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Apple tried to ride the wave of AI and failed (Apple Intelligence?)

Apple has recently released a paper which says AI is all maths but a lot of people are saying that they are just "coping" with them losing the AI race.

Apple is one of the largest companies, with I guess a lot of cash and just power. So if they still can't win/compete effectively in the AI race when they had gone all in once does raise some questions about what really is happening within Apple.



> Apple tried to ride the wave of AI and failed (Apple Intelligence?)

It was a crappy product, I agree. I keep it disabled.

> Apple has recently released a paper which says AI is all maths but a lot of people are saying that they are just "coping" with them losing the AI race.

It is a single paper and not reflectively of company strategy.

> Apple is one of the largest companies, with I guess a lot of cash and just power. So if they still can't win/compete effectively in the AI race when they had gone all in once does raise some questions about what really is happening within Apple.

Apple has to compete with other hardware vendors primarily right? Samsung mostly. And they are doing that effectively.

Everyone's models are being obsoleted 6 months after they are released. It is a capital intensive market and it isn't clear anyone is actually profitable. I am not sure that Apple needs to get involved in this race, especially when there is little that is proprietary for more than a few months.

That said, if Apple did need to get into this race, they should just buy Anthropic. It is a no drama company that just delivers. It would match Apple's corporate style and it would likely deliver a lot of key features into the various OSes.


> Apple has to compete with other hardware vendors primarily right? Samsung mostly.

Apple has to compete with other mobile ecosystem providers.

So Samsung + (to varying degrees) Google.


Google Pixel has ~5% of the market I understand from current estimates. Apple has 50%, while Samsung has 25%:

https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/north-...


I mean that a large portion of Android platforms (even Samsung) are powered by Google. Therefore, to some degree, Apple (which owns its entire platform) is competing against Samsung+Google (on Samsung phones).




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