• RedFox@infosec.pub
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    4 months ago

    Why do companies feel like that have to try and do everything?

    Why can’t you just ‘stay in your lane’ and be good at what you’re good at.

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      4 months ago

      Ever expanding profit requires ever expanding scope until it doesn’t, then you can divest for profit and try again.

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      4 months ago

      A lot of these tech companies got into cars because they viewed vehicles as a new major new computing platform. Especially autonomous vehicles.

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      4 months ago

      They are trying to insure their company survival. Imagine if they didn’t put money into R&D for a car and something happened where, for example, Google produced one or EVs really took off in a big way. Or self-driving cars became a reality.

      They’d be sol.

      So you’ll see companies like apple, meta, etc try a lot of different things as they attempt to read the tea leaves. They are one big tech breakthrough away from being irrelevant.

      I’ve been predicting for a while though that siri will be turned into an AI that runs locally using the metal cores.

      I’m genuinely surprised they haven’t dropped that on us and are focused on VR.

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        4 months ago

        I’ve been predicting for a while though that siri will be turned into an AI that runs locally using the metal cores.

        Especially after seeing the Rabbit R1, Google putting Tensor cores in the pixels, and hearing Apple preach about privacy.

        That is a very astute observation stranger!

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      4 months ago

      With that strategy, there would have been no iPod and therefore no iPhone.

      Hell, there would probably not even been a computer mouse since Rank Xerox would have been focusing on how to make copies of paper.

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      4 months ago

      Well with that mentality Nintendo would be a trading card company and we wouldn’t have Super Mario Galaxy, and my 3rd grader past self has suffered enough without having their favorite Wii game taken away on top of everything else!

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      4 months ago

      Apple started out with desktop computers. So by ‘staying in their lane’, they’d never made ipods, iphones, Apple silicon, earpods and airpods, the watch, etc. I think they had quite the success by diversing themselves.

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        4 months ago

        I’m my head, I was thinking of all those consumer products (phones, pods, pads, earbuds, etc). That is a good reminder they started with business computers.