Apple hasn’t made anything insanely great since AirPods. Why? Blame AI

What was the last technological product you bought who really excited you? If you are like macalope … Well, God helps you. Seriously, rear hair alone is enough to have a miserable experience. Of course, the small birds that are sitting on the back of the macalopian help with the insects, but in terms of summer heat …

Sorry, gets out of the track.

If you are something like this horned observer, the chances of your latest purchase of really exciting technology have not been made by Apple or any other major technology business, unless it is some time ago. For macalope money, the latest new and really exciting thing he bought at Apple was the original AirPods, which he obtained in 2016. According to Math, nine years ago.

Now, it’s not like its peak, Apple came out of the entirely new products every two years. The iPod was released in 2001 and the iPhone was released until six years later. Experts, of course, thought that Apple should produce a new product in the iPhone every year after that, but it was a ridiculously unreasonable wait. Of course, changing the world every year is sustainable.

None of this means that Apple and other large technological companies do not yet make beautiful products, and Apple has delivered several entirely new products from Airpods. Macalope loves its homepod mini, it does not love It is as if he likes his old Apple products. The pro vision is a beautiful device, it is just out of the price range of most people.

Hey, it is almost inevitably a problem when companies grow. They are rooted and want to protect their current income flows rather than working on new ones. This is why the macalope is so litigious about its very lucrative franchise in Mayonnaise Blender.

You have surely heard of it. These places where you go and they have all the ingredients right there with mixers, and you can mix your own mayonnaise?

No? You and myself? Seriously? They are in shopping centers from top to bottom of corridor i-95. Eh. I assume that we will have to increase the advertising budget.

But these days, it seems worse.

Now you probably ask: “UGH, are we going to talk about AI?” Again?“Listen, this is not the fault of the macalope that we have to talk about almost every week. If that did not represent him, he would talk about all the different garnishes that you can put in a cup full of delicious mayonnaise to make a healthy and delicious treat. (Warning: not healthy. In addition, some criticisms indicate that it is not delicious either.)

These days, the venture capital has largely set up like self-proclaimed referees whose technological startups will be funded and which will not. Having “obtained theirs”, they now intend to make sure that the playing field is a slope that slides everything in their pockets.

So, yes, this is how things like AI turn into required technologies. Even if it is especially useful in certain cases of use, it must be pushed in everything in order to maximize the investment in VC. Having made a bunch of rich people, Wall Street now takes the floor of these companies as an evil and punishes companies that are not queuing.

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All this despite the fact that it is bad for the environment, it is built from stolen equipment, this often does not work properly and most consumers simply do not want it. However, in a way, we are locked in a multi -year cycle to try to get a sort of return so that the rich geniuses who imposed it on us were even more rich.

Increasingly, large companies seem to do technology that satisfies investors rather than customers. That is to say, of course, upside down.

Apple is at a crossroads. Traditionally, it is well done by translating its own course, often against the winds of group thought. The problem is now that group thinking is so omnipresent, it is able to harm during Apple’s action when the company does not take place. Apple always does good things that venture capital / the Wall Street machine does not appreciate, like its continuous accent on accessibility and intimacy. But it’s Rush (and Miss) to jump on the AI train was a misstep.

Apple still has a lot of products in the pipeline. Headsets of cheaper vision, this homepad, more than one foldable and more device, if you believe rumors. Perhaps one or more of them “will surprise and delight”. But lately, the new most pleasant technology in macalope comes from places other than Cupertino.