Apple has been quiet about ChatGPT. Now Tim Cook says its hefty $22.6 billion research spend is down to generative AI.::The company’s research and development spending hit $22.61 billion for the year so far, a figure $3.12 billion higher than this time last year.

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    2 years ago

    You said

    But what the iPhone did was put it all into an attractive package that worked really well with Apple’s services.

    And where is the BlackBerry design now. The iPhone design isn’t just an “attractive package.” Back then, there were phones with a stylus, clamshells/sliding designs, and full keyboards. Now any modern smartphone is based off the original iPhone design.

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        The iPhone transformed the world. Blackberry still innovativated Business phones but did not have the impact the iPhone had.

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            People on this app get personal so quickly its not fun. Been here a week and more hate hit me than in 12 years of reddit. Calm tf down.

            Blackberry was not a smartphone in my opinion. You are right with the rest and you can consider blackberry a smartphone if you want to. We can have different opinions.

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                    A smartphone integrates a camera, a phone, a gps device and internet as well as being a phone and enabled communication by text, video and audio.

                    A device that combines all of this may have existed before but they failed in the fight for adoption by the masses. Innovation is theorized:

                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

                    What you need to make inventions into innovation is to make it accessible to people who expect products to just work. Innovation always faces resistance. The people who don’t want any change will always fight new stuff while early adopters will always try new things. The people in the middle are key. UX is a big part but also hardware and software that works without the need for tinkering is essential.

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        2 years ago

        Owned an LG Prada. It was really only similar in photos.