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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: The facts show Apple is two generations behind Android
 in AI (artificial intelligence)
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:01:25 -0400
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Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> On 2024-07-20 11:07:59 +0000, -hh said:
> 
>> On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:
>>> "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been
>>> since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024
>>> during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced
>>> in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI
>>> efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."
>>> 
>>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D.
>> 
>> But how does it actually matter how far someone is "behind" when the 
>> shiny new widget still isn't all that great, and doesn't actually 
>> reliably provide meaningful productivity gains?
>> uttinf 
>> Case in point, AI asked to render salmon swimming upstream:
>> 
>> 
>> <https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yijd3c/they_asked_an_ai_engine_to_recreate_a_salmon/>
>> 
>
> 
> Ignoring the fact that AI is utterly useless and nothing more than 
> another fad  gimmick ... 

Well, it may be a fad .. or perhaps not (at least for certain niches).
Real point is that it is still formative and immature today.


> Apple has a tendency to come in "late" and leapfrog
> everyone else with a much better version. When the iPhone was 
> released, everyone else had to quickly play catch-up and lazily 
> copied the iPhone (and many still do) with a sub-quality knock-off.

Pretty much what I was alluding to:  having an “early lead” to market when
the tech change hasn’t adequately matured isn’t really worth that much:  

thus, it is  far wiser to let it continue to mature without putting its
warts out on public display where it can only created a poor opinion of it:
use that developmental time to find where it actually makes a difference
(eg productivity) before commercially launching it .. which is yes, pretty
typical of how Apple tends to operate.


-hh