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1.5 billion active users worldwide and the most affluent user base is not “that many”?
Think a little about the meaning of the phrase "Apple doesn't have that many customers, but has a lot of followers".
Apple is now a lifestyle brand with a supply chain.
There are a few hiccups, but everyone'e acting like Apple Silicon wasn't one of the most wildly successful overnight improvements in laptops in the last 50 years and that airpods aren't so popular that even Android phone users buy them.
Apple Silicon was only an improvement in battery life. AMD and Intel still made more powerful processors coupled with Nvidia and AMD GPUs that blew Apple Silicon out of the water. Also depends what you consider successful since Macbooks are still a small fraction of the laptop market. Airpods being dominant is something from many years ago. Sony, Bose, even Samsung caught up quickly and offer much better integration…
For a company selling huge quantities of mobile computing devices, that's paramount.
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Oh great, where can I buy a non-Mac with the same performance, battery life, thermals, weight, premium materials, and a trackpad that doesn’t feel like styrofoam coated in oil? Since you say the competition has caught up, I assume it’ll be easy to send an Amazon link to the evidence.
Not OP but that's the thing right, you've talked a lot about feels which means there will never be an answer that overcomes the emotion built in your head. I wonder what it would take to win you over, and i don't mean the rational you, which i'm sure you can justify, i mean the irrational 'i'm in love with the product' you.
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Cook isn’t a visionary, he is an ops & logistics guy. He has a major problem with failing at AI and lying last year about “Apple Intelligence”. He needs some fresh blood in software as well. He should just buy something like Claude and lock them in with stock and very high salaries. He should also stop scrimping on integrated memory on the M series. Overpriced memory is a huge issue. And do something about the GPU as…
Buying competency and hoping for the best sounds exactly what an economist would do. They will probably leave as soon as their manager becomes just the run of the mill babysitter manager with charisma.
Now Meta is doing it again for AI.
Apple won't throw money down a hole like that, but they definitely need a more original and opinionated strategy than just an increased talent count.
The lack of love they gave Siri and AI in general, since they bought the original Siri tech in 2010, just keeps looking like a worse and worse oversight.
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The main innovation was buying all 3nm production from TSMC. Snapdragon chips on the same node perform as well.
The biggest stunt Apple pulled was making people think this is Apples new CPU designs that created the performance gap and not just buying all the production capacity for next gen fabs. We used to get that same performance gain every few years just from regular process improvements, but this time Apple made it seem like it was Apple that made the gain and not the general world.
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They did have usable file system search decades ahead of Windows.
I mean.. Does window have it now? Debatable at best..
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Not OP but that's the thing right, you've talked a lot about feels which means there will never be an answer that overcomes the emotion built in your head. I wonder what it would take to win you over, and i don't mean the rational you, which i'm sure you can justify, i mean the irrational 'i'm in love with the product' you.
It’d take these very objective things: - 7+ hour battery life while running a bunch of Docker containers and IDEs, at the same screen brightness nits I run my MacBook at. - Those things run not-perceptively-slower than on my Apple hardware - No perceptible fan noise while doing the above - The chassis does not creak when I pick it up from one corner - Does not weigh more than double my MacBook I’ll even relax the tra…
> - The chassis does not creak when I pick it up from one corner
This would be an INSTANT 'nope' from me.
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The article addresses Apple's historical late mover advantage strategy, and suggests that Tim Cook doesn't have the same vision that Jobs had to pull those moves off.
Ah yes, Jobs famously could solve the LLMs being shit problem overnight. By convincing users they want hallucinating, gas lighting imps in their pockets 24/7 to reinforce their thoughts. And he would have been all over it given his own alt-medicine beliefs.
There are a few hiccups, but everyone'e acting like Apple Silicon wasn't one of the most wildly successful overnight improvements in laptops in the last 50 years and that airpods aren't so popular that even Android phone users buy them.
Facts. I switched to Mac primarily because of the CPU. Look at the state of Intel...