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Ternus is the leading candidate; VP of Hardware Engineering. He was very likely more directly responsible than Cook for all the things you liked about Cook's Ap
by 827a 11mo ago
Ternus is the leading candidate; VP of Hardware Engineering. He was very likely more directly responsible than Cook for all the things you liked about Cook's Apple.
My fear for Apple right now is how most decisions they make appear to incentivize them toward becoming a perpetual middle-man in all aspects of your interactions with their products. They don't manufacture much of anything anymore; its on-contract. They design the M-Series chips, but don't make them. Their software sucks; they'd rather just take 30% of your interaction with actually-good software. Their AI and search sucks; they just pay Google $30B a year for theirs. Etc and etc.
- nadermx 11mo agoWhat incentive do they have otherwise?
- rhubarbtree 11mo agoWait, Apple Pay Google for search?
- gsharma 11mo agoNo, it’s the other way around. Comment above is confused about the relationship.
- SauntSolaire 11mo agoHe's referring to the AI part of his sentence.
- bobbylarrybobby 11mo agoReports say that Apple will be paying Google a billion a year for a Gemini‘d Siri
- 827a 11mo agoNo, but Apple is likely to be paying Google for access to Gemini in the upcoming Siri revamp, and relies on Google's technology for the default safari search experience, which is what I was referencing.
- knollimar 11mo agoI thought they're buying a custom model they can run (likely for privacy reasons)
- alberth 11mo agoTernus team didn’t create M-series. Johny Srouji team did instead. https://www.apple.com/leadership/johny-srouji/ https://www.apple.com/leadership/johny-srouji/ https://www.apple.com/leadership/john-ternus/ https://www.apple.com/leadership/john-ternus/
- wslh 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johny_Srouji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johny_Srouji
- Mistletoe 11mo agoTheir Siri sucks so they just borrowed Google Gemini.
- ianburrell 11mo agoVery few tech companies make the whole stack. Making chips requires specialization and is required for high end chips. Samsung is probably the only company that makes chips for their own phones.