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It’s a mistake to generalize from the HN population. Most people don’t care about privacy (see: success of Facebook and TikTok). Most people don’t care about
by brookst 1y ago
It’s a mistake to generalize from the HN population.
Most people don’t care about privacy (see: success of Facebook and TikTok). Most people don’t care about subscriptions (see: cable TV, Netflix).
There may be a niche market for a local inference device that costs $1000 and has to be replaced every year or two during the early days of AI, but it’s not a market with decent ROI for Apple.
- j45 1y agoAn iPhone, Macbook, etc all cost in the $1000 range. There was a post about the new iphone using A19, which includes a feature that makes local inference much easier. If that makes it to M5, I think the local inference case continues to grow with each M processor.