Apple accelerates hiring for its home robotics projects

In other words what Apple is saying, 'we have nothing new to offer you, so here is another, time-wasting, later-thinking feature: add robotics to (stop me if you have already guessed it) iPhone, iPad etc.' 
This is the companion to let's extend the lifespan of our existing and tired devices, iPhone, iPad by making them foldable. 
99.9% of iPhone, iPad users want a foldable device, as much as they want a book light and electric toothbrush added to their Apple devices. 

Apple is turning out more and more like Google. Investing their assets in failed products and features: Vision Pro; Robotics; Foldable, AR Glasses, Robotic Desk Lamp which they then promptly proceed to cancel like the Apple Car. Or the latest, Apple Intelligence with multiple sites offering (and recommending) ways to turn it off as a time waster of little or no value. 

This is called spinning your wheels when you have nothing new and revolutionary to offer. 

My guess is that the AI Boom will crash by mid-2025 as a failed experiment in 'how to leverage trillion troves of old, rubbish data into a useful generative AI'. Forget predictive, that is not even worth mentioning at this stage it is such an crazy illusion about as realistic as Canada becoming the 51st State. 

Do not discount the benefits that robotic and assistive devices and applications that Apple has already made and continues to make to bring to not only people with mobility issues, but to the general public as well. Things that may seem insignificant to some people can be life enhancing or life changing to others. Glass half full.

Pema said:

This is the companion to let's extend the lifespan of our existing and tired devices, iPhone, iPad by making them foldable. 
99.9% of iPhone, iPad users want a foldable device, as much as they want a book light and electric toothbrush added to their Apple devices. 

This is called spinning your wheels when you have nothing new and revolutionary to offer. 

I love it when I can't tell if a rant has been generated by AI or a psych patient off their meds.

Apple has not announced any foldable products. Based on sales of foldables over at Samsung, they aren't likely to, either -- maybe (MAYBE) a foldable iPad someday..

Have you looked at the price of Samsung's foldables? I get the feeling you have not.

Of the top 10 smartphones shipped in 2024, Samsung had three models in that list -- the Galaxy A15 at #4, the Galaxy A15 5G at #8, and the S24 Ultra at #9. All the other models in the top 10 were iPhones. The Galaxy Fold was not in the top 10 field at all.

Why doesn't the Galaxy Fold sell well? Because its price makes even Apple blush. Starts at $2000. The best-selling Galaxy A15 models are best sellers because they retails for around 10 percent of the Fold's price -- it's a good basic phone for cheapskates, and half the cost (and half the features) of an iPhone SE.

Other than folding -- which is not revolutionary, flip phones had that down two decades ago -- what's "new and revolutionary" about any Samsung phone?

Seems to me they are the ones "spinning their wheels" -- apart from the broken merry-go-round that is your mind, that is.

The iPhone WAS the revolution. Go back and look what phones were around before the iPhone was introduced, and what happened immediately after that. Hint: Steve Jobs even made a chart to show you!

There is nothing wrong with iterating and incrementally improving a revolutionary product, which is exactly what Apple does, which copy-machine Samsung faithfully follows AFTERWARDS. Oh wait, except for the Samsung S-Pen -- an "innovation" so popular that no current model includes or supports it. And don't get me started on Windows. ...

If you are "tired" of Apple products, find something clearly superior in an all-around sense, and report back. In the meantime ... get back under your bridge, troll.

chasm said:

Pema said:

This is the companion to let's extend the lifespan of our existing and tired devices, iPhone, iPad by making them foldable. 
99.9% of iPhone, iPad users want a foldable device, as much as they want a book light and electric toothbrush added to their Apple devices. 

This is called spinning your wheels when you have nothing new and revolutionary to offer. 

I love it when I can't tell if a rant has been generated by AI or a psych patient off their meds.

The iPhone WAS the revolution. Go back and look what phones were around before the iPhone was introduced, and what happened immediately after that. Hint: Steve Jobs even made a chart to show you!

There is nothing wrong with iterating and incrementally improving a revolutionary product, which is exactly what Apple does, which copy-machine Samsung faithfully follows AFTERWARDS. Oh wait, except for the Samsung S-Pen -- an "innovation" so popular that no current model includes or supports it. And don't get me started on Windows. ...

If you are "tired" of Apple products, find something clearly superior in an all-around sense, and report back. In the meantime ... get back under your bridge, troll.

Clearly Mr Chasm you are an elderly person living in a nursing home with an advanced case of Alzheimer's. Let's look at some of the slobbering, blubbering rubbish you have written. 

1. iPhone was the revolution. Obviously in your advanced mental fog you have forgotten how long ago that was and how many years Apple has been steadily milking that cow. Let me remind you (and it is quite easy to remember, look at the ads in The Daily Senior for the iPhone: Sixteen). btw that cow is now totally emaciated and about to be turned into leather - it is that old!
2. There is nothing wrong with iterating and incrementally improving a revolutionary product. Agreed. But for how long before it clearly becomes the only product that Apple has to offer to generate massive revenue. The rest does not even come close. 
3. Samsung. If you follow this forum - which in your case means nothing, because once you do, you promptly forget it - I have repeatedly written to say that Samsung's foldable phones are collecting dust at all three retailers that I visit. But Apple in its self-righteous way believes that it can reinvent the form factor and generate massive sales out of it. Apple has done it with the iPad - not the first tablet, HP had one in the late 90s (that's the venerable printer company from Palo Alto  :D).
4. I am not tired of Apple products. I am a little fatigued at watching Apple under Cook (a brilliant manager) turn out yet another phone that does basically the same as what the first iPhone did: make calls, take pictures and text. If any other company did that everyone would be groaning and run for the hills. 
5. My point is where is the revolutionary stuff to turn the industry on its head, like in the days of Jobs? And please, please do not tell me Apple Intelligence. I turned it off on the first day. It is nothing more than trawling through troves of old data and using algorithms to farm out half-intelligible (generative) answers. If that has you stoked then I would suggest that you put down those girlie magazines - you will harm yourself. 

Finally Mr Chasm, why don't you reach out for the meds before harshly critiquing someone's else post. 

Have the debate, but keep it friendly. Maybe insult the ideas rather than the person.