Like it or not, he's saying that the iPhone as we know it today is ephemeral. Something will replace it.

My observation is that Apple will want to lead that parade.

Will they be intelligent earpods that can connect with satellites? Will the form factor be different? Will some other factor pull the market into another ubiquitous tech device?

Apple cannibalized iPod sales for the success of the iPhone. He''s not ruling out cannibalizing iPhone sales for a successor product. Will be that product be underpinned by "AI"? He's not saying that, either.

Alexa is a popular crutch, and also embryonic. The iPod was sort of like that, too. In ten years, much will have changed.

NO, wait!

The American Bar Association totally endorses this move. Litigation is at the core of the US Economy! Broadcom is ready.

They double-dog dare you to continue to use VMWare!

This is about Customer Service and Support! Perpetual License? We were just KIDDING!! (did you hear that, Wall Street?)

Did say he did.

But he didn't do this in a vacuum, either.

You move mountains one boulder at a time.

Hatch Act on a worldwide scale? Never happens if there's no Justice Dept enforcement.

Oh, wait...

Lineage OS supports only these phones: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.lineageos.org%2Fdev... and eventually, these will likely age-off the list.

Or the batteries will become unobtanium.

Open source will be used in the same way: Suggest products for profit by pimping them. People will trust AI like they trust search engines, indeed like Perplexity is becoming a browser.

You wanted truth, integrity, clear unbiased choices? Not when you're the product.

And yet IBM BORG'd their acquisition of Red Hat.

They can spend all they want, but first, I don't believe they will-- they don't have the money and 2) they fear acquistions becoming brighter than their dull star of periodic market dominance.

IBM Innovation is an oxymoron. They want to get metaphorical oil wells, and keep them spouting for decades upon decades. Brilliant in their minds as everyone likes a long return on investment, except that in the middle of that cycle, innovation is lost, clients must move with their markets and supply chain, and the homogenization of their business units makes them stale old milk.

I wish such evil on no one.

Instead, may his business model drive him into bankruptcy, his house repossessed, and his children become landfill diggers after his wife divorces him, and takes the dog.

Microsoft has to sell their stuff.

And.... human employees are great, and they are human.

One fucking hallucination, and there's a delete key waiting.

None of them have been vetted, although "peer review" is performed on the mechanics. Do educators, the people we hold responsible for teaching/learning agree?

Probably not, but I can't speak for them.

Instead, watch the textbook and learning materials industry go into the ditch. Watch teachers thwart AI because 1) it's not linked to chains-of-authorities and 2) they're going to eventually lose their jobs, and AI becomes responsible for imbuing humanity and character, and it has neither.

Not true, another false meme.

Butt hurt, are you?

Consider that there's far more research than your Fox News memes going on in the US that directly benefits you and those around you. Loss of scientific leadership makes the US a second or third world nation while you're worrying about your fringey fears.

Science leads to products, products often lead to better lives. Soon you'll have your brutalist male urges satisfied, but will buy your products from the EU and China-- who'll have the patents, IP, and wealth.

The motto used to be we're the humans, and in control.

Now the robots are in control, the AI a new taskmaster, evaluator, and the non-human element.

This won't end well.

And there is a reason: At this point in history, it's a bigger yawn than seeing Fonzie on water skis jump a shark.

Only Die.Hard.Fanbois.Will.Care.

There is no need to spend funds on a trip to Mars. We have enormous maladies on the spaceship we're on, called Earth. There is no escape to an uninhabitable world that does us any good. Spend the funds here. We're looking at massive weather events, war, pollution, starvation, and worse. Spend it on what we actually need, not a jolly trip that bears no fruit to enhance the lot of humanity and the current spaceship.