[mitchitized]

Definitely not seeing the horrendous collapse of the once mighty Apple.

That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI, and recent product releases/updates have been, uh, suboptimal. Latest Logic Pro is a disaster (e.g. unstable/crashing, removed key shortcuts killing productivity) and don't get me started on the dumbing-down of iOS.

They are for sure headed in the wrong direction, but they are just too big to fall overnight.

[bhouston]

> That said, they have always been behind the curve with AI

I am reminding when Android phablets were really cutting into the marketshare of Apple a decade ago. Apple was reluctant to release larger phones for a couple years and it was an opening.

But then all of a sudden Apple did release larger phones and the capabilities gap disappeared and then Apple's phone quality + CPU speeds + surrounding ecosystem of devices made the Android competitors pretty irrelevant.

[msgodel]

The problem will come when LLM driven assistants become more popular. There's no way to have a nice one on iOS without Apple giving up more control than they're willing to.

[ethbr1]

Also, the lost time iterating.

Apple should remember from its Maps debacle that it's difficult to make up years of product tuning overnight, no matter how talented a team you have.

Time >> talent

Because everyone has talent within the same order of magnitude, but no one has invented a time machine.

[freedomben]

Apple will make an exception if it's in their own interest. They also have enough money to just buy out a company and airlift them in. If there's one company that could stumble around for 20 years and still have enough money to continue without much worry, it's them.