🚨Gavin Baker: Apple's ineptitude in AI is shocking, "it almost feels like they're trying to lose."
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Brief Summary
Apple's $700 billion buyback raises questions about its AI strategy and product quality.
Key points
- Apple's Share Buyback. Apple has bought back $700 billion worth of shares over the past decade.
- Critique of Apple's AI Strategy. Criticism of Apple's approach to AI and their product performance.
Transcript
Apple has bought back, let this sink in, $700 billion worth of shares over the past decade. Maybe they should have spent 200 billion less and spent that on data centers and been like a real competitor in AI. And I just continue to be baffled, you know, and I think they're very comfortable being late to markets. You know, the iPhone was not the first smartphone, but I'm just shocked at their inaction and in aptitude and AI, how bad the products are from a user perspective. I mean, they're they're terrible. They're getting worse. Siri's worse. Siri's worse. How is that possible? Incompetence is indistinguishable from
malice, but I mean, it almost feels like they're trying to lose. Literally, if you said, "Here's a playbook on how to lose," they would have written it. So, it's astonishing to me their lack of execution on AI.
