[rainsford]

I don't even think it's about data. Since when has Apple's strategy been about being "first" to anything? I'm probably showing my age, but I remember the iPod being ridiculed as both late to the MP3 player game, especially if you were a PC user, and lacking "key" features the competitors had like FM receivers.

Literally none of that ended up mattering to the actual success of the product, a pattern that has been repeated with a lot of Apple products. My first MP3 player, smartphone, tablet, laptop, etc, were not Apple products but that's what I own now (well except for the MP3 player which is essentially a dead product category).

[menacingly]

that's a good point. it could also be the same reason everyone else is struggling: it's very hard to find compelling utility for LLMs. We absolutely will, but it's difficult.

Right now everyone is setting incomprehensibly expensive amounts of compute on fire, for basically free, in the hopes utility emerges