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The iPhone's Last Stand?

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Post by librasteve »

graemep wrote: post #63
cultofmetatron wrote: post #11

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> What a callous view of people. Who's your benchmark? TikTok addicted kids? brother, we are all walking around with a supercomputer in our pocket thats capable of accessing the sum total of human knowledge and yet we're still stuck with people who think the earth is flat.

> yet we're still stuck with people who think the earth is flat. Very few. They are louder online. I have never met one in real life. Yes, the internet does spread misinformation, but I think its pessimistic to think it outweighs the benefits. A lot of the problems are economic and social at the core too.

but, the earth is flatter than it looks … since, according to GR, spacetime is convex around it gravity well

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Post by grvdrm »

alsetmusic wrote: post #61

I've valued Ben Thompson's opinions less over time. He was super into goggle-like devices and remote meetings. I own Apple Vision Pro. It's a technical achievement, but not compelling beyond immersive video (too bad). He harps on Dems trying to clean up monopolies (Lina Khan during Biden, who had good principles but didn't get much done; probably blame her boss) and is quiet through republican bullshit (T2). He seems…

I recently canceled my Stratechery Plus subscription. Don’t miss it to be honest - once a week free is plenty.

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Post by alnwlsn »

mcculley wrote: post #53
cultofmetatron wrote: post #11

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> What a callous view of people. Who's your benchmark? TikTok addicted kids? brother, we are all walking around with a supercomputer in our pocket thats capable of accessing the sum total of human knowledge and yet we're still stuck with people who think the earth is flat.

> capable of accessing the sum total of human knowledge No. Lots of knowledge is still behind paywalls or not yet digitized. Some models have been trained on books that we cannot search or download.

Plenty has already been lost due to being buried in search, removed for lack of interest, or simplified so far as to be too generalized.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

wett wrote: post #58
thunky wrote: post #47

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> brother, Why am seeing "brother" a lot recently?

It’s kind of a meme https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/my_brother_in_Christ

Kind of, but younger generation will prefix every sentence with "bro" so you can kind of see a generational difference.

But also, Warhammer 40K is popular.

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Post by wongarsu »

wiseowise wrote: post #2

iPhone's last stand? More like Microsoft's last stand. Nobody wants their garbage hardware and software outside of enterprise shmucks more interested in filling their pockets with fat contract money than delivering value. > The reason is obvious when you think about it: enterprises are paying for their employees’ time, so of course they are willing to pay for tools that make those employees more productive Is that wh…

If enterprises were really focused on saving employee's time, Jira wouldn't sell. At least not the bog slow SaaS version

Saving time (==saving money) is something you can sell to companies. But above all, they are willing to spend on saving their managers time. The higher up the hierarchy, the better. If that involves wasting a lot more time for the underlings, then so be it. The underlings aren't the ones making the purchasing decisions after all

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Post by whizzter »

jorisw wrote: post #26
Gigachad wrote: post #14

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At least for consumer software, AI is synonymous with annoying nagware forcing itself in your way.

I think you're trying to say, the term 'AI' is _associated_ with chatbots being added in places (websites mostly) where they are more of a nuisance than added value. OpenAI's ChatGPT is AI consumer software and is a hit, albeit mostly free tier users.

And that's the thing, 90% of people's interactions with "AI" is negatives in places it didn't belong, Klarna had to roll back "AI" customer service, useless chatbots everywhere "because AI", copilot this and that and so on.

And yes, ChatGPT is a hit but who will subsidize the hardware for freeloaders, Google's (cheap to run) AI is good enough now that I don't need to move over to ChatGPT for simple answers, thus the Google moat will probably remain intact denying OpenAI the search revenue stream all whilst OpenAI proposals/trials to add ADs were met with annoyance.

AI where useful is becoming a commodity, Apple did the correct thing in waiting and using the commodity parts and we're otherwise also quickly heading to the bubble's pop, HN even censoring articles on the topic sure seems to be an indicator that those in power are afraid.

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Post by deltarholamda »

After the blowout success of the Macbook Neo, I'd think the bet would be on a cheap iPhone. Maybe not, as so many people finance their expensive phone through their carrier, but I suspect a $300 iPhone would eat the mid-range Android market.

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Post by cmxch »

al_borland wrote: post #45

Having watched Microsoft try and fail to launch countless new ideas into the market over the past couple decades, I have 0 faith in their ability to deliver something people actually use. Others, often Apple, seem to succeed where Microsoft had previously tried and repeatedly failed.

At least with Microsoft it’s more likely to not be a walled garden.

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Post by analogpixel »

Who is paying for all of this AI usage on the Iphone? I didn't see anything about a new AI subscription (maybe I missed it?), and I doubt Apple will want to pay million/billions a year to do it indefinitely.
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