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Definitely not seeing the horrendous collapse of the once mighty Apple. That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI, and recent product releases/

Definitely not seeing the horrendous collapse of the once mighty Apple. That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI, and recent product releases/updates have been, uh, suboptimal. Latest Logic Pro is a disaster (e.g. unstable/crashing, removed key shortcuts killing productivity) and don't get me started on the dumbing-down of iOS. They are for sure headed in the wrong direction, but they are just too big to fall overnight.

bhouston 1y ago
> That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI I am reminding when Android phablets were really cutting into the marketshare of Apple a decade ago. Apple was reluctant to release larger phones for a couple years and it was an opening. But then all of a sudden Apple did release larger phones and the capabilities gap disappeared and then Apple's phone quality + CPU speeds + surrounding ecosystem of devices made the Android competitors pretty irrelevant.
msgodel 1y ago
The problem will come when LLM driven assistants become more popular. There's no way to have a nice one on iOS without Apple giving up more control than they're willing to.
- ethbr1 1y ago
  Also, the lost time iterating. Apple should remember from its Maps debacle that it's difficult to make up years of product tuning overnight, no matter how talented a team you have. Time >> talent Because everyone has talent within the same order of magnitude, but no one has invented a time machine.
- freedomben 1y ago
  Apple will make an exception if it's in their own interest. They also have enough money to just buy out a company and airlift them in. If there's one company that could stumble around for 20 years and still have enough money to continue without much worry, it's them.
  - dzhiurgis 1y ago
    That would just give up biggest opportunity in their lifetime. Only regulation could solve this (i.e. force all dominant OS's to allow running any AI agent).

bhouston 1y ago

> That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI I am reminding when Android phablets were really cutting into the marketshare of Apple a decade ago. Apple was reluctant to release larger phones for a couple years and it was an opening. But then all of a sudden Apple did release larger phones and the capabilities gap disappeared and then Apple's phone quality + CPU speeds + surrounding ecosystem of devices made the Android competitors pretty irrelevant.

msgodel 1y ago

The problem will come when LLM driven assistants become more popular. There's no way to have a nice one on iOS without Apple giving up more control than they're willing to.

ethbr1 1y ago
Also, the lost time iterating. Apple should remember from its Maps debacle that it's difficult to make up years of product tuning overnight, no matter how talented a team you have. Time >> talent Because everyone has talent within the same order of magnitude, but no one has invented a time machine.
freedomben 1y ago
Apple will make an exception if it's in their own interest. They also have enough money to just buy out a company and airlift them in. If there's one company that could stumble around for 20 years and still have enough money to continue without much worry, it's them.
- dzhiurgis 1y ago
  That would just give up biggest opportunity in their lifetime. Only regulation could solve this (i.e. force all dominant OS's to allow running any AI agent).