[rylan-talerico]

While I agree with the post's sentiment, its assessment of Apple Intelligence overlooks its incomplete rollout, with most of the meaningful, step-change features (e.g., Siri’s contextual awareness) scheduled for release in 2025 at the earliest.

In my view, Private Cloud Compute and Apple Intelligence, together with the ubiquity of Apple devices, position Apple as a leading candidate to realize the widespread, AI-enabled transformation of personal computing discussed in the post — with tasks requiring less energy and cognitive load than they do today for the general consumer.

[015a]

Execution matters. Microsoft was best-positioned to reap the widespread, mobile-enabled transformation of personal computing. They didn't, and today with the discontinuation of the Surface Duo, they have literally zero strategy in mobile.

[pjmlp]

Worse, because of that bad decision they don't have any endpoints to sell AI and XBox services.

When Windows Phone was killed it had about 10% market share in Europe, it was slowly becoming the device that people that didn't like Android, and lacked the funds for an iPhone.

Turns out 10% is better than 0%, but they decided otherwise, and selling Microsoft Android was always hard to swallow.

[motohagiography]

I agree. the idea of being short Apple's ability to create an AI product seems to miss the one thing they are excellent at: the simple things. what they understand is you don't want AI to be impressive, you just want the things you already do today to work really well and be satisfying to use- and not know or care if there is AI behind it.

steve jobs understood you have to do really hard things very well to do anything simple beautifully. I'm pretty sure most of their AI play is still in front of them.

[twobitshifter]

Meanwhile Siri is worse than before and can’t fond my flights to add to my calendar any longer.