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"Apple made a rare stumble" Auto. Vision Pro. AI. Is there a pattern emerging here?
by 4ndrewl 2y ago
"Apple made a rare stumble"
Auto.
Vision Pro.
AI.
Is there a pattern emerging here?
- reliabilityguy 2y agoNo 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.
- bdangubic 2y agosearch in outlook is abysmal and it is part of microsoft’s core business… :)
- reliabilityguy 2y agowell, I think the expectations from Apple's product on a much higher level, which makes the situation with search even more embarrassing.
- bdangubic 2y agohow interesting… I expect the opposite, just like maps, search is just not apple’s “thing” and I don’t expect much at all
- hu3 2y agowhataboutism won't save Apple when Gmail search has been great since forever
- dreamcompiler 2y agoDon'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-10-15/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...
- LeoPanthera 2y agoI 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.
- henry2023 2y agoEveryone 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.
- jonplackett 2y agoIt’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.
- calmoo 2y agoNot a great example with Google though, they made gmail and android which are both outside of their core competency of search.
- jonplackett 2y agoThere 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’
- 4ndrewl 2y agoPerhaps 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.
- int_19h 2y agoFWIW 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.
- natch 2y agoOr 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.
- tim333 2y agoEveryone has the odd flop. The laptops are good.