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   Ian McKellar (ian@mckellar.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 00:41:01 JST Ian McKellar

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   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I have doubts about AI, at least as we conceive of it, playing a big part of their product launches in the next year or so for a couple of reasons:
   1) they're starting from behind, they don't have big models that they've been evolving or big teams publishing papers
   2) they're very sensitive to their brand and generative AI is risky. Look how long it took Google, after inventing diffusion & transformer models to ship products, and then how they pulled things back. Apple's that x 10.

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     Ian McKellar (ian@mckellar.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 00:41:04 JST Ian McKellar

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     A groundbreaking, revolutionary new iPhone color.

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     Ian McKellar (ian@mckellar.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:52:25 JST Ian McKellar

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     They can't launch a new classifier and call it "AI" in 2024 because the market thinks "AI" means chatbots and image generators.

     They've skipped or delayed jumping on bandwagons in the past. They cancelled all their Internet stuff when Jobs came back and never did much on the "social" front, for example. They can sit out the "AI" hype cycle and then when someone comes up with compelling value just recreate it in their products.

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     Paul McAleer (paulmcaleer@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 06:03:40 JST Paul McAleer

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Yep. Cook is an amazing operational leader. He is not a product visionary, and he seemingly has no Ive replacement to act as a foil or counterpart.