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from relay this is connected episode 591 today's show is brought to you by century insta360 and fandera i'm your keynote chairman federico vittici and i'm joined as always by the annual chairman stephen hackett hello stephen hello sir hello hello we are the co-chairman duo the chairman
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duo that's right it's all you need all you need in life are two chairmen that's right um but we are also joined by mike man of the people man of the people mike i'm just a regular guy just a pauper i'm just a boy i'm just a boy looking at the audience and asking them to love me you know that's me yeah whole thing they do love you we'll get into this but you could become a keynote chairman again very soon ah i don't know
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we'll see we'll see about that we'll see uh we will get there though but first tell us uh the newest installment federico of what's happening at open claw
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ah yes open claw is now owned not clear essentially the the creator of open claw peter steinberger has joined open ai and with peter open claw and it sounds to me like some of the core contributors to the team the project is now part of open ai and open ai has committed to keeping the project open source and open and independent
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um but uh peter is now an open ai employee and it's not clear to me like the logistics of this like the deal the deal was not disclosed and it's not clear to me whether peter will actually work in the u.s or will work remotely uh i don't know but essentially open claw now an open ai project um and i just had a few thoughts to share about this um so over the past few days nothing has really changed in the sense that
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open claw is still open claw is still open claw is still open claw is still open source and it's still you know you can use clawed uh or any other model with open claw they're not at least for now they're not forcing you to use um open ai models which i did by the way i did try open ai models with open claw they are terrible um uh and they have released updates over the past few days everything seems pretty normal but i had a few a few sort of high level comments on this just general comment with
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be like it's an insanely good get for open ai and a fumble for anthropic uh purely from a pr and developer goodwill perspective i think this is a this is a masterful pr move from open ai who you know even if they paid i don't know peter i don't know 500 million dollars like i'm just making up numbers
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up numbers if they paid in 500 million dollars what are we doing what is happening i mean i mean we have heard crazier numbers from the ai
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industry uh acquiring people essentially over the past year so i don't know about any amount of money i think
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what this buys you is attention from the community and a lot of developer good standing right now at a time
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where anthropic is kind of i don't know if you guys are keeping an eye on this but like anthropic is kind of
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fumbling the the the whole developer ecosystem story right now um how does that happen i feel like two weeks
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ago they were like the second coming of christ with like clode code clode code clode claw whatever it's
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called open cloud yeah the problem is that anthropic is more and more turning into the apple of it all
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um the latest thing so first of all the fact that they sent you know the seasoned deceased and the
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letters like obviously kind of made sense they had to do that you can't not do that yeah but it kind of
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felt like in some parts of the community kind of felt like punching down at a guy that was just doing
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something cool federico you know i get it people don't understand how copyright works but i get it
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people think you could just choose not to excel your copyrights like no if you do that you'll lose
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it like you're trying to get it you'll just lose it the real fumble happened two days ago where they
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updated the terms of service for cloud code to uh very clearly prohibit using your cloud subscription
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or cloud code subscription access with external agents oh that's not good is it and
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and and they also wrote something in the terms of service that said you cannot create commercial
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projects based on the agent sdk the agent sdk is something that anthropic itself makes and releases
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and developers were reading the terms of service and they were like i'm sorry are you saying that you
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make an sdk but you cannot build commercial projects with this sdk and so the whole mix of anthropic
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first of all not getting behind this project and then banning accounts of people that were using
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their subscriptions with open claw and then updating the terms of service to state that very clearly
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and multiple anthropic employees on social media kind of dodging the questions from people being like
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can you be extremely clear and tell me if i can use my cloud code or cloud subscription to use open claw
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and they were just repeating this boilerplate text from the terms of service like it's not a good look
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and I think OpenAI is doing all the right things at the moment.
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They're saying publicly, yes, you can use your ChatGPT subscription with OpenClaw.
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um and of course it comes with an with some nice benefits like
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maybe you will be able to take pictures and they will automatically show up in the
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photos app instead of having to do the weird import dance
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uh it's gonna be the same siri that you can use on your phone so in theory with the same app intents and integration with home kit you know all of those system integrations dictation uh apple music like all of those things will just carry over from the phone to the glasses which is exactly what i want they don't have to be extremely innovative for me to be useful they just need to be the apple version of something that is proven to be nice and proven to be useful but limited because it's made by another company
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so yeah i don't really want them to do anything extravagant just make the same thing but made by apple that's it
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i don't know how they do it but met now there's been an update with the meta app and now the photos do just show up in your photos library i don't know how they're doing that um but that was something that happened relatively recently i think now they just show up somehow
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uh but yeah i i want this product i think the sticking point for me and i think i will be very keen uh is will they look good
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yeah yeah yeah there's reporting that they are looking at making their own frames
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yeah which is compelling you know meta has gone and made partnerships and i think german says that apple
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looked at that and maybe they will do it but they are also looking at their own frames
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i think the big thing it for this for this category to take off and be really mainstream
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you forget the privacy and technology angles like just the the looks of it it'd be a lot of options
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right not everyone wants to be shoehorned into the same three frame styles and um i think that is
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i think i think they're working towards that right i mean you got the you got the meta oakley's i mean
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how cool do you want to be in 2003 but um it's got to be accessible in terms of fashion and right now
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i'm just not sure there's enough optionality there yeah you know you know who wears glasses
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steven lemay oh yeah good stuff good stuff this is my big concern right i think i think meta and google
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have made the right choices where they're working with existing brands that make glasses that are
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considered to be good looking mm-hmm this is not apple's thing yeah and i would be worried that
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they're like we made this one yeah it's the apple glasses and they're aluminum like whatever they are
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right like it german actually calls out that there's some acrylic options too which is nice or like they're
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going to use acrylics and i'm sure they're going to do a good job but it's like my concern would be
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the apple watch company yeah right where it's like here is you know it's like there is one of these but
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it comes in a bunch of different colors it's like that's not what i would be looking for and i think
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the the cheat code that meta unlocked was ray-ban right like they were able to everybody knows what
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ray-bans look like and accepts them and thinks they look good so they are able to just put their
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technology in that existing already accepted design and i think it's going to be i'm going to and also
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the ray-bans and the oakleys and whatever they look like the glasses that exist right so you can kind of
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wear them and people don't it's it's less of a visual stigma than say something like a google glass right which is
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obvious what you were wearing and the meta products they're hidden
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will apple's glasses look like the computer glasses yeah like they're going to look like apple's glasses so you're not
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going to feel like you could hide them in a way which i do think is an important thing to people like that
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they don't yeah but i don't know we get by of our smart watches so maybe it's not so much of a concern
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but i do think it's different when these things are in your face 24 7 oh for sure
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up next we have the smarter more useful airpods airpods this one with cameras this one i don't get
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this one i don't get yeah this one i really don't get so the idea of putting cameras in airpods
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what will those cameras see exactly and follow-up question have they tested this with people who have
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long hair i struggle to imagine where you could put cameras in airpods that are not sticking out too
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much and how they can reliably see the outside world without again sticking out too much or being covered
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by hair i don't get it how long is steve lemay's hair not that long oh boy i mean you've got
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to assume like common sense prevails and they have done that test right oh yeah like they must they
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have done right they must have but i also cannot conceive of what this product looks like or how it
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works like i was doing some very basic googling i got very confused earlier of like well actually
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that's not true i was doing some googling earlier to try and understand can infrared cameras see
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through hair the problem is all of those searches are can they see through clothes which is terrible but
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that's all you can read oh i could find in like 15 minutes of googling it's just different reddit threads
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of people asking that question uh which is very uncomfortable and so i ended up just backing out of that
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research but that's the thing that i'm wondering is like is there some kind of technology that would
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be able to perceive that or they just say these work good people when they put their hair up
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which is not an exciting product but also i don't think i want cameras on my airpods anyway i don't
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i don't think that that's going to make my airpods a better product in any way that i would care about i think
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it's most likely going to make the product worse where i would be if i really wanted a camera to
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see my world all the time i would want to go to steven's third product dependent more than i would
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want cameras on my airpods yeah the the pendant i think is the idea is tainted by humane right they they
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sort of messed up this part of the this category of products for a lot of people there is something
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very funny about apple exploring this and if they did it and it were successful where humane
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failed because a lot of people don't like the people who read humane
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yeah i just i think having something so visible is just a big ask and and i think it kind of has the
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google glass problem where it's right like it it is what it looks like right where smart well-done smart
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glasses you don't really they sort of blend in i i agree with everything federico said about
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cameras and airpods i just don't think that's super super viable idea but something like this like you're
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gonna know that's what it is right and that i think is a big thing to overcome i'm just not sure that
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that they could swing that yeah you're gonna see somebody with some kind of pendant some kind of pin
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and know that potentially they're being recorded and there there's a uh a camera built in which is
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look there's an argument to be made for the fact that now we live under the assumption that we could
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always be recorded right and this this argument was stronger 15 years ago right uh that's why google
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glass was so early to to to to the market and why it was so contentious when it came out but there's still
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what i think is the crux of the problem is how is the act of recording if you see somebody actively
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recording that they're holding up a phone with their hands and they're recording you you can see the act
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itself and it's obvious that it's happening what's creepy here is that this thing is just
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hanging on your neck or pinned to your clothes right and it's passive recording that's what i think makes
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it creepy potentially and why there's there could be a dissonance between apple the privacy company
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selling you a product that can passively record people around you at the expense of their privacy
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right that's that's i think from my perspective the difference uh the seeing somebody with their
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phone actively recording you versus somebody just has a thing on their jacket that is recording you and
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you don't know whether or not that's happening because it's happening potentially or not in the
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background mm-hmm i just i kept thinking about you're getting ready in the morning right most of us have
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our phones and apple watches and maybe we have airpods in our bag or our pockets and then you add this
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thing so you got four things right it's a lot of stuff um i just wonder like you know the watch is
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very successful now it's the wrong place for a camera i think um you don't want to be like holding
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your arm out all the time to record stuff but it's like they already have a successful wearable and why not
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make that more capable in these areas like uh i think it's mostly placement right it's that you don't know
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where someone's hand is going to be at any given moment but if it's a if it's glasses or airpods or
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a pendant or something you know where the hardware is going to be you can design it for that sort of
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rough placement on the body and you know i'll be talking to you with my hands in my pockets and the
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watch under a jacket or something it's people go to the watch it's like hey yeah this is like they
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already have this you should build into it but i don't know if they can overcome some of those design
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issues yeah i think this product and the cameras in the airpods for apple specifically they are products
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in search of a problem because there are things that this type of technology can do right like i think
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more and more people now are using some kind of service app tool device whatever to record their zoom
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calls and give them transcripts and and meeting notes at the end right yeah so that's like a good
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thing like fine that works so you could imagine maybe doing that kind of thing in person with a meeting
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that you're having but the thing is i haven't seen apple being successful in that similarly this like
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seeing the world right that's visual intelligence does anybody use visual intelligence
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i don't again it's not a product that i have seen apple be successful in so it's like great you're
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going to give me a device that i can speak to all the time also your your assistant sucks right now and
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everybody knows that right so all of these products of like we're talking about now trying to imagine a
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world in which we would use them or not but right now we have seen zero success from this company and
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being able to provide an experience that would power these products like if we get in a year from now and like
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the siri on my phone is so good that like i'm talking to it all the time super helpful and i could use it to
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record things for me and like fantastic but i just don't i struggle to understand what i would use this for
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like i just don't i can't see it because this they've not shown me that they're capable of
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doing anything in this world and i don't think the hardware is what's missing right like i don't i don't
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think it's oh you can't see it because you don't have the apple pendant no i can't see it because apple
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intelligence doesn't exist like two years after it was supposed to have existed so going back to what
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you were saying at the beginning steven it's like we're just now pinning more hardware on top of a
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software that that doesn't exist for them yet and it's like you've really got to hope that they've got
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it working somewhere but all of the reporting says that they don't so they're really putting all their
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carts before the horse now with all this stuff and and i just don't yeah i don't know i just don't know
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yeah it's they're in a tricky spot here right and it in some ways this is a story that's kind of been
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hanging around apple for a long time right that the hardware is great but software lets it down i mean
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see how many uh additions of federico's ipad os reviews over the years right um the ipad pro is great
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you know the ipad air 2 why is it so powerful and you can only do these things with it right we've
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talked about that a long time this feels just like a newer version of that and i know that the ai tools
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have bounced around a lot within apple right it's been well reported that some people were in charge
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of it they're gone it was like two teams at one point like okay now it seems like you're moving in
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one direction you've got craig federighi running it you're using gemini for the models but you're building
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your own features on top of it like if they still can't get it right after this hopefully final
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realignment like i just i don't know like what happens after this if this doesn't work um are you
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going to continue to spend time and money building products that will never see the light of day
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because the software that needs to run them isn't available to you like that's not that's not a
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great situation to be in and i just it really feels like we're racing towards a breaking point
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with that and kind of a new way with some of this stuff yeah it's like that that world is fine if you
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want to just keep making computers that can run other people's software on them right yeah but if you
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decide you want to make smart glasses and a smart pendant and cameras in your earphones you have to be
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able to power this power those things with the software like and it seems like apple's not content
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with just being what many people like many analysts are like apple can just be the place where everybody
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else has their ai right like it's like a ben thompson said that a bunch and many others it's like that is
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true if they were content to continue just making laptops and phones but they're clearly not content to
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just continue making laptops and phones so they have to get the other part of it right even if it
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means partnering with someone that's fine but at the moment we're just not seeing there's just no
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evidence of that yeah yep i don't envy trying to solve it that's for sure yeah you got to be so
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annoyed if you're in the hardware teams right oh yeah you got to be like furious furious like this is
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gonna this must be becoming a bigger and bigger problem for them what happens when the hardware
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chiefs the ceo yeah he gets really angry he gets real angry yeah and at what point do people start
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turning on craig federighi over the stuff oh well
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people like us who pay attention right would say would be able to point to he's only been in control of
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this for like six months yeah but the like i said this is just another chapter of the same book yeah
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exactly but like so the thing is well we look to the 27 releases right i feel like if they haven't
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got this sorted out for the 27 operating systems then we can be like well craig you've had time now
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you know now what are we doing it's gonna be a very interesting year i think i think 26 is gonna be
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just full of full of fun things to talk about and uh we'll be here talking about them together that's nice
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yeah i'm more excited about us than apple and ai which is not a high bar to you know for sure but still
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