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by CharlesW 1022 days ago
> I’m sure he’s a smart man, but considering where Siri is, and the fact he’s been there for 5 years, I’m not holding my breath.

This is the standard Apple playbook. Five years is nothing for a new Apple product or foundational technology. The M1 was based on key ARM advances that Apple started building 10 years before it was introduced. Apple worked on the project that became the Vision Pro for 16 years.
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mandeepj 1022 days ago
> Apple worked on the project that became the Vision Pro for 16 years

So during Steve Jobs tenure? Can I conclude - it got eliminated from his biography on secrecy grounds?

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CharlesW 1022 days ago
> Can I conclude - it got eliminated from his biography on secrecy grounds?

It'd be more accurate to say that biographers would not have heard anything (from Steve or any other in-the-know Apple employees) about any projects that hadn't already been unveiled by Apple.

Additionally, it seems likely that biographers would've been required to not ask about possible future projects hinted at by public resources like patents: https://www.patentlyapple.com/2023/08/apple-won-a-patent-tod...

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