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  • > Ultimately, the answer is simple: reinventing AI is essentially reinventing the smartphone.

    I don’t think this is true at all. The smartphone is not some kind of endgame device after which there is no future. No more so than the train was the endgame of transportation. Why are we limiting our imagination about the future to only include what is true today?

    by overvale
  • Kind of weird that nobody's talking about getting rid of the hardware? An ESP32 that streams compressed audio over a mobile connection is all you should need to replace the "smarts" in a cellphone. Have a remote server do it all, and the local device is just a glorified mic and earbud. Give me a clickwheel and an audible user interface and I can do 90% of what I use a computer for.
    by 0xbadcafebee
  • I wish more people pointed out the obvious when the Vision Pro hype was everywhere on HN.

    > The crux of the problem was clear: these devices were captivated by "technical possibilities," but failed to address "user problems."

    Hmm.

    by rs186
  • I would love to know if Ives was truly foundation to the iPhone, or if he was more given the overall idea and polished it with the final look/feel (which is also important).

    Who was the exact individual that had the vision for glass multi-touch screens and sick gesture like effects (scroll).

    Perhaps the team just sat around a table and came up with the vision. Or maybe it was Jobs, but clearly there were some good visionaries in the company.

    I think the proof of Ive's excellence will come out of this next OpenAI project. If it's something lame, then I will assume his impact at Apple was overrated. If it's a jaw-dropper, then maybe he really is the cat's meow.

    by proee
  • > No matter how beautiful its design, it's meaningless without the software to back it up.

    Word.

    I worked as a software developer, for hardware companies, most of my career.

    Most of the upper management came from hardware, and consistently treated software as an afterthought.

    That may change, this time. Different breed of top managers.

    by ChrisMarshallNY
  • > iPhone wasn't successful because of its beautiful design

    Relatively speaking I think that gave it an edge which helped make it successful.

    I don't think Apple products in general have the best most usable designs, but they do have the most beautiful, most stylish most sophisticated-looking designs. People want that because a device like phone is part of their identity.

    by galaxyLogic
  • > The iPhone wasn't successful because of its beautiful design. It was because it packed everything we needed every day—phone calls, music, internet, photos, maps—into a single device.

    Have to disagree here. There were many devices before (and after) the iPhone that offered this package but it stands above the rest because of its design and polish.

    by _vaporwave_
  • The article buries the lede on the only point that matters with these "AI" hardware devices. They need to solve a problem their customers have, and all the devices these companies have released so far don't do anything that a smartphone can't easily do.
    by starky

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