Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by matwood on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:00PM
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I don't think we are at the end of anything, much less Apple. AI looks like the next big thing, and Apple needs to be careful not to miss it. Siri is just is not as good as what Google and Alexa are doing, and Apple appears doing nothing to satisfy the home demand. If they somehow completely miss the home AI front then I might get onboard the Apple is dying train. There is still time right now though.
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Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by maverick_iceman on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:08PM
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They kinda shot themselves in the foot with their positioning on privacy. You can't get good at AI assistants without huge amount of training data.
Re:Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales
by matwood on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:15PM
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The privacy thing is part of it, but Apples AI problem is deeper than that. Google and Amazon both have huge supplementary personalized datasets to pull from. Normal interactions with Apple just do not give away as much personal information, even if their privacy policy did not exist.