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> whose alluring designs of the iMac, iPod, and iPhone helped turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies in the world "Helped" is doing a lot of heavy
by joshstrange 1y ago
> whose alluring designs of the iMac, iPod, and iPhone helped turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies in the world
"Helped" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. I'm still not sure if those these things did well because of Jony or due to Steve. What we saw from Jony after Steve (few ports, butterfly keyboard, thinness at the expense of everything else) makes me think that without a good editor (of which Altman may or may not be) Jony isn't able to create greatness on his own. I also find Jony's ventures post-Apple to be laughable and not interesting in the slightest.
> “The concept is that you should have a friend who’s a computer who isn’t your weird AI girlfriend... like [Apple’s digital voice assistant] Siri but better,”
Uh, ok, that sentence took a weird turn. I'm not sure if anyone has ever called Siri a "weird AI girlfriend", I've never seen it marketed that way or people using it that way. Now, the OpenAI API, on the other hand, has clearly helped enable whole slews of AI Girl/boyfriends. Odd dig to throw at Apple here.
I'm sure whatever they unveil will be interesting, just not clear if it will have the same fate as R1/Humane/Friend. Personally, I hope they fail based on the video they released when OpenAI first bought "io", cringe does not begin to describe it.
- intothemild 1y agoI really don't get the cult of Jony. As you touched upon, without Steve, the design decisions were baffling.
- alwahi 1y agobut have you considered the trashcan mac?
- turtlebits 1y agoIf not the designer and/or CEO, who are you going to give credit to?
- joshstrange 1y agoI do give credit to Steve Jobs. I was saying that what Jony has done on his own is less impressive IMHO. If they manage to pull this off (OpenAI/io) then I will, begrudgingly, have to give credit to Altman, despite not being a huge fan of him (then again, Jobs wasn't a "good guy" in many aspect of his life either). My point being, Jony needs an editor, when he was unchecked at Apple (or his own design company "Love From") I found that much of his output came across as an exercise in smelling one’s own farts.
- saurik 1y agoI read that sentence as saying that Siri is an example of something that ISN'T a "weird AI girlfriend": that what they want is Siri but better, as opposed to something that isn't even named in that sentence (but likely is trying to be a dig at Grok, but is failing to do so as, as you say, people consider ChatGPT's own products to have a bit of this issue).
- joshstrange 1y agoAhh, that is almost certainly what they meant, I just parsed it wrong. Thank you!
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