What Apple's past purchases tell us about their future products
Carolina Milanesi, writing for Techpinions:
She goes through Emotient, LearnSprout, Flyby Media, LegbaCore, Carpool Karaoke, Turi, Gliimpse, Tuplejump, and Indoor.io. One of the parts that sticks out to me most, though, is this:
There's an ongoing thread in the community that Apple is somehow late, behind, or hamstrung when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (MI). No one with any actual knowledge of Apple's AI/ML efforts thinks this, of course, but because Apple has been so tight-lipped in the past, competitors putting it center-stage in 2016, made that the easy if pessimistic take.
Tim Cook let something slip last year, though, about how Apple AI was already doing things like improving battery life.
When you think about the stack Apple controls, from interface down to silicon, it makes Siri literally only the tip of the iceberg. What's buried in the chips, I think, will turn out to be even more important over the next few years.
The rest of Carolina's list is just as interesting. Give it a read.
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