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On talent to maintain quality with Macs & OS X, instead of only having all top notch human capital into iOS.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/02/apple-reports-its-holiday...
I think it would make more sense to make iOS devices that could replace the need for a Mac.
Mac OSX is outdated and buggy. Apple does not put much effort into fixing it. It's past time to create Mac OSXI. They need to hire more software engineers if they can't do better than what they have now.
They just need to fix bugs. Rewriting from scratch is seldom a successful strategy.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
If I were Tim Cook, I'd carefully consider the following problems: 1.) The input problem. Phones/tablets are great, but they can only do so much when our fingertips are still the best input device available. In the future, this will likely mean some kind of neural interface. But in the present, can we fill in the gaps with something better than Siri? 2.) The health problem. Our phones have the potential to become a w…
> though I do have fear of how the masses would respond to an Apple sponsored basic income program. What do you have in mind here? I have a hard time believing people would be upset if you offer them "free" money.
Edit - I should note that I highly doubt recipients would be anything but grateful. My concerns lie with an often very vocal minority who do occasionally create massive PR problems.
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> though I do have fear of how the masses would respond to an Apple sponsored basic income program. What do you have in mind here? I have a hard time believing people would be upset if you offer them "free" money.
I have visions of problems coming from both ends of the political spectrum. I can almost hear a far right commentator talk about how giving out free money is an insult to paying customers who work hard for their money and got ahead by their own mettle. At the other end of the spectrum, I can almost hear a far left commentator talk about how this is the same old crony capitalism, dressing up marketing in generosity's…
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 f…
I think Apple could build hardware just as good as NVidia or AMD. Apple has a software and services deficiency.
Maybe with the return of the mac pro, etc, we'll see Apple focus on pure computing power in a new, unseen, way and I'll be wrong they need acquire... But short of something absolutely herculean ($100bn investment), I don't see them coming out on top.
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I think Apple could build hardware just as good as NVidia or AMD. Apple has a software and services deficiency.
I politely disagree, Intel can't even build GPUs as powerful as NVidia (or AMD) and all of it's offerings so far have been very sub-par in terms of massively parallel computing. They have an insane amount of knowledge on fabricating chips, researchers, and money (though Apple does too). At least, I feel that if Intel can't compete with NVidia and AMD in the GPU space neither can Apple. Maybe with the return of the ma…
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?
The new Apple is all about making good enough product and making money.
It smells a little Microsoft to me already.
ARM64 servers. This one is quite a low hanging fruit. Apple has the most advanced ARMv8 based core, one that can rival Intel. And the market is enormous, larger by far than iPad, or Mac. Of course Apple being Apple they would ship entire boxes, and not just the CPUs.
Why not just sell kube instances? Most folk don't wat to own datacenters and there's a better markup.
I would invest in improving Topsy.com /s