Re: The facts show Apple is two generations behind Android in AI (artificial intelligence)

-hh wrote on Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:06:24 -0400 :

While I'm no fan of silly gimmicks (such as what AI appears to mostly be),
for Apple to be two generations behind Google is usually considered bad.

 
That depends on if Google is actually moving in the correct direction.

Since I'm a rather well educated reasonably intelligent well-informed
adult, I will agree with anyone who states a sensibly logical point of view
- which is whether or not Google's AI is the "correct direction".

I think it's a gimmick. A fad. A tool for getting people to pay for a new
search engine (so to speak). A generative search engine perhaps.

Most people who are intelligent can use the existing search engine to
formulate what the generative AI can do - but a lot of people can't do that
(which, after all, is, I think, the appeal to hoi polloi of generative AI.
 

You have to ask why Apple is two generations behind Google (who is not
standing still), where it's the same question to ask why Apple is something
like five generations behind Qualcomm on 5G modem design (who also isn't
standing still).

 
But Apple is using the best 5G chips, because they�re buying them from
Qualcomm.  Do keep in mind that not every last component has to strictly be
created & fabbed in-house.

Again, I agree with any sensibly logical point of view, since I'm only here
to do two things, one of which is to learn & disseminate Apple knowledge.

Apple buys parts from a *lot* of suppliers to Android, such as Samsung
displays. Since Apple lost the GPU market - they buy them from someone too.

The main reason Apple still makes their own CPUs is more for the marketing
aspect than anything else, since most of the Apple trademarked CPUs have
been shown to be unpatchable and hence permanently flawed by design alone.

Why is Apple consistently behind on almost all emergent smartphone tech?
Could it be because Apple doesn't actually spend (for its size) in R&D?

 
Or it could be just Apple's standards for approving a commercial product to
ship are higher than their peers.

I will always agree with someone who makes a logical sensible statement
that they can show is based on actual facts - but I fear you may not
actually have any real facts to back up your strongly held belief system.

Can you name even a single smartphone technology that Apple ships with the
iPhone that is higher quality than its peers over the past, oh, five years?