Manton Reece:

To his later point about wireless networking, it’s true that wireless enabled a whole bunch of new mobile apps. But AI is not just a supporting technology. It’s inseparable from the new products that it enables. Makes sense to build new devices around AI assistants in particular.

I don’t see it myself. I think people like using their phones too much for a complete wholesale replacement. If I could take the tiller of the Ship of Theseus for a moment, I reckon if it does come to pass, it’d be closer to what happened to Ethernet: Apple replaces the AppKit layer with a whole new...

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@lmika Replacing so many fundamentals is difficult. Just like the iPod never evolved into an iPhone. It was a completely new product instead. (Whether anyone can pull this off for AI, I don’t know…)

@manton Maybe so, but I think any new product that Apple comes up with has to have the same sort of interaction as the phone. I just can’t see people going for something like the Humane AI pin, without any sort of screen. Maybe smart glasses would work, if they could pull it off.