re: #182 silverdolphin

I generally agree (although the App store came out later as Jobs had to be convinced to include it. A nice example of how he was often not very prescient but would be convinced by facts to change).

We can have a discussion all day about innovation (and I think that might be fun and interesting. Such as Proposed: one of the biggest creative things Apple did to provide for its success was moving to RISC chips a long, long time ago.) but my point here was that Apple has a history of defining and remaking the marketplace - the Bondi Blue iMac did that, the iPod did that, the iPhone did that, the iPad did that, the App store did that, Services did that, etc.

I think it may well happen again with ML this summer. Because really, only Apple has the technology in all its devices to run many ML models on the device without needing huge server farms. It will all depend on if they really can redefine the marketplace once again. Think of what a lot of creative., small developers could do with such ML models on an iPhone.

Yet the same general theme of these products is the one that goes back to the Apple II and original Mac: convenience. A crystallization of existing market trends into a single, one-size-fits-all product that appeals to users who want something they can just turn on and run with. You bought your kid an iMac because it was a cheap pre-built that worked right out of the box but wasn’t another “beige box” like the ones they used at school. You bought an iPod because you didn’t need to buy a separate Flash card for storage and it came with iTunes that let you organize and (eventually) download music in a safer fashion than Napster or Limewire. You got an iPhone because it had a bigger screen than other smartphones but also games and work apps that benefited from a touchscreen. The iPad was an iPhones/iPod Touch on steroids, all the same apps and more than could use an even bigger screen while also letting you exploit that new “streaming video” business. And so on and so forth, every new product aimed at making things easier and more user-friendly over the competition.