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Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

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Post by ezst »

FireBeyond wrote: post #361
ezst wrote: post #273

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3. Is what I call a smart move. Sometimes the game is won by not playing, and it's increasingly obvious that the LLM race leads to nowhere (there is no moat, there is nothing unique or clever that Apple can build out of it that can't be mimicked by others, made better, with Apple looking bad as a result, the tech is flawed, with clear diminishing returns, ...). If anything worth of the Apple logo comes out of this, i…

Okay, so assume that's the hypothesis... Siri is STILL utter garbage. It's like a POC so many times. Its accent recognition for me is horrible, and it feels like so many of its interaction types are hardcoded, like "Do X at this time" "Sure". "Do Y (very similar thing) at this time" "I can't do that". And while I get (but don't necessarily always agree with) per-app isolation, it leads to absolutely comical things. M…

> Siri is STILL utter garbage.

Always was. If Apple had an easy trick to make it any good or useful, they would have already. LLMs aren't that, so Siri remains what it is.

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Post by bigyabai »

Aeroi wrote: post #426
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There is a place for local models. Typing prediction, speech to text, etc. But I have yet to see uses of local LLMs that are all that compelling.

Imagine in 10 years where local models will be, we're still in the 1st inning.

The transformer architecture will be 10 years old, next year. We're in the second or third inning of LLMs right now, depending on how much credit you give ELMo and BERT.

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Post by sneak »

wpm wrote: post #275
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I collect the 12" macbooks, even today. It really only needs one port; the vast majority of people never plug anything but power into their computer ever. I would pay huge sums for a modern Mx 11-12" ultralight macbook with a reliable keyboard.

Any advice for finding them other than partaking in whatever premimum drugs eBay sellers smoke to make the prices they are charging for essentially e-waste make sense? God I want to pick up one so bad but $150, $200, $300, hell there's one out there asking $1200! For a computer that was pretty crap when it was new? I absolutely loved the one I used from 2017-2021. It was a maxed out 2017 model in gold. Some bozo dire…

The Macbook equivalent of the iPhone Air. They’re already using the “air” moniker for a mac that won’t fit into a manila envelope, so they’d need a new name.

I’ve just been buying expensive parts on eBay. I have two 16GB motherboards now and a few bottom cases and screens. Shoot me an email.

Same deal with the blank check. I carry a $7k MBP, I would have paid that for a much lower spec machine if it were stupid tiny.

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Post by iwontberude »

tsunamifury wrote: post #212
iwontberude wrote: post #167

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I love that he instantly flopped repeatedly and showed it was actually Apple that was great all along.

This is, by far, the most insane take i've ever heard. The guy litterally built modern apple from the ground up in equal with Jobs.

Absolute bullshit.

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Post by iwontberude »

33MHz-i486 wrote: post #178
iwontberude wrote: post #167

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I love that he instantly flopped repeatedly and showed it was actually Apple that was great all along.

OpenAI acquired his company for Billions. maybe the products flopped but he did fine for himself personally

Sure he made it into the Epstein class, whoopty fucking do

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Post by iwontberude »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #375
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I love that he instantly flopped repeatedly and showed it was actually Apple that was great all along.

He didn't flop. He's had a number of high-status bespoke projects, including the coronation logo for King Charles and a redesign of Christie's (auction house) podium. He's not doing commoditised consumer design any more. He has enough money now, so he no longer needs to. The most consumer-oriented work recently has been an interior for the new Ferrari Luce EV. I agree his post-Jobs years at Apple were somewhere betwe…

Liquid Glass is fine for me and the people I talk to, I didn't even notice it happened when the upgrade happened and so many people have been complaining.

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Post by jklp »

doitLP wrote: post #54
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> Can anyone point me to what he does, on a day to day basis, that makes him and operational genius? How does it manifest in him personally? Under Jobs, he transformed the company from one that had hardware taking up space in warehouses waiting to be purchased and shipped to The iPod Company. Their sales of iPods were a huge part of their growth and resurgence. They had entirely new models and designs every year and…

Thanks, but how did he do it? Actually what does he do than saying “ok guys tip priority is moving these units”? Like do he come up with the strategies? Or is he good at picking winners when he sees them from proposals of his underlings?

I think this is something a lot of people who haven't managed others before find hard to understand

The easiest example I've found is comparing a manager to a conductor in an orchestra.

Most people will only see a conductor on the night of the performance, and they don't look like they do much, but a lot of the work is actually done before the night.

The main issue is that because there are so many musicians in an orchestra, it's hard to have an overall view of what everyone's doing and if a piece sounds good.

The main job of the conductor is to be the person who has that big picture. They make sure everyone is playing in time and in key. And if they're tricky parts of the piece - they make sure it's played properly. If it isn't, they hold individual practice sessions to make those parts smoother. If some musicians aren't performing well, they have conversations with them and maybe let them go. If there aren't enough musicians they hire more. And if the pieces aren't working they change them from the millions of pieces available to play. And they have to do it in a way so as not to make the orchestra angry and all quit!

So to answer your question what does Tim Cook actually do? Does he tell his staff the priority is moving xyz units, does he come up with the core strategy, does he pick up good ideas from his staff. The answer is most likely yes to all the above - but that's such a small part of it.

The big thing he needs to do is have a vision for how he wants the business to be, and then do those parts you mentioned, plus the hundreds of other tasks and decisions to get it there.

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Post by changyou »

havaloc wrote: post #9

Cook seems to be dragged for some of his decisions ( like China ), but he was the right CEO for the time. Ternus in turn seems to be the right CEO for this phase of Apple. I'm excited to see what Ternus does in the role! It's a homecoming of sorts having a product person and there has already been chatter he'll be more like Jobs in the role. If they can maintain their hardware lead and tighten up the software a bit,…

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