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John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'
gizmodo.com/john-ternus-era-at-apple-kicks-off-with-the-changing-of-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-2000805913
Replying to @ardi60@reddthat.com
The president has these companies hostage in terms of trade rules. They appease him or they lose out, and considering the state of big tech, they need friends, because the AI bubble has drained their supply chains of resources.
Replying to @EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
The thing is, Apple was the exception in terms of the “AI” circlejerkery. Not trying to fanboi for them - simply pointing out that they are nowhere near the proportional outlay that the kool-aid drinkers are, in terms of ML spend.
Replying to @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
That’s probably about to change with their new CEO too:
“It’s becoming clear that AI is not a fad, is not something that will go away in the next two or three years,” said Jeronimo. “It’s something that will dictate the future of most tech companies and indeed all companies.”
He reckons AI could be “the most consequential technology” for Apple because it could either help it maintain its lofty position or create a set of daunting challenges.
It’s pretty likely that AI was the reason why Apple is changing CEOs in the first place, because they have been getting criticized for not being as hopelessly stupid about it as other tech companies are.
Replying to @capital5@discuss.tchncs.de
Nah, I don’t think that’s it. Cook is 65, and retirement (or semi-retirement) is appropriate for his age.
Termus is a hardware guy, and if AI is going to play a part in Apple’s long-term plan (and I agree that it will,) it’s going to skew heavily on-device. I don’t think we see any big AI changes from Apple just because Ternus is now CEO.
Replying to @blitzen@lemmy.ca
Fair, he was due to retire.
But at the very least, there’s a good chance that Apple will start trying to shoehorn integrate AI in a lot of places. How much and where remains to be seen. Especially as a new CEO, there will be a lot of pressure to respond to all the criticism they’ve been receiving about their approach to AI.
Replying to @blitzen@lemmy.ca
Also, Apple was kinda dull under Cook.
Which is a weird thing to say when you have big swings like the Vision Pro. But the phones pads and watches really played it safe.
Replying to @DScratch@sh.itjust.works
Totally agree and why I’m cautiously optimistic about Ternus.
Replying to @DScratch@sh.itjust.works
Dull but extremely profitable and successful as a company. Maybe their products are boring and there were a few flops along the way (HomePod, Vision Pro) but the transition to the M chips seems to have been successful and iPhone is still 21% of market share of the smart phone market.
Let’s see how the floppy phone is received when it comes out in a few days.
Replying to @blitzen@lemmy.ca
Yeah exactly, local AI is the long term future. Open weight models running on your desk are already good enough for a lot of tasks, and quickly getting better.
Apple are in a very good position here and don’t really need to do all that much other than continue to iterate on their existing hardware.
Compare that to Anthropic, OpenAI who must spend insane amounts to host their closed weight models, which seem to be unprofitable at any prices people are actually prepared to pay. As local AI improves these companies have no other business to fall back on. I know which company I’d rather be CEO of right now.
Replying to @blitzen@lemmy.ca
BS is all that is driving hardware sales at the moment. Computers have been fit-for-purpose for the last 10 years.
If people don’t submit to the AI BS, they won’t need to upgrade their computers.
The only way to force people to upgrade their computers is forced obsolescence; which requires the hardware to have some sort of remote kill switch, like a TPM.
This is also why open source OSs are being criminalised; if you can run Linux on an old MacBook or Surface Pro 4, there is no incentive to buy a new computer.
Replying to @Salvo@aussie.zone
which requires the hardware to have some sort of remote kill switch, like a TPM.
Okay I’m curious now, what’s the mechanism of killing hardware via TPM?
Replying to @boonhet@sopuli.xyz
I guess @Salvo might have been referring to the possibility of subverting “trusted” platform modules into treacherous ones.
Replying to @Salvo@aussie.zone
Where is running Linux being criminalized? I dual boot my MacBook Pro with Linux just fine.