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already bought seven companies this year he
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actually said i think you didn't quote he's
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like we buy a company every several weeks
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right like we're on it we're buying companies
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all the time you guys don't talk about it but
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we're buying companies people are asking
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about but what he says here and i think
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this is i think this is true and i think this
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is it is both spin and narrative building and
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true which is he wants to explain how apple
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buys companies and why apple buys companies and
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i think this is i think this is really good this
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is one of those rare little moments where you
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figure this is how apple behaves from observation
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and then you see them kind of phrase it in a
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certain way in a call where you're like see
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there there it is they're saying what we
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observe and so what he said is we sorry for
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using these terms again but we're open to m&a that
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accelerates our roadmap we ask ourselves whether a
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company can help us accelerate our roadmap so
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what does this mean i'll translate it now into
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human apple wants to buy a company that helps
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further its plans and i think that's important
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because what apple doesn't like to do is buy a
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company that has its own plans and then make
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those its plans apple apple and you could say
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this right or wrong for ai by the way i think it
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cuts both ways here but what apple is the way
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apple looks at buying companies is will that
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company take us where we want to go not we don't
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know where to go let's buy this company and
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they'll take tell us where to go that is not
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what apple does so i think that's worth thinking
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of the next time you hear about apple buying a
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company because most of the acquisitions apple
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does are very much like oh we need to do this
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thing there's a company that does this thing
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let's just buy them and now they are doing that
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thing for us and not uh i don't know what we're
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going to do next let's just buy a let's buy a
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company and they'll tell us what to do that's just
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not how they approach it but they do buy companies and
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he is also saying here doesn't have to be a small
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company i think that apple wants to make that
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clear that occasionally they will spend a huge
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sum sum of money on a big company but mostly they
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don't and i think he's trying to reassure them
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that if they want to buy an ai company an ai
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company that is going to take apple where it feels
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it needs to go strategically they'll do it and i think
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that's what wall street wants to hear honestly but i
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think he wanted to put it in the context of like how
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apple approaches that thing which is you know we
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will do what we need to do to further our goals and um you
00:46:57
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know leaving all the accelerated roadmaps out of
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it i think that's what they're what they're always
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trying to do i do think they're on the hunt for the
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ai companies though i think so i think in talking
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about this in this way to me i i agree with what
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you're saying but to talk about it in this way uh even
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referencing like accelerating a road map what roadmap you
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know and so i think that they're trying to signify that
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they are on the lookout and they will buy but i would say
00:47:25
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this never say never this is like so the baseball trade
00:47:30
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deadline was last week too and everybody's like
00:47:31
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everybody's already got got this amazing trade that they're
00:47:34
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going to do where a big you know star is going to come to their
00:47:37
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team and a blockbuster and most of the trades are boring
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and i want to say that it's it's a little like this too which is
00:47:42
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everybody's going to talk about what if apple buys company you've heard of
00:47:46
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and maybe they will like like tim cook said you know
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it it could happen but i would say the most likely scenario is that apple will buy
00:47:58
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ai companies you haven't heard of that are startups that are doing interesting
00:48:03
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things with interesting talent that is fitting with what apple wants to do and i
00:48:08
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don't know enough about this space to know who those people are either but like i would
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say if there are if there are companies that are building interesting models efficient models models
00:48:19
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models that really want run well on um on phone hardware and pc hardware that don't need uh you know that are more efficient or that they had a breakthrough in terms of efficiency those are things apple's going to be interested in
00:48:34
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um but and my you know my guess is that there are a bunch of ai startups out there
00:48:41
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will that please wall street and will that solve some of apple's real problems with brain drain
00:48:47
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and with strategy i don't know right like and they could if they really want to go buy
00:48:52
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you know if they're for sale buy a big company you've heard of maybe they'll do that too but
00:48:57
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i would say best guess is they will continue to buy companies you've never heard of but that
00:49:05
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maybe somebody who's been focused on ai will be like oh that's i see what they're doing there that's smart
00:49:10
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yeah um and and that's because that's their that's generally their playbook not roadmap playbook is
00:49:16
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accelerate the playbook that you can accelerate the playbook by buying a uh smaller companies
00:49:21
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you know and so yeah we'll see but but i mean he feels the pressure right cook feels the pressure
00:49:26
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he has to say something like that out loud uh it's because people are asking everyone is asking are
00:49:32
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you gonna buy ai stuff and he the two together is like look we're working on ai stuff we're spending
00:49:37
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more money on r&d we're retasking our people and sure we buy companies all the time and if it fits
00:49:42
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with what we're doing we will look at it because that's what we do um and he's trying to reassure
00:49:46
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investors that that's what apple is doing with their ai strategy and you know take it for what it's
00:49:50
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worth i mean this i'm just i'm just telling you what they're saying uh you can believe them or not
00:49:54
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like they're not lying but they're they're spinning for the street they want to say we're on it and you
00:50:00
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mark german reported on the aforementioned in this episode one hour all hands meeting that apple held
00:52:26
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last week apparently a meeting of this type is rare um to have like a big all hands for such a long
00:52:33
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period of time uh it included a bunch of executives i have information here about stuff that tim and
00:52:39
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craig fitterighi said so a couple of quotes for you tim said that the ai revel this is quoting mark
00:52:45
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german um so there's some quotes some like right some of mark german's color on this so tim said that
00:52:52
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the ai revolution is as big or bigger as the internet smartphones cloud computing and apps apple must do
00:52:59
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this apple will do this this is sort of ours to grab we will make the investment to do it all right now
00:53:05
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i i want to i want to stop you there just to say he's talking to apple he's talking to everybody at
00:53:12
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apple and so we all can debate where the ai revolution slots and is it overhyped and all those things and
00:53:20
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again my standard is it is overhyped and also huge both of those things are true i'm in the middle on
00:53:27
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this i think that it's i think it's big but i think that also there are a lot of people trying to make
00:53:32
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a bubble and you know get a lot of investment and cash out and i think there's a lot of hype but i
00:53:37
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still think it's huge however none of that matters this is a pep talk this is a pep talk where at where
00:53:44
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apple's ceo is telling all apple employees that he thinks that this is as big or bigger as any of the
00:53:53
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other tech product cycles that have happened and that apple has to be on it because this is an
00:53:59
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opportunity for apple and that apple has to do it and i i mean say what you will about how apple has
00:54:05
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handled ai stuff up to now but like for apple to succeed doing ai stuff there needs to be organizational
00:54:14
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alignment about it and that means the ceo has to come to the employees and say hey this is huge and it
00:54:20
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matters and we're going to take this right like we're going to do it if he doesn't do that if he
00:54:24
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pooh poohs it then that's a different story but like if you're if you're going for it you gotta you gotta
00:54:29
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get the employees all worked up about it i will i completely agree what you're saying i will add to it
00:54:36
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though that nobody no effective internal communications team creates a presentation like this today
00:54:44
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without knowing it will get out so he is speaking of course to apple but he's also speaking to people
00:54:52
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that pay attention he's also speaking to bloomberg readers and he knows it he knows it because if they
00:54:58
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wanted to get this out they're different i mean if they wanted to be secret they wouldn't put it in
00:55:02
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you know like absolutely i'm sure mark german got 70 versions uh i'm sure he did of this call all
00:55:10
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recorded uh tim spoke about how apple is rarely first to a market so he spoke about the ipod spoke about
00:55:17
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the iphones right these are products that we were late to the market for mp3 players we were late to
00:55:21
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the market for smartphones uh but they end up excelling he he said in these instances that apple invented the
00:55:28
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modern products and feels that they would do the same for ai i don't know what that means
00:55:36
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realistically but i do like the sentiment like i like the sentiment right like if you believe you're
00:55:44
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going to do this like if apple believes that they have because it isn't what they're shipping i'll tell
00:55:48
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you that right like it's not yeah so if if they believe that they are on the path to to doing like
00:55:56
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the good version of ai quote-unquote right like i am really intrigued to see what they think that is
00:56:02
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yeah and and the um i think there's a couple things going on right it is a pep talk if and so you want
00:56:08
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to give people hope you want to say like what do i have to offer at apple maybe you know if chat gpt did
00:56:12
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this already if open ai is already on it like what google's on it what do i even have to offer here
00:56:17
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maybe i should go somewhere else make a difference and tim cook is like no we're going to do what apple
00:56:22
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does which is we're going to come in with our uh special skills and we're going to redefine this and
00:56:27
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that's the thing that i think as the ceo you need to say and you're trying to rev up your people and
00:56:32
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we've talked a lot about like what is the unique apple spin on some of this ai stuff and i keep coming
00:56:38
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back to the idea that apple makes products that people use and that those products run software
00:56:45
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including other people software and apple software and like if apple can productize ai in a lot of
00:56:51
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different ways where it changes features of apps and they get siri up and running with a proper
00:56:56
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ai framework and they and they build a a thing that uses ai technology but in a really integrated way
00:57:05
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there's a huge opportunity for them and also work with partners so like there's a path forward here
00:57:11
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but if you're doing a pep talk you have to this is what you have to say
00:57:14
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it is something where it's like uh like hearing hearing you say that it's like it's disappointing
00:57:20
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in a way like at that apple intelligence shipped in the way that it did because i remember we were
00:57:26
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talking like this before right like before wwdc last year where it was like oh like they're gonna
00:57:32
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come in and they're gonna be late to this but they're gonna like do the apple thing and like they
00:57:37
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right they fail and they well they had the they had the attitude of doing it but their their models
00:57:41
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couldn't back it up yeah and we have more about that in a minute but yes yeah that's that's why
00:57:46
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every time apple talks about or uh bloom bloomberg and german report about people leaving the
00:57:51
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like he's literally reporting one at a time as people leave the the foundation model team and i on the
00:57:57
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one hand brain drain is real and scary on the other hand every time he says oh the foundation model
00:58:01
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team lost another member i'm like again just from the outside what is the fund foundation model team
00:58:06
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done for anybody i just i'm sorry but like the embarrassment of apple intelligence in a lot of
00:58:12
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ways was the fact that the models weren't good they were way behind now maybe this makes it worse but
00:58:17
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like that's part of the challenge here is that they got to make it they got to make it better and
00:58:21
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shipping apple intelligence also keep in mind the thing that was the most apple of all those
00:58:25
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announcements is the one they didn't ship yeah which is using your personal information and parsing it
00:58:30
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and having that all happen on device and all that and they couldn't get it to work and they
00:58:33
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couldn't ship it let's talk about that maybe in the coming year right we've got a bit more
00:58:37
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information about that and we'll go back to tim so craig veterigy spent some time in this presentation
00:58:41
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talking about the personalized siri project so at wwdc they were talking about like having these two
00:58:48
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paths right that they could have gone down and they took one path and it was the wrong path and that was
00:58:53
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kind of like the only information that they were giving and he was giving a version of that story
00:58:58
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to a bunch of outlets well now they've actually giving they've given a little bit more about what
00:59:03
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that was so this wrong path that they went down was trying to build two architectures for siri that
00:59:10
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worked side by side one for standard tasks like setting reminders and one for llm based tasks and that
00:59:17
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they would operate simultaneously on your device and that the system would work out what you needed and
00:59:22
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like this is a thing that like is this is actually a problem with a lot of the the assistants on devices
00:59:28
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like my understanding is like gemini on android is like really bad and like can't set timers like so
00:59:34
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they have to also have google assistant still to do that kind of thing and you operate with them
00:59:39
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slightly differently from each other so but apple were like oh we're gonna we're gonna fix this by
00:59:45
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having two different systems that operate together but it seems like it failed now they have been
00:59:52
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working on something that is fully integrated and this is a quote from craig the work we've done on
00:59:57
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this end-to-end revamp of siri has given us the results we needed this has put us in a position to
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not just deliver what we announced but to deliver a much bigger upgrade than we envisioned there is no
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project people are taking more seriously and he also goes on to give a big shout out to mike rockwell
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basically saying this man saved this essentially
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yeah great i mean great i hope i hope so i like i like them saying um and this goes back to the
01:00:28
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consequences of apple intelligence stuff not shipping is that as we've all noted all they really announced
01:00:34
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at wwdc is stuff that's in the betas and it seems very much that the the only announced stuff that
01:00:40
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they were ready to ship which means that what we're probably going to have over the course of next year
01:00:45
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is new announcements of features that will go in the os's in midstream yeah but that we don't know
01:00:53
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about now because they weren't willing to promise them until they were further along and so this
01:00:58
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suggestion a much bigger upgrade than we've envisioned um who knows when that will come and if it will work out
01:01:05
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but it's possible the next spring they will have an os update that will have you know more than just that
01:01:12
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more personalized siri that they talked about but had maybe maybe that siri entirely getting replaced who knows
01:01:19
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but i i like i mean again proof is in the pudding but i do like them saying at least that they're taking
01:01:25
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it seriously that mike rockwell is on it and they feel like they've got like has given us the results
01:01:29
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we needed is a pretty big statement right it's like literally it works so let's go back to tim
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uh tim also spoke about their ai investment here as well so we were referencing that they were talking
01:01:43
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about it in the earnings call uh so tim said that apple was hired 12 000 people in the last year
01:01:51
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40 of these people were in research and development roles with the implication i guess that they are
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ai majority mostly ai yeah but like they don't say that but you you kind of guess right well they're
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not they're not going to break it out but you know i i assume that there's lots of r&d going on in all
01:02:11
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sorts of areas in terms of hardware and stuff like that too but they want the implication is that they
01:02:15
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have hired a lot of people um and that ai is a top priority in r&d so therefore you can do the math
01:02:23
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but they're not going to tell you and also tim urged employees to use ai more in the work that they are
01:02:30
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doing so this is a quote from tim all of us are using ai in a significant way already and we must use
01:02:36
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it as a company as well to not do so would be to be left behind and we can't do that
01:02:42
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but i wonder what ai a lot of people inside of apple can actually truly use like from a security
01:02:49
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perspective right like can you just well they i mean they've got the they've got all the stuff like
01:02:54
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for developers they've got all the xcode stuff yeah which is shipping and that and that is that is safe
01:02:59
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um as far as they're concerned so i i think look again it's a pep talk i think what he's saying is
01:03:07
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i mean honestly don't be afraid of this and honestly what got them into this was poo-pooing
01:03:13
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yeah ai yeah yeah and being like no no no no that's the big story not not for me and it's like no you
01:03:19
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need to you need to use it and understand it that doesn't mean i know there are people out there who
01:03:23
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really hate ai who are going to say this is really gross apple's apple's being gross and i don't like
01:03:29
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it i'm like well it's a pep talk and i i would also say one of the important things if you're going to be
01:03:35
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a technologist and you're going to be doing this stuff is to try this stuff and understand where it's
01:03:39
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good where it's bad be knowledgeable about it it's a little bit like like saying i don't read but i write
01:03:49
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novels it's like what are you doing like you you you are in case you're gonna not do a good job
01:03:55
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of being a writer if you don't read because you need to understand what writing is and how it works
01:04:02
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and what's going you know you you need to be a person who understands your subject matter and uh if
01:04:09
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you're a technology person at apple if you say oh i don't just i just don't do ai stuff you are failing
01:04:18
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it doesn't mean you have to love it it doesn't mean you have to embrace it and everything but it
01:04:23
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means you need to understand it and understand where it works well and where it doesn't work well
01:04:27
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and where it might go and how that relates to your products that you're working on that is important so
01:04:32
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it is a pep talk but i think that that's what he's going to here he's not saying hey from now on all
01:04:37
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apple icons should be generated by ai he's not saying that but he's saying um not only can ai lead to
01:04:44
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productivity boosts in some cases where it can in some cases but also you need to understand it
01:04:50
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so going back to mark german uh there is a more information about something else this is kind of
01:04:58
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that's what kind of wraps up the uh yes speaking speaking of mike rockwell taking over siri and
01:05:03
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doing amazing things whatever happened to robbie walker who was the guy who was in charge of siri
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so mark german is reporting that apple is building a new answers knowledge and information
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aki team to create their own world knowledge lm for the iphone world knowledge would essentially be
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competing with what they have chat gpt doing so answering questions essentially this team is being
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run by robbie walker who previously worked on jane andrea robbie was the executive who held that leaked
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meeting in may about the delayed siri features um that's where that was the you know we're trying
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to go to hawaii but we never got there yeah that's that we're still in the ocean uh quote from mark
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german while still in the early stages this team is building what it calls an answer engine a system
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capable of crawling the web to respond to general knowledge questions a standalone app is currently under
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exploration alongside new back-end infrastructure meant to power search engine capabilities in siri spotlight
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safari yeah yeah i mean they should have this they shouldn't be relying on another company to do this
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absolutely 100 like they can but they shouldn't try they shouldn't accept that they should be trying
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to do their own thing i agree there should be a choice the customer should be able to choose um
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i mean they should also be able to choose for more than just open ai which is the thing that should
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have happened by now but seems not to have not yet um but the default should be apple the default
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should not be churchy pt sure yeah apple should be able to do this themselves and um they don't
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i i i think it's the classic thing which is like there should be a default that that is not charging
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you or whatever there should be a default that that is provided by apple yeah and then ideally there should
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be options if you have a preferred provider to choose the preferred provider but the default
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should be good and by apple i would say maybe a european regulator would disagree but i think that
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part of apple's whole model is that they have built something for their users in their software
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and then you know what you really want is to let people use something else if they want to
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not that apple can't make one so i think this is yeah and and bottom line right we talk about the
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foundation models and people leaving that group and that they kind of let apple intelligence down
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last cycle the fact is i think apple needs to be building good models right like they they've gotta
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be building good ml models that's that's the name of the game right now in so many different product
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categories so they need to be on it it feels like especially from that all hands meeting
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it kind of feels like they've woken up to this now oh yeah right and and that like they also want
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they do want the world to know that like like we're on we're on now the question is like how did they
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how does it differ from last summer when they did the apple intelligence announcement and they said hey
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hey we're on it because they really needed to because they felt enormous pressure my feeling is that
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they tried to smile through it yeah last summer they were trying to swing their arms around and like
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say that they were under they they like had this and they had the best system ever yeah and they
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couldn't deliver ready they just weren't ready and now and i would i would say it's a little like
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remember remember when iphone sales slowed down and uh we got all the all the information from
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apple retail about how like it this is simplifying it basically like apple retail realized it needed to
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make an effort to sell the iphone yeah deals deals deals they had spent years just like iphones are in
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boxes here and would you like one and that's it and then they're like oh and and which is brilliant
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if you create a hit product and you don't have to do and make any effort to sell it awesome
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but then the sales slowed and they're like oh we need to make an effort to sell iphones for the first
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time well this feels a little like that to me where apple was like hey it's apple we're doing it it's
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going to be great and now it feels like no we need to make an effort we need we need we need to try
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it turns out we can't just be apple and solve this we have to task the whole company and this is not
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quite a bill gates you know we're going to make the all of microsoft into you know internet focus
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but it's it's in that direction of tim cook saying no ai is super important to this company and we need
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to focus on it and and we need to pay attention and i i just there's some level of understanding of
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the size of the challenge that i feel i'm not saying that people didn't feel it last year but i feel
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emanating from the company now versus last year and so in a way i would say like last year was about
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making a big play while not being able to back it up just to say you were in the game and this year
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is the realization that they couldn't back it up and they need to start um and that's good i mean
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can't say anything you know about where this will lead and whether it will be enough and whether they
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will execute right but i would say all of this is a sign of these are things that apple absolutely
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needs to do if they're going to do this right don't know if they will but like this seems to me to be on
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sometimes you just don't know the answer you don't know what to do
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uh it does this but every day i have a new set of images that are chosen from those two people so
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that's what i recommend doing go to photos watch face choose shuffle you can choose between people
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or places or cities and you'll get new uh photos every day
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and my recommendation if you're having trouble with that is photos is really weird about when it updates like the
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people that it lists so you could also go into photos and look there at the photo shuffle for lock screens and see
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um if you can you know even if you're just browsing around it may kick it into life
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because it's unclear like i had this happen where like it took a week before it provided me with the people
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who i had starred as my people it's like why would you not prioritize those i don't know if they fix some of that stuff by now but sometimes it just takes time for that to do that
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at least they i haven't tried in ios 26 but in ios 18 uh it was a problem uh as of even a couple of months ago
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uh writes in and says uh my it was actually like there's like 25 a's this person is in our discord uh but i only read five that was five a's
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uh my 79 year old dad has an aging windows laptop which is crashing frequently i've finally convinced him
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that a macbook air would be good because he wants all of his iphone stuff to sync and this has been a constant pain point
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and i'm tired of doing windows tech support my question is should we wait until mac os 26 is released
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so he starts learning mac os with the latest redesign or should i get him the laptop now and we cross that bridge when we get to it
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just get the laptop now first off you don't actually have to update to 26 right away
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and it'll be fine and also having used