Greg Lippert on CBS Sunday Morning celebrates 50 years of Apple (2 videos) - 'If it wasn’t a puff piece I agree. I would have asked harder AI questions AND why Cook feels the need to jam his head so far up a pedo’s ass. You don’t have to be adversarial to the admin, I get it, Trump is a narcissist and like a baby needs constant coddling to validate his sense of self-worth. But you don’t have to suckle at the tit quite so hard.'
on CBS Sunday Morning celebrates 50 years of Apple (2 videos) - 'Jonathan, I appreciate your observations and had a similar perception of oddness! Steve always felt lively, imaginative, evolving, intuitive, demanding, inspiring, driving and open. Tim, especially in this interview, comes over as repetitive, stale, flat and static. Culture is nothing flat, static and repeatable, it has to be alive in the here and now.'
on John Gruber: '$599. Not a piece of junk' - 'BTW, this same argument applies to the Vision Pro. Measured in 1984 dollars, $3,500 is peanuts for what you get.'
on John Gruber: '$599. Not a piece of junk' - 'Upvoted and adding. Apple brilliantly avoids the “incumbents” dilemma. Sure, they’ll lose some sales of higher-end Macs, maybe iPads, to the Neo. Apple gains so much more. 1) Taking share from Window, Surface, and Chrome Books. 2) Future sales of higher end Macs to the kids buying (or their parents) buying the Neo. 3) Potential AI Apps running on Neo. 4) Future higher-end Neos. On the last point, today’s Neo has a narrow price and option range. That range will expand upwards, over time, by a lot.'
on John Gruber: '$599. Not a piece of junk' - 'I also think the Neo may well be a boon if the economy worsens or we see a recession. Apple’s ASP might drop slightly if people buy Neos instead of more expensive Mac laptops, but market share could rise even more. People need laptops but Apple now gives them a great one when their finances may be more constrained.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - '@Rodney I’m not happy about this situation, but it is not gratuitous Trump bashing. The attacks on Iran are directly affecting our economy and Apple. Stock prices are sinking not because of bad corporate decisions but because of decisions coming out of the White House. Every morning I check the news to see what fresh hell has been visited upon us by Trump.'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Monday morning, and so far 3 out of 4 posts are not Apple related. PED, we really do need a daily Trump Post so that everyone can get what they want off their chest, and the other posts can remain somewhat Apple related. It could actually be somewhat benign, as in General News of the Day'
on How to steal $9.5 million worth of Apple stuff - 'This blag seems to have been palmed or helped by an associated inside heister mole.'
on How to steal $9.5 million worth of Apple stuff - 'One would think that the market for these goods would be someplace where someone doesn’t check serial numbers as these kinds of goods have plenty of ways to be identified once installed. So domestic data centers would be very vulnerable if found to have stolen chips installed.. Of course there are a lot of stupid people who don’t realize they will get caught. So how do the thieves get there goods out of the country if that is the market they are serving? A lot of stolen cars in the US are shipped out so I expect the same shippers are involved with something like this.'
on This week's Apple trading strategies (3/9-3/13/26) - 'Isn’t Apple manufacturing servers at its Houston facility using Apple silicon? With what we now know, wouldn’t those servers be the perfect AI solution vs buying endless AI tokens from a data center you have no control over? Apple in the enterprise. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?'
on Premarket: Apple is red - 'Index futures are deep in the red this morning as oil prices spike in response to transport challenges in the Persian Gulf and an expanding conflict in the Middle East. Pre-market Apple is trading down $2.32 at $255.14. Today’s trading session begins in about 40 minutes…'
on CBS Sunday Morning celebrates 50 years of Apple (2 videos) - 'To Ben and Greg, Upvoted. Very interesting take on things, although I can’t tell how accurate all the things he talks about is but it seems to make sense to this Luddite. Even with that in mind, both videos probably speak to the reason why Apple was trying to solve its AI problem on its own and was finally forced to partner with someone else when it was taking too long. And, again, if accurate, means that Apple probably won’t be giving up on having its own totally owned solution. It may also be the reason why Apple seems to have been able to retain a large amount of its chip design teams, from memory and correct me if I am wrong about this. Apple would seem to be working on things that would be of interest to chip designers.'
on CBS Sunday Morning celebrates 50 years of Apple (2 videos) - 'Thanks so much for the pro-Apple AI videos! To clarify, when I say Apple “failing at AI,” what I mean is the end-user experience of the personal device being an intimate, personal, trusted advisor (what Apple branded as “Siri” in 2011). This end-user experience is different from the back-end developer infrastructure for creating AI software applications. It goes to the essence of how Steve talked in the early 1980s about the evolution of the personal computer: As a trusted, lifelong friend, confidante & coach. I feel like Google and Perplexity keep moving this “trusted advisor” vision forward, and Apple keeps falling behind. Perhaps there will be a New World Order in the technology stack that will favor Apple going forward. But I remain troubled by why Apple seems to keep falling farther behind over the last 15 years in being the most trusted personal confidante to its own users.'
