https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/60-ios-features-apple-sto...
- chaostheory 2y ago
  Good point. Apple’s strength and weakness is that there is only one Apple way to do things for ease of use and for it to “just work”. However, not everyone fits into their cookie cutter design regardless of how good it is. Customization and options beyond what Apple does tends to be the way to go.
- threeseed 2y ago
  The idea that the community invented a control panel, notifications, coloured icons, the ability to turn cellular, delete previous calls etc is pretty laughable.
  - kjkjadksj 2y ago
    Not saying they invented them. Indeed many of these were initially cribbed from android perhaps. But still, curious indeed how many of them go from popularly installed jailbreak tweak right into a very similar looking and functioning iOS feature a few updates later.
fragmede 2y ago
aka getting Sherlocked
- spiderice 2y ago
  Apple has almost certainly been working on LLM Siri since before this company existed. Not sure that counts as Sherlocking.
dom96 2y ago
Isn't this the first thing YC would ask? How did this get funded by YC?
- bko 2y ago
  I read somewhere that 100% of YC winter 2023 branch had an AI angle which was really sad to read. You have the most well respected and exclusive VC and its investing in mostly companies that are thin wrappers and integrations around an LLM they don't own.
  - user_7832 2y ago
    Your mistake was assuming YC cares about "true" value and not (a chance of) monetary success. YC may look all nice and have a decent PR team (and some/many people may genuinely be nice folks) but they're just a business at the end of the day.
- swyx 2y ago
  > We started building Martin exactly 1 year ago, during our YC batch. they pivoted mid yc it sounds like. yc chooses founders not ideas.
blueboo 2y ago
The TiVo problem https://a16z.com/distribution-vs-innovation/ https://a16z.com/distribution-vs-innovation/

kjkjadksj 2y ago

Age old question with no good answer, as cribbing from the community is how apple brainstorms their new products. https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/60-ios-features-apple-stole-from-jailbreakers-0188093/ https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/60-ios-features-apple-sto...

chaostheory 2y ago
Good point. Apple’s strength and weakness is that there is only one Apple way to do things for ease of use and for it to “just work”. However, not everyone fits into their cookie cutter design regardless of how good it is. Customization and options beyond what Apple does tends to be the way to go.
threeseed 2y ago
The idea that the community invented a control panel, notifications, coloured icons, the ability to turn cellular, delete previous calls etc is pretty laughable.
- kjkjadksj 2y ago
  Not saying they invented them. Indeed many of these were initially cribbed from android perhaps. But still, curious indeed how many of them go from popularly installed jailbreak tweak right into a very similar looking and functioning iOS feature a few updates later.

fragmede 2y ago

aka getting Sherlocked

spiderice 2y ago
Apple has almost certainly been working on LLM Siri since before this company existed. Not sure that counts as Sherlocking.

dom96 2y ago

Isn't this the first thing YC would ask? How did this get funded by YC?

bko 2y ago
I read somewhere that 100% of YC winter 2023 branch had an AI angle which was really sad to read. You have the most well respected and exclusive VC and its investing in mostly companies that are thin wrappers and integrations around an LLM they don't own.
- user_7832 2y ago
  Your mistake was assuming YC cares about "true" value and not (a chance of) monetary success. YC may look all nice and have a decent PR team (and some/many people may genuinely be nice folks) but they're just a business at the end of the day.
swyx 2y ago
> We started building Martin exactly 1 year ago, during our YC batch. they pivoted mid yc it sounds like. yc chooses founders not ideas.

blueboo 2y ago

The TiVo problem https://a16z.com/distribution-vs-innovation/ https://a16z.com/distribution-vs-innovation/