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It’s far deeper than that and been Cooking for a long time before the AI boom, it was just less obvious because there wasn’t anyone to measure it against. But t

It’s far deeper than that and been Cooking for a long time before the AI boom, it was just less obvious because there wasn’t anyone to measure it against. But the cracks were visible and the direction obvious even 5 years ago

lotsofpulp 1y ago
Almost 5 years ago, Apple introduced a laptop that blew everyone away.
- walthamstow 1y ago
  Blew everyone in tech away, myself included. Nobody else noticed. From what I can gather they sold a few million units of the M1 Air. It's not a very big market.
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  - mcphage 1y ago
    Fair enough, but it was still enough of a technical marvel that to say Apple 5 years ago was already broken, was silly.
- Ylpertnodi 1y ago
  Include me out, please.
- whywhywhywhy 1y ago
  Yeah after the 5 years where their main laptop model had a keyboard that became unresponsive within weeks, had a charger and power system that couldn’t even cold boot the machine it needed to sit there and pre-charge before it could boot itself, ran hot, ran slow, ran noisy. I know we all love the post-M1 MacBooks but it’s increasingly obvious that machine is the exception to the decline of everything else including the laptop line until M1 redesign saved it.
  - lotsofpulp 1y ago
    While they definitely had or have organizational problems (which organization does not?), it seems quite hyperbolic to state >decline of everything else They were still pumping out very usable AirPods/Apple TV/Watch/Phone/Macbook Airs/Air Tags. Siri sucks (always has), and they have had some big misses, but the stuff that 90% of the population uses 90% of the time chugs along perfectly fine.
bhouston 1y ago
No one comes close to Apple's ecosystem of hardware. It is amazing and it isn't a simple matter for another company to approach it in the near term.
taco_emoji 1y ago
> Cooking I see what you did there...

lotsofpulp 1y ago

Almost 5 years ago, Apple introduced a laptop that blew everyone away.

walthamstow 1y ago
Blew everyone in tech away, myself included. Nobody else noticed. From what I can gather they sold a few million units of the M1 Air. It's not a very big market.
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  [deleted]
- mcphage 1y ago
  Fair enough, but it was still enough of a technical marvel that to say Apple 5 years ago was already broken, was silly.
Ylpertnodi 1y ago
Include me out, please.
whywhywhywhy 1y ago
Yeah after the 5 years where their main laptop model had a keyboard that became unresponsive within weeks, had a charger and power system that couldn’t even cold boot the machine it needed to sit there and pre-charge before it could boot itself, ran hot, ran slow, ran noisy. I know we all love the post-M1 MacBooks but it’s increasingly obvious that machine is the exception to the decline of everything else including the laptop line until M1 redesign saved it.
- lotsofpulp 1y ago
  While they definitely had or have organizational problems (which organization does not?), it seems quite hyperbolic to state >decline of everything else They were still pumping out very usable AirPods/Apple TV/Watch/Phone/Macbook Airs/Air Tags. Siri sucks (always has), and they have had some big misses, but the stuff that 90% of the population uses 90% of the time chugs along perfectly fine.

bhouston 1y ago

No one comes close to Apple's ecosystem of hardware. It is amazing and it isn't a simple matter for another company to approach it in the near term.

taco_emoji 1y ago

> Cooking I see what you did there...