Jony Ive confirms he's working on a new device with OpenAI
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Knowing Ive, it’ll be thinner than anybody asked for, have mediocre battery life, and have a charging port on the bottom so you can’t use it while it’s charging because it’s flipped over.
It’s what the leadership at Theranos did.
Theranos's board members are a bunch of army generals with no technical experience.
Ive is an expert in building consumer devices...and that is what he is doing right now with OpenAI.
However, having a bunch of popular influential people working in the same team isn't exactly a recipe for success. But comparing to theranos is a bit unfair.
> Theranos's board members are a bunch of army generals with no technical experience.
OpenAI's board includes Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone.
> Ive is an expert in building consumer devices...and that is what he is doing right now with OpenAI.
Surely, Theranos didn't hire a board of highly qualified doctors and medical professionals?
https://fortune.com/2016/04/07/theranos-adds-startlingly-wel...
In both cases I think the name and the press release is more valuable than the work being done by these famous names. That doesn't mean it's fraud, but it's a gross marketing tactic that sure looks similar to the behavior of fraudsters.
Theranos' weren't majority of biotech.
Theranos never shipped a real product. OpenAI has, and has millions of direct active users plus millions more indirect active users via tech companies building products on top of their API.
Surly anything AI can do it can do via one of these.
On the other hand, they could do OpenAI Android Phone which is cheaper but still requires a ton of cash. I also haven't met many people bullish on OpenAI that they would buy a phone around it.
even Apple built their own smart speaker because an app was too restrictive, and they own the platform!
but I largely agree with you. if they want me to walk around with it, it’s a tough sell.
iPhones didn't even have apps to begin with.
This is often said.
Then when Jobs passed away Ive was left to do his own thing. This led to butterfly keyboard problem, magsafe being removed, less ports, and lots of other things.
Ignoring what the customer wants has always been Apple’s thing, but it can be taken too far. Steve Jobs was a huge fan of magsafe.
Also, you had to cover it with a pillow if you wanted to print via the Mac’s IR port.
You're welcome to disagree with the premise that fewer wires is better. I personally like their opinions but definitely not for everyone.
Now we've reached the conclusion of this discussion with a good old "well that's just like, your opinion, man" I would like to add that the magic mouse is not as popular as their other peripherals. In fact, at least in the office I work in, people would rather use a £5 Amazon special than one of the spare Magic Mice laying around.
the touch bar is not an optional peripheral so I can understand a bit more resentment there. I do however at least see where they were going with it (fn keys are too far from the home keys to be useful, few people use them anymore, we want to integrate touch without smudging screens and requiring awkward wrist angles). They happened to be wrong about most of that in a more objective way, but people act as though it's a decision made with the sole purpose to annoy people, or perhaps a the elites at Apple have become out of touch.
It's the sort of tech that would work much better as "simple" per-key displays you can configure. I imagine in their minds, it wouldn't be too dissimilar from that in the future with the right haptics and maybe some programmatic tactile feedback (for which the tech just isn't there yet).
> Working closely with Jobs during their tenure together at Apple, Ive played a vital role in the designs of the iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and the user interface of Apple's mobile operating system iOS, among other products. He was responsible for the design of major architectural projects including Apple Park and Apple Stores.
It's common for visions to clash. Then both of them are hugely influential and have fuck you money. It is too easy to either of them to walk out on the deal.
His impact on Apple Park has immortalized him for some number of centuries until it is destroyed by earthquake.
Form factors that haven't been explored yet: earrings, broaches, lapel pins (that don't look like microwaves) and belt buckles.
Jony Ive's Life After Apple and His LoveFrom Design Business
I don’t use one but I have followed the company for some time due to their low cost laptops that run Linux (PineBook, PineBook Pro).
https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/
Edit: oh, I see. I automatically assumed the device referenced in the article would be something like those smart home speakers that one can talk to.
Smartphones are the most used device nowadays. A home assistant would not be used most of the times by many that don't stay at home most of the day. If OpenAI wants to get into hardware market it would make sense to enter the biggest market available. Microsoft won't try a third attempt at creating Windows Mobile but it makes sense for them to try again through OpenAI.