No one will catch up as Apple owns their entire design.
MS has to work with Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc. Dell the same.
With Apple owning the entire design their results should make it clear communication overhead is what creates the market fragmentation. In order for all the bean counter fiefdoms to be appeased a laptop gets released that is great BUT 9 hour battery life (out of the box, 6 in 12 months), or 1080p screen, or bad thermal design, or nose camera…
It’s hard enough to align goals in one behemoth let alone half a dozen.
A whole lot of tech products then are designed as Beanie Babies looking to capture attention in the short term, boost quarterly sales, earn bumps for a VP.
Apple is the only consumer gadget company taking the approach of linearly designing the entire stack over time. Everyone else is just looking to get through the holidays right now, respond to the metrics in 2023.
Throwaway to intentionally suggest, to stoke debate not a flame war, “zero software jobs will be safe.”
At the end of the day it’s not about the code shapes, the languages we make, it’s about correct machine state coupled to a context.
Eventually we’ll have a deduplicated data model of sufficient detail and the algorithms that can take a context and render it visually or audibly.
Networked bootstrapping, updating, and healing of the model will be the norm. There will be a hardware I/O kernel and the AI to sample a model with.
This is going to happen because, similar to no one having an obligation to past religious traditions, there is no obligation to your past computing traditions.
It’s going to happen because having programmers recreate code shapes to fidget with machine states is wasteful engineering practice.
Society learns and moves on. It does not sit still and babysit the sensibilities of its past.
Automating engineering is good engineering because it removes complexity and redundancy.
Reality does not care about our old philosophy. We have to be prepared to adapt to reality.
MS has to work with Intel, Nvidia, AMD, etc. Dell the same.
With Apple owning the entire design their results should make it clear communication overhead is what creates the market fragmentation. In order for all the bean counter fiefdoms to be appeased a laptop gets released that is great BUT 9 hour battery life (out of the box, 6 in 12 months), or 1080p screen, or bad thermal design, or nose camera…
It’s hard enough to align goals in one behemoth let alone half a dozen.
A whole lot of tech products then are designed as Beanie Babies looking to capture attention in the short term, boost quarterly sales, earn bumps for a VP.
Apple is the only consumer gadget company taking the approach of linearly designing the entire stack over time. Everyone else is just looking to get through the holidays right now, respond to the metrics in 2023.