Many people may not remember the "tablet revolution" of this period. Tons of consultants all raced to own and carry these things. They ran windows and worked fine but it just wasn't their time.
First of all if you are going to talk about valuation then that should be included here. And Google has always been terrible at developing and managing products. The list is too long to begin writing down. One funny example is the Pixel. I had a meeting with a slew of Google managers regarding mobile strategy (maps, reservations) and every single one of them had an iPhone. I doubt any of them ever even tried a Pixel. Same with the dozens (hundreds?) of software products that have died off or languished over the past 20 years.
It reminds me of how Ford started and owned the market, then GM became dominant by offering different colors, models, and styles that would appeal to the market segment that wanted a car but not the model T.
Other companies like BMW are doing very well with electric models because they are focused on delivering the same "BMW experience" in electric models.
As far as I can tell the 3 and the Y are decent vehicles but no longer illicit the kind of emotion that excites a purchase. I don't get the cybertruck at all in terms of product/market fit. Seems like an "Edsel moment" to me.
I think this hits the nail on the head, especially longer term. It's hard to compete with this level of low-cost production with steadily improving specs. Raspberry Pi seems caught in the middle with getting more powerful and expensive in a market that wants either very powerful/expensive or good enough/supercheap. Even a pretty full "desktop" mini computer R7/32MB etc is down to $300 and change. If RAPI files for an IPO I'll be keen to see what kind of margins they are generating.
I am doing some work on this anonymous proxy space as it's related to AI data collection. There are three big players and apparently NetNut is one of them. Has anyone used this one or one of the others which I think are BrightData and "Oxy" but don't know that name?
As my eyes get older I need a brighter and higher resolution display. I use external monitors but like to be able to work while traveling or sitting in an easy chair sometimes. To make matters worse I like a lot of memory and a numpad. That makes it hard to find a good machine at a decent price. The high end Samsung seems to check all the boxes but it's expensive ($3K) and I've never owned one so wonder if I'd like the keyboard, etc. The Thinkpads are good but the mix of light/high resolution/numpad is not that easy to find.
The maintenance budget the central administrative system at IBM in 1985 was $4B or (about $9.6B in current dollars.) The idea of moving something like this to the cloud is hard to comprehend. Even if it could be done it would take years and cost maybe $100B. And what would be the ROI versus building new applications or businesses. These are business critical systems built to run in a specific environment, it is very hard to justify moving them to another platform.
This is an interesting way to do this. I've been using Sublime lately and it's been okay but I need some organization. Does this allow something like "diary [name] [text] where you can add text to any diary with that name and if there is none it creates a new one? I will look at this in more detail next weekend when I am off from work.
The downfall of many LLM approaches seems to be the "black box" nature of the output. Regulators are demanding more transparency in how these systems generate content. Could this be a credible answer?
I agree that the nature of the algorithm allows it to generate false results which would not be acceptable in many domains. But I think there is tremendous potential to improve what you might call the "baseline" of what information and diagnosis is available. There are great doctors out there for sure but in many places there are close to zero doctors, or worse, bad doctors. While it's a very complex domain there are much simpler parts of it. A child with a cancer tumor in their brain is a very different case than someone who has a rash and a headache. There's a great deal of regulation as well that will come into play here so it's going to take a while. I know Google has a whole LLM that is using only healthcare data that they have been working on for a while.
Echos of Steve Ballmer who alienated many whiffed on cloud and mobile (!).
Google has killed their search with advertising and promotion to the point where results are useless.
Product management has been terrible for the things I use over a 10+ year period.
Based on recent employee accounts of the culture and mindset there it's a mess.
I don't know who this guy is, maybe he's just been a caretaker of a place that was already on this path but he doesn't seem to have done anything to improve it. And he's getting paid over $200M? No wonder working people get angry.