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What the heck is going on at Apple?

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148 points methuselah_in | 3 comments | 07 Dec 25 16:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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skeeter2020 ◴[08 Dec 25 02:17 UTC] No.46187567[source]▶
3 retirements and a VP taking an obvious promotion at Meta: not really the "sky is falling" event they try to paint. Tim Cook stepping down would (if it even happens) be a big deal, but he's not the heart of the company. He's been an extremely compentent accountant; enjoy your retirement party and gold watch. And to suggest they are falling behind because they're not investing hundreds of billions in an AI "strategy" that shows no pay-off - while the other tech companies start to scale back their capital investments? I've never been a huge Apple fan as a company but their current situation makes me more bullish than ever.
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NBJack ◴[08 Dec 25 03:43 UTC] No.46188046[source]▶
Perhaps the sky already fell a while back?

I don't really mind that they aren't on the LLM bandwagon, but Siri seems to have stagnated. The big "Apple Intelligence" capabilities of the iPhone 16 haven't exactly landed. The Vision Pro seems to be on at least a partial depreciation path.

The only real innovation I've seen in the last decade has been the M line of chips. Mind you, these are undeniably really good; but even that hasn't changed the market share that much (though it is going up and trending well).

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keyle ◴[08 Dec 25 04:09 UTC] No.46188191[source]▶
Personally I prefer a useless Siri that I can turn off, rather than a copilot into everything I cannot turn off.

I am perfectly fine with Apple lagging behind in "AI".

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aydyn ◴[08 Dec 25 04:25 UTC] No.46188282[source]▶
Wouldnt you prefer a competent Siri that you can turn off?

Gemini on android just works. I can ask it nearly anything in spoken natural language and it'll talk back with an answer.

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1. bigstrat2003 ◴[08 Dec 25 05:20 UTC] No.46188666[source]▶
> Gemini on android just works.

Unless you want to turn it off, which I haven't been able to figure out how to do. Every now and then my phone will randomly prompt me to "ask Gemini", which is really annoying. When I want to use the LLM, I will go to it, stop shoving it in my face over and over.

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2. nutjob2 ◴[08 Dec 25 14:51 UTC] No.46192855[source]▶
Just turn off Google Assistant stuff. It's always been annoying and useless to me and I've always turned it off.
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3. couscouspie ◴[08 Dec 25 23:07 UTC] No.46198933[source]▶
I can't turn it off on my Samsung Galaxy S23 which I originally bought, because it was not marketed with AI. The patched it in later and ever since it just randomly starts as if it was listening all the time.