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Apple CEO Tim Cook Opens Up About AI Plans, Vision Pro Future, and More in New Interview
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lol you think his job is to be inspiring?
Apple Intelligence has been better than I expected in some respects. For example, in the photos app, you can get pretty specific about a particular photo you’re looking for. I searched “gender reveal”, and it found a picture of a pink and blue cake from my sister’s gender reveal party.
Now that’s different than iOS 17, which just identified objects and dates. Apple Intelligence took the phrase “gender reveal”, and found any photos that could be related to a gender reveal party. I’m kinda impressed.
Now that’s different than iOS 17, which just identified objects and dates. Apple Intelligence took the phrase “gender reveal”, and found any photos that could be related to a gender reveal party. I’m kinda impressed.
More living Excel sheet than human, Cook continues to just throw around word husks that his PR advisors told him are inspiring, counting the seconds until the interview is over and he can count his billions.
Man, I miss Steve 😔
Man, I miss Steve 😔
Not to mention the fact that it doesn’t matter you can’t fit everybody in a theatre as they can stream them live online to millions more, as they used to. His argument is completely flawed. The only reason for these dull pre-recorded presentations is that they simply don’t have people charismatic enough to hold the stage for long enough as they used to, so they resort to an endless carousel of mini presentations which of course would require too long on a stage.
Pretty hard to stare into someone’s eyes there Tim when you’re both wearing Vision Pros.
The only Steve I miss is Wozniak. It's too bad he doesn't want to be CEO, he'd be the best one Apple ever had.
Tim Cook said that the Vision Pro ecosystem is flourishing and that he sees new apps all the time. I really have a hard time believing this, given how few AVPs have been sold. Unless, by "new apps all the time", he means a couple new apps every few months? Can anyone with an AVP confirm his statement? Do you really see a bunch of new and exciting apps coming out on the platform all the time?
The AVP, besides having a chicken-and-egg problem - commercial developers won't invest the resources to develop apps for it until there's a sufficiently large market, or at least sufficiently large market *anticipated*, but most customers won't buy an AVP until there's useful apps - is also an isolating product at too high a price to reach a mass market. In my opinion
The AVP, besides having a chicken-and-egg problem - commercial developers won't invest the resources to develop apps for it until there's a sufficiently large market, or at least sufficiently large market *anticipated*, but most customers won't buy an AVP until there's useful apps - is also an isolating product at too high a price to reach a mass market. In my opinion
Tim was personally selected by Steve Jobs himself to run Apple. And it's not just Wall Street making bank on Apple. I bought 100 shares when Jobs returned from his exile. Since then, I've made a pile of money by holding Apple and reinvesting the (meager) dividends. I now have 1,681 shares thanks to two splits and those dividends. If I met Tim, I'd thank him for his stewardship. So would anyone working for Apple. He's a consummate businessman, and Apple is a business. And without profit, there's no Apple. You no doubt don't remember 1995 & 1996 when Sun Microsystems was in talks to buy Apple, after the financial collapse that occurred under John Sculley's and Michael Spindler's leadership. Then slid even deeper into the abyss under Gil Amelio, who was fired after 500 days.
When Cook took the reins from Jobs in August 2011, Apple's market cap was $357 billion. Today it's worth over $3.5 trillion. That's execution, my friend. And concept means nothing without execution. Apple isn't perfect, but find a better run company over that time period. Only Microsoft & Nvidia compare.
Poor Tim. He really needs to be put out to pasture...I've been a die-hard mac guy since the early PowerPC days however it has really become almost unusable for anyone outside of a specific niche use-case. Please tell me why I cant sort my photos in ascending or descending order or view file names? Its clear that they are just not devoting the necessary resources into hiring talented people. I always felt that Scott Forestall should have taken the reins when Jobs passed away. Sure, he was hard to deal with and clashed with other execs but that is how you get good products. Jobs was not known for being an easy guy to work with. The issue in having an accountant run Apple is that the innovation becomes lost. The essence/substance that made the product great in the first place becomes watered-down. I find Apple hardware is increasingly limiting in that it ONLY works with Apple stuff whereas Android devices basically work with everything. I guess its a lesson they will never learn. Apple has everyone else on the ropes with iPhone, so why not make Apple stuff work with absolutely everything and wipe the competition? Yes, Apple won the phone wars but they are essentially a cell phone and media company now. They haven't released a killer product in years. Instead, they play copy and paste with innovations done elsewhere.
Looks at Siri and wonders why it's still so useless.Tim Cook said:
Sigh!
"ecosystem is flourishing."
Narrator: The ecosystem is not flourishing.
Narrator: The ecosystem is not flourishing.
I agree, Tim's done amazing work raising Apple's market cap, bringing Swift, and Apple Silicon, etc., but I do miss the showmanship of Steve Jobs. And to be fair, Steve probably did a more miraculous turnaround of Apple. As you said, Apple was in talks about another company buying it to being one of the most popular companies out there. Yes, Swift and Apple Silicon are great and all, but Steve had the iMac, iPod, iPhone, etc. A lot of "Wow!" products. Nowadays, I don't see that. And Steve's keynotes were actually fun to watch.
That's just nonsense.
Better ask here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/
I'm sure that new AVP apps are published "all the time", though not necessarily very exciting ones.
That's right, folks, Apple is pulling the strings to see where things go because the pipeline is bursting at the seams and the ecosystem is flourishing with tomorrow's technology, today, which is the era of spatial computing!!!
Smart phones are the new cigarette. One person lights theirs up and you can watch people around them, one by one, fire theirs up too.if you're looking at your phone more than you’re looking in somebody's eyes, that's a problem.
I think most of use looks at the phone or other displays way more than looking into other people's eyes, no? So I think the majority of us (that live in a tech heavy society) look more at screens than into people's eyes.
So what to do about it?
I mean I do look into eyes, just not that long per day.
I much prefer the live demos over the over-produced filmed ones. There was nothing wrong with the live announcements with cutaways to filmed and produced promos for those at home while it played on the screen live.
Not really a big deal, but there's a dynamic lost without the live demos. I was hooked from 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. When he called the Starbuck's or whatever it was, that was golden. When the audience reacts to the product and software announcements, that makes it all the better.
Not really a big deal, but there's a dynamic lost without the live demos. I was hooked from 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. When he called the Starbuck's or whatever it was, that was golden. When the audience reacts to the product and software announcements, that makes it all the better.
Cook is a bean counter. Cook is not a visionary or an innovator.