John Gruber nails it in a recent Daring Fireball post. He refers to a news item quoting incoming Apple CEO John Ternus saying Apple has always shipped products, not technologies. Steven Levy writing in Wired ripped Ternus for not laying out a plan to ship AI. But AI is a technology. Apple will continue to add AI into products that we will find useful and enjoyable.
Check my preceding blog post about “Physical AI” humanoid robots at the upcoming Automate show. Looking at that market, A3 president Jeff Burnstein told me that the developers are throwing out a technology hoping users will find a use. The major AI companies are doing the same thing. Flailing around searching for a market to justify billion-dollar investments.
I was taught, and still believe, that product development means looking for potential user pain points and solving them with a product probably using the latest technologies.
