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Product companies with deprioritized R&D wings are the first ones to die.
by sharmajai 10mo ago
Product companies with deprioritized R&D wings are the first ones to die.
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- StilesCrisis 10mo agoNone of Meta's revenue has anything to do with AI at all. (Other than GenAI slop in old people's feeds.) Meta is in the strange position of investing very heavily in multiple fields where they have no successful product: VR, hardware devices, and now AI. Ad revenue funds it all.
- skeeter2020 10mo agoHasn't happened to Google yet
- anshumankmr 10mo agoHas Google depriortized R&D?
- astrange 10mo agoApple doesn't have an "R&D wing". It's a bad idea to split your company into the cool part and the boring part.
- fooker 10mo agoIsn't that why Siri is worse today than it was thirteen years ago?
- mi_lk 10mo agoAnd apparently that doesn't stop people from buying their products
- fooker 10mo agoIt doesn't. Apple makes the best hardware, period. It makes sense that people are willing to overlook subpar software for top notch hardware.
- astrange 10mo agoIt's better in ways you don't think about. (It works offline, it works in other languages, the TTS is much better.)
- fooker 10mo agoNone of it matters if it does not understand the audio input and maps it to the correct actions on your device. The first one is a solved problem now, and the second one, while not solved, is where a little bit of research can really make a difference.