I am done with Apple. They've become a company only extracting money on the margins rather than innovating. Most products are stale, especially on the software side. Asking for yet another subscription is what makes the boiling kettle run over.
It's prove of what investors have been fearing. That LLMs are a dime a dozen, that there is no real moat and that the products are hence becoming commoditised.
If you can replace one model with another without noticing a huge difference, there can only be a pricing race to the bottom for market share with hence much lower potential profits than the AI bubble has priced in.
The Elon way is to fire the middle manager layer, the communication layer, that are great at writing accomplishments because they can be in ten projects at the same time.
It's because the thing is overhyped and too many people are vested in keeping the hype going.
Facing reality at this point, while necessary, is tough. The amount of ads for scam degrees from reputable unis about 'Chief AI Officer' bullshit positions is staggering. There's just tooo much AI bubbling
Not bad, but practically have you seen the underside of many trains?
The spit up of grease, leaves, metal particulate from rail and wheel grind, etc gets pretty thick.
The vision challenge is to cheaply and effectively keep a clean lens.
There's a similar challenge in monitoring production conveyor belts in mineral processing - vibration, tempreture, rocks kick about, dust make for a savage environment.
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