Re:Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intell...
by atonse on Monday December 16, 2024 @10:58AM
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Totally agree with you and you didn’t even count their insanely great M chips that even have the interest of people running Linux and servers.
Those chips are leading the industry in performance per watt and other metrics, and are fascinating as chips, not just Apple or ARM chips. Their laptops were “fixed” and many, including myself think they’re the best laptops we’ve ever owned.
I feel the butterfly keyboard laptop era was when they were lost in the woods. But now they killing it. Even Apple Maps is great.
I get it, and odds are one day it will be true so no harm trotting it out decade after decade, but I don’t think that time is now.
- Watch and AirPods have both been incredible successful and were pure Cook-era Apple. Both were first envisioned after Jobs died.
- Car was a failure, but it seems odd to criticize Cook for being a mere optimizer when he enthusiastically spent billions on the project. Which is it? No vision, or too-ambitious vision?
- Agree that AVP has been disappointing. But again, so what? It’s similar to the Newton. Not every product will succeed. And again it’s hard to see AVP as a “McDonalds” effort.
I don’t know what it is about Apple that attracts these “they are doomed if every product isn’t as revolutionary as the iPhone” takes. Who else is having world-changing home runs with every product?