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Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

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Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

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Post by rubyn00bie »

Buy Nvidia or AMD.

The race to AI will be won by hardware. Apple right now will lose to Google and Amazon without some serious help and market advantage. Sure google can build a fab or rent one out, but the army of engineers employed at either and the scores of patents would put Apple miles ahead.

It’d also give them a the back door they need into the enterprise market. Sort of how they won the consumer market back from Microsoft with the move to mobile. They’d have an AI hardware platform available for enterprise... A-nX ARM chips and insanely good graphics cards powering servers. see ya later, Intel...

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

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Post by godzillabrennus »

Lots of big dreams here on what they could aspire to do.

The company is dangerously close to scaring off their customers because of poor software quality.

I’d set aside some money for QA...

Software quality at Apple needs a lot of help.

Every single product is suffering as a result.

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

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Post by ethagknight »

spacesarebetter wrote: post #29

The least he can do is hire a small team and rewrite iTunes. It's such a PITA, and there is no web client. Tried Apple music 3 times only to return to Spotify.

While agree with the sentiment and have done the same jump back and forth and sticking with Spotify, Spotify is losing money with a superior product.. so who is really winning?

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

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Post by zerb »

jnbiche wrote: post #27
zerb wrote: post #9

Do something crazy. Completely embrace FOSS. Do something conservative. Invest heavily in battery research. Make hardware the focus, make it incredible. Support software with money and project governance, but let the ties to the hardware go. Win purely on incredible hardware.

But software is clearly where Apple is suffering the most. They're still doing OK in hardware (perhaps because most of it is not in-house).

Which is why I think they should open the platform. Don't start from scratch, but relicense the OS to be compatible with FOSS and, say, make iTerm the default terminal.

Re: Ask HN: What would you invest in if you were the CEO of Apple?

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Post by beefman »

beefman wrote: post #8

Even though Apple is all about focus, I would integrate a little more data by buying Yelp and TomTom. Yelp for a time was pretty toxic but I think they're clean enough now.

I would also lavish attention on Apple Pay. Perhaps a logo program? I frequently ask, and hear others ask, "Do you take Apple Pay?" Having to ask burns a lot of the benefit. Then it often works inconsistently. At Whole Foods I sometimes still have to sign (negating benefit). At my local Safeway, payment will fail if you've also scanned your loyalty card.

On that note, perhaps loyalty programs could be integrated. Wallet supports rewards cards but it appears to be an extra step at checkout.

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