The first thing you should ask yourself what is your motivation?
You wanna be an entrepreneur? Just because? Honestly thats just not smart.
You wanna be rich? Unicorn rich? Honestly thats just not going to happen.
I had the itch to do 'something' but i never just wanted to make a business out of that. But i had plenty of ideas or i'm seeing a lot of niches were you could make it as a normal small it company being independent from others.
I only started to become an entrepreneur when i met a friend who had something i could relate to, a good business idea in a good niche with the potential to make it in a sense of i will be able to pay myself a 6 figure salary while already making a 6 figure salary.
There is a small chance that i might get a little bit more out of that company than a self managed stable job with a good salary (like 100-400k) but thats it.
Honestly the best bet by far is to try to get into big well paying companies like Google etc.
You are at an uni right? Go to hackathons, go to startup meetups, go to accelerators, make sure to be good in something. But pls don't just want to become an entrepreneur just for the sake of becoming a entrepreneur.
The problem ist not that its shit, the problem is that in our world there are a lot of people who can't afford a $1000 laptop and Apple doesn't cater to these people at all.
Smartphones helped here a lot though but are not always an alternative. A young person barly making enough for studing (a person who needs a keyboard).
The M1 chip was a game changer. This is true and for whatever reason, a MacBook Air is at a exceptional price/value point.
But not with a Mac Studio: You can build your 8k super trible all bells and whistles with a lot less money than giving it to apple. The difference is volumne. A Mac Studio is probably 5-10x smaller.
The point is still valid: You do pay a big price for these chips. Apple pushes you to a Mac Book Pro due to RAM.
Its not bad critisism, don't get me wrong. My company laptop is really good but it costs 3k.
The normal consumer market, outside of an Apple ecosystem high price bubble, actually starts a lot lower. YOu can get a normal laptop for 300 while the MacBook Air starts at 1000.
But before the M chip, this was totally different. I would now try to convince people 'if you can afford it, save uup a little bit more and get you an macbook air' i would not have said this a few years back.
Thats often enough not true. They mostly are just integrated
I know the distinction feels very thin but come one, a GPU chips complexity is far beyond a sound or nic chip and i don't think that comparision is fair at all.
You are not adding a network card to your desktop pc to have significant better network.
And they don't even make new soundcards since 2021.
The big hit happened when intel started doing this. It killed the whole category of desktop GPUs.
Audio and NICs are very different though and the Apple GPU integration has nothing to do what happened to Audio and NICs: Apples customer demand GPU power for Image and Video editing, for the retina display and they pay a big price for these chips.
A integrated audio/NIC got optimized away because compute got so much better. iGPUs and co are not compensated through CPU compute but because putting them together makes it cheaper. The iGPU still has normal GPU components.
A M* Chip from Apple is HUGE and f* expensive. If it wouldn't be for people with deep pockets, it would be a lot cheaper to build the hardware yourself with normal GPUs. Mac Studio? 6k vs. same setup without Mac hardware: 4k and less + upgradable etc.
The GenAI Stuff you don't like/hate helps blind people to navigate the world because generating images also allows to analyse images.
There are plenty of other areas which will help a lot of people left and right including you. Cancer research, material research for energy.
Cancer for example can be detected in xrays thanks to GenAI stuff. Its a lot easier to get an x-ray machine somewere around the globe but an expert is hard and we do not have enough radiologists anyway.
Blockchain and NTF are and were stupid. A lot of people knew about this and the hype was more of a news hype because we had nothing else to talk about (until ai came).
I have seen so many really good and helpful ai demos/features internally, its impressive.
With AI / ML we are getting self driving cars, robots (talking, listing, walking), agents etc.
LLMs are not crazy good because they can generate stories, they are crazy good because they are a very very good interface to humans.
Facebooks Segment Anything ml model basically solved segmentation problem. Alpha Fold solved protein folding. Nvidias Omniverse with Robots solved the robot motion problem.
AI is not a hype, AI delivers left and right every week there is something really cool new.
Instead of writing uneducated blog posts or just blindly rant about it, at least try to follow up on AI news, you will be amazed how much it solves. And Until we are seeing ANY slow down or ceiling, until then i do believe that this right now is what the iphone was or the internet just crazier.
Its frustrating that people are not even able to understand AI, Blockchain and NFT good enough to be able to separate them. Just because something gets hyped doesn't mean its the same thing as the other thing which got hyped.
And no you were not able to talk to a computer system as fast and good as you are able to do that today with OpenAIs voice input. And no you never had a system which was able to answer that many questions in such a high quality.
Do you think you are happier in life when you at the top? I tell you a secret, no.
Its for sure better to not stress about stuff like money but your definition of success is not universal.