Speaking of Mssr. Gassée talking about AI/ML,
Whomever the person who was blacked out but the rest of his/her environment, including the coffee mug, was not – how was that done? Zoom plugin?
That was a cool display of where we’re going with coding for even more & more smart tech.
That was Alexander, and he was backlit wearing dark clothing and drinking from a white mug – probably tea, not coffee (going by his English accent).
Most of the session I had my video turned off, since Donna and I were listening to my iPhone in our family room with the iPhone placed between our two recliners, thus only giving a view of our ceiling. And that’s because our Comcast wifi chose that particular day and time to go down….
After yesterday’s Zoom meeting, I happened to listen to a discussion about the HomePod on the “Accidental Tech Podcast” with Marco Armant (well-known app developer and audio enthusiast)
He too remains a strong fan of what Apple achieved with the HomePod yet, with its discontinuation, ultimately arrived at roughly the same conclusion as Gassée — Apple applied too much engineering into a product that the general public wasn’t willing to dig a bit deeper for.
This is a cold realization as I take the stance that people should uplift their audio appreciation capabilities as that is where the true soul of music lies. To me it’s the genuine underlying reason why the entire AirPods line is so captivatingly successful.
I wonder also if Apple had instead marketed it as total audio for the home WITHOUT the “smarts”, if it might have then appealed to a market that it was better suited to fit.
I’ve already purchased one more and I might get yet one more to attain stereo matching in every location of my home.
Until Apple supports album-focused operations, particularly playlist “album shuffle” on its iOS devices, I continue to call “bulls**t” on claims of how much Apple cares about serious music…
I thought your points were particularily well made. You may have missed my earlier question which also addressed the “necessary stupidity” of Siri. Second question in.
BTW, I very much liked Mr. Gassée‘s response to my question concerning “machine learning”.
We call the Ask-Me-Anything meetings special events. This meeting with Jean-Louis Gassée was really an extraordinary encounter. Thank you to the members of the Apple 3.0 community who joined us for the meeting. What Mr. Gassée shared in just one hour was inspiring, thought-provoking and very informative. For subscribers who didn’t attend the meeting, the video is worth the investment of an hour to view it.
A reminder to my fellow subscribers: The Ask-Me-Anything events are a no-cost, value added benefit. We also have the Apple 3.0 Slack group available which provides for on-going conversations about all things Apple. Simply ask Philip for a no-cost invitation to join the group.
Investors look to the future. So I was interested in Jean-Louis’ answer to the question about risks to Apple over the next ten or twenty years:
“Creeping mediocrity,” he replied.
Values–and how a culture expresses them–interest me. (Sadly, the term ‘DNA’ has become an overworked cliché.) So far, what Steve brought and what Tim sustains have enabled huge success.
As an AAPL long, I’ve come to think of it as an ‘heirloom stock.’ But I remain mindful how ‘greats’ have fallen in the past. (Cue Horace Dediu on disruption.)
Among others, I hope to look to investors here for a collective sense of the evolution of Apple’s culture. For what remains of my lifetime, there may be little risk in the stock. But for those who come after, who knows?
As Rachel Maddow might put it: “Watch this space.”
I should add that I find Nassim Taleb’s work on risk fascinating. (I’ve just begun a re-read of “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder.”) Risk can’t be measured or predicted, Taleb says, but fragility/vulnerability to rare negative outcomes can be measured. A ‘Black Swan’ event may be highly improbable, but it can have huge consequences.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]
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Whomever the person who was blacked out but the rest of his/her environment, including the coffee mug, was not – how was that done? Zoom plugin?
That was a cool display of where we’re going with coding for even more & more smart tech.
Most of the session I had my video turned off, since Donna and I were listening to my iPhone in our family room with the iPhone placed between our two recliners, thus only giving a view of our ceiling. And that’s because our Comcast wifi chose that particular day and time to go down….
“Remember 1968?”
“Long Live The HomePod!”
Righteous, Brother Romeo.
After yesterday’s Zoom meeting, I happened to listen to a discussion about the HomePod on the “Accidental Tech Podcast” with Marco Armant (well-known app developer and audio enthusiast)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accidental-tech-podcast/id617416468?i=1000514386339
(scrub in to the 31:11 mark)
He too remains a strong fan of what Apple achieved with the HomePod yet, with its discontinuation, ultimately arrived at roughly the same conclusion as Gassée — Apple applied too much engineering into a product that the general public wasn’t willing to dig a bit deeper for.
This is a cold realization as I take the stance that people should uplift their audio appreciation capabilities as that is where the true soul of music lies. To me it’s the genuine underlying reason why the entire AirPods line is so captivatingly successful.
I wonder also if Apple had instead marketed it as total audio for the home WITHOUT the “smarts”, if it might have then appealed to a market that it was better suited to fit.
I’ve already purchased one more and I might get yet one more to attain stereo matching in every location of my home.
Amen Romeo…“Long Live The HomePod!”
An excellent enhancement to being a Apple 3.0 subscriber.
I thought your points were particularily well made. You may have missed my earlier question which also addressed the “necessary stupidity” of Siri. Second question in.
BTW, I very much liked Mr. Gassée‘s response to my question concerning “machine learning”.
“Creeping mediocrity,” he replied.
Values–and how a culture expresses them–interest me. (Sadly, the term ‘DNA’ has become an overworked cliché.) So far, what Steve brought and what Tim sustains have enabled huge success.
As an AAPL long, I’ve come to think of it as an ‘heirloom stock.’ But I remain mindful how ‘greats’ have fallen in the past. (Cue Horace Dediu on disruption.)
Among others, I hope to look to investors here for a collective sense of the evolution of Apple’s culture. For what remains of my lifetime, there may be little risk in the stock. But for those who come after, who knows?
As Rachel Maddow might put it: “Watch this space.”