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Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

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Re: Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

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Post by dwaite »

dmboyd wrote: post #72
colechristensen wrote: post #55

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Compared to game consoles, graphics cards, and all manner of other electronics things... have you ever seen Apple products on those stock tracker websites? Has there ever been an actual problem with scalpers? Ever had to sign up for a waiting list? No. Besides being a little hard to find some things for a period of days after a new release, you can just buy Apple stuff. The PS5 was hard to find in stores for TWO YEAR…

Well you currently can’t buy a desktop Mac with decent ram at any price, and right now ebay and marketplace are full of people scalping Mac minis.

define "decent"

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tsunamifury wrote: post #289
vishnugupta wrote: post #231

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Apparently it required someone with the personality and product taste of Jobs to rein in Ivy. Cook on the other hand being a logistics/operations guy didn’t have the similar skills and we ended up getting absolute shitshow of hardware products from apple in late 2010s. Thankfully he was fired and sanity prevailed which coincided with Apple Silicon line professors. The MacBook Pro that was immediate predecessor to M1…

Apple grew into the best selling laptop in the world in this era. How do you justify such a take?

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Post by politelemon »

Aeroi wrote: post #365
bigyabai wrote: post #297

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> the data from icloud, cash on hand, and partnerships with sota labs, still position them as a frontier competitor that just hasn't launched yet. Apple mass-produces raster GPUs and bakes them into an expensive ARM SOC. They are not a drop-in replacement for CUDA or any of the expensive GPGPU hardware. Apple Silicon runs compute shaders just like the GPUs from 2012. You could call them a "frontier competitor that ju…

Then why is Apple Silicon the best for OpenClaw?

It isn't.

It just happens to be popular among openclaw users who don't understand how it works. Which is the perfect target audience.

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Post by politelemon »

rbanffy wrote: post #210

On the AI/Gemini and the eventual replacement for an internal stack, Apple has done that before with Apple Maps. At the start people laughed at the melting bridges and the airport in a farm (the popular Airfield farm in Dublin, which we visited countless times with our daughter and their friends), but, in the end, it's a competent replacement for Google Maps. Apple is betting that good enough will get cheaper - with…

> in the end, it's a competent replacement for Google Maps.

This must be a hallucination because it's still a wasteland here.

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Post by icedchai »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #127
ryandrake wrote: post #92

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> I do think the challenge for Apple going forwards (but also for Android) is going to be how to best take advantage of AI. IMO one of their great advantages so far is that they have not blindly bought into the AI hysteria and wasted $billions on it. They've shown you can still have a great company without chanting the "AI is the future" mantra day in and day out. It would be pretty disappointing for a new CEO to dra…

You can’t compare Apple to any other company. Apple is the only successful consumer hardware company (with Samsung being a distant second). They can afford to sit out the AI arms race. You can’t be a software company without an AI story to tell.

Walk in to any Best Buy and look around. There are many. Apple is in a league of its own, however.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

icedchai wrote: post #385
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #127

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You can’t compare Apple to any other company. Apple is the only successful consumer hardware company (with Samsung being a distant second). They can afford to sit out the AI arms race. You can’t be a software company without an AI story to tell.

Walk in to any Best Buy and look around. There are many. Apple is in a league of its own, however.

Successful == decently profitable with decent profit margins. Someone else mentioned LG with an annual profit of $2.4 billion as a “successful” company.

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Post by varjag »

thih9 wrote: post #202
varjag wrote: post #187

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Have to say I really prefer butterfly keyboard (as long as it works).

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was a great phone as long as it didn’t spontaneously combust.

These keyboards did not pose safety risk and were nicer to type than whatever the normal mushy Apple stuff is.

Mine lasted 6 years of daily use.

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Post by Supermancho »

tsunamifury wrote: post #372
achenet wrote: post #347

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> He has designed 4 consumer prodocts that a good portion of humanity use every day. Yes, but how much of that was luck and how was extraordinary talent? It's like saying "Donald Trump is really rich, ergo he must be a financial genius"... getting really rich isn't that hard if you're born into money and invest in New York real estate. Now someone like Jobs who had fairly working class parents and founded a multi-bil…

This take is so hardworkingly naive I dont even know where to start. After having the undesputed greatest set of products designed in a row, you dane to call it luck. Asside from your complete ignorance of the history at play, (Ive refounded Apple with Jobs) you seem to not understand what a 'mediocre' designer is capable of and how mind-bendinly hard it was to design the imac, ipad, iphone and apple watch I genuinel…

> HN has truly become one of the most toxically stupid places on the web

Stupid and uninformed are different things. The constant stream of personal attacks and handwaving about abstract difficulty is not compelling.

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Post by vlapec »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #282
vel0city wrote: post #226

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Its interesting the touch bar was also hung up, as from what I recall the touchbar was actually driven by a separate processor (the T1/T2 chip) and had its own version of watchOS running. I would have thought it would have continued working, just unable to continue syncing with the rest of the Mac.

It’s rare but I’ve definitely seen my touchbar lock up or go dark and require a restart. It also could get mad hot on my 2016 MBpro when video editing. Still love(d) that computer though…

I still own a 13-inch MacBook Pro 2019 with the Touch Bar, and I believe it’s the last Intel-based model.

What a nightmare. ‘Mad hot’ even on… just being alive.

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Post by afro88 »

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