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Apple has been quiet about ChatGPT. Now Tim Cook says its hefty $22.6 billion research spend is down to generative AI.
(www.businessinsider.com)
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I remember when it was “innovate, not imitate”.😔
Apple would be dead if it weren't for the iPod, which was just a nice mp3 player with a ton of marketing.
Apple created the first laptop with a backlit keyboard. The first laptop milled from a single piece of aluminum. I’m pretty sure MagSafe wasn’t used on laptops before Apple. I think the first anodized aluminum case as well.
Smart phones before the iPhone didn’t have Apps. And they weren’t all that good. Blackberry had bbm and the business world to make it slightly successful. Windows phone 6? It was fine. Not incredibly special but more useful than a flip phone.
They’ve consistently had the best notebook display resolutions.
Their eco system every one talks about not wanting to be locked in? Incredibly innovative. Go from one device to another with no transition. It’s actually a really big convenience feature.
They also have come up with innovative new ways to make awful desktop computers every couple of years. I guess the Mac mini is fine.
Innovation is making an invention into a successful product. Before iPhone there were no successful smartphones. Same with ipads.
What you’re saying is technically true but the BlackBerry was mostly a business phone and the iPhone was successful with the consumer market. Also, the iPhones success has dwarfed the BlackBerry’s even at its height. And, calling the 2007 era BlackBerry a smartphone is a little bit of a stretch. It was smarter than the other phones of that era but it was not smart by today’s standards and when we talk about smartphones we’re usually referring to modern phones with touchscreen displays.
You said
And where is the BlackBerry design now. The iPhone design isn’t just an “attractive package.” Back then, there were phones with a stylus, clamshells/sliding designs, and full keyboards. Now any modern smartphone is based off the original iPhone design.
The iPhone transformed the world. Blackberry still innovativated Business phones but did not have the impact the iPhone had.
People on this app get personal so quickly its not fun. Been here a week and more hate hit me than in 12 years of reddit. Calm tf down.
Blackberry was not a smartphone in my opinion. You are right with the rest and you can consider blackberry a smartphone if you want to. We can have different opinions.
Ok. What is the topic? Innovation vs invention?
A smartphone integrates a camera, a phone, a gps device and internet as well as being a phone and enabled communication by text, video and audio.
A device that combines all of this may have existed before but they failed in the fight for adoption by the masses. Innovation is theorized:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
What you need to make inventions into innovation is to make it accessible to people who expect products to just work. Innovation always faces resistance. The people who don’t want any change will always fight new stuff while early adopters will always try new things. The people in the middle are key. UX is a big part but also hardware and software that works without the need for tinkering is essential.
The LG Prada predates the original iPhone. Apple still didn't "create" that design.
Owned an LG Prada. It was really only similar in photos.
A Nokia 3310 would like to have a word with you
I'm not sure Apple has every really been that much about innovation when it comes to core technologies. Their business is at the product level, and given that generative AI is a product market still in flux it makes sense for them to dive into some exploration ... especially given that they're already a natural language AI assistance company.
The cofounder is famously quoted as saying "Good artists copy, great artists steal", lol
Which, appropriately, is a quote he stole from Picasso.