a waitlist in november for a feature they “announced” 6 months ago…?

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The contradiction of Steve Jobs is fascinating. His last move was to personally lobby to hire Dag Kittlaus and Siri team. His successors simply milked his complicated brilliance as a leader and manager. An old echo of the birth and death of entrepreneurial capitalism period from the 19th and early 20th century

Shareholder capitalism forces this. AI features are the hyped narrative to which all money began to flow. By not offering AI features, Apple started to lose value as people sold shares to invest in other companies claiming to have AI products and features. The problem is, for most of these companies, most of these features are more gimmicky than useful. Apple had been leading the way in truly useful, under the surface features, and they should have stayed on that course. Instead they have to promise something that’s neither ready nor what people even value, because it’s what shareholders value.