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Yes, and we usually don't start comparing them to the market leader before they've even said what they're going to make. A lot of companies have hired ex-Apple
by al_borland 2mo ago
Yes, and we usually don't start comparing them to the market leader before they've even said what they're going to make. A lot of companies have hired ex-Apple engineers, have tried to emulate Apple's designs, and have tried to capture whatever it is Apple captured to get where they are... so far none of it has really worked. Why we'd assume OpenAI will be any different, when they haven't even showed anything to the public yet, is beyond me.
They hired Jony Ive... but so did Ferrari, and people seem to hate that design. So he alone clearly isn't the key.
- bigyabai 2mo agoIs Apple a market leader, in terms of AI? OpenAI still has plenty of places they can one-up Apple, the iPhone is not any more inevitable than the Nokia or the Blackberry was as a form factor.
- al_borland 2mo agoApple is a market leader in hardware, that’s why the article is using them as the company to beat. The thing is, Apple doesn’t have to have the best in-house AI when all the apps from all the various players can run on their devices. We’ll have to see how the new Siri with Gemini goes this fall, but even with Siri still being behind, an iPhone user can use whatever AI they want. Apple desktops also seem to be the go-to for a ton of people looking to run things like Claude Code or local models. So from a hardware perspective, OpenAI would have to come up with something so novel that it was worth not just being an app on an existing device. What can AI enable, that is worth being its own device, that consumers will actually buy and use? That’s the question OpenAI has to answer and they’ve yet to show what they think the answer is. It’s a very hard question and I don’t think ChatGPT is capable of providing an answer for them.