Apple is resisting the push for AI PCs because AI PCs have caused complete indifference

On paper everything was the sea of ​​pretty. Copilot+ PCs wanted resurrect and reinvent the PC turning it into a device with which you can do much more with much less effort. There was a lot of talk about TOPS power, how AI would do a lot of things for us, and an argument that would boost sales. Do you know what? Its impact has been practically zero. For better or worse, the PC segment has not undergone major changes. Sales have not suddenly started to grow, nor have they plummeted. If the Copilot+ PCs wanted to boost sales, they certainly haven’t seemed to succeed. But at least they don’t seem to have had a negative impact either. Own elaboration. Data: IDC The arrival of AI features on PCs should theoretically have had an impact on PC sales by boosting them, but also theoretically on Mac sales, from which it should have stolen some share if AI had been an important argument. As we know, Apple has barely emphasized the AI ​​functions of its equipment. Although introduced Apple Intelligence in June 2024, it did so in a very limited way and almost a year and a half later its functions remain modest. Own elaboration. Data: Apple quarterly reports. The people keep buying Macbut not because of Apple Intelligence, but because they are just that, Mac. This has been noted throughout this period in which sales have remained relatively stable. The Mac is a lot of Mac The recent presentation of the MacBook Pro M5 could encourage sales towards the end of the year, but where Apple seems to have a winning horse is in the MacBook Air M4which has only been on the market for eight months and offers an enviable price-performance ratio. In the US, for example, you can get it right now for 800 dollars (without taxes). Here, for 949 euros. Few Windows laptops can compete with Apple’s offering, which is surprisingly balanced and has extraordinary room for maneuver thanks to its Apple M4 chip. When we tested the Acer Swift Go 14 AIFor example, we find a device that at 719 euros is undoubtedly cheaper and boasts 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SSD, but is inferior in its chip, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus. In Geekbench single-core it is around 2,400 points, and in multi-core it is 10,500. The Apple M4 is around 3,600 and 15,000 points respectively. Acer’s, like other manufacturers selling PC Copilot+, is on paper a comparatively decent proposal, but still fails to impose that TOPS argument and AI functions. They are there and can help, but they are not a decisive argument at the moment, at least if we look at the sales of these devices. PC sales may pick up and boost in the short term, but if they do it will probably not be because of AI features, but for the simple reason that Official Windows 10 support has ended —although that has small print— and many users and companies may have decided to renew their IT infrastructure. However, the promise that AI was going to revolutionize our PCs remains just that: a promise. Apple seems like it can rest easy. And it must be, because this last quarter the Mac division has grown 13% in revenue compared to the same period of the previous year. Not bad. In Xataka | Microsoft is already thinking about what the computers of 2030 will be like and has come to a conclusion: touching is overrated Image | Wesson Wang

Amazon new do not compete against Google Home. Compete against indifference

A decade ago, Alexa was the future. Today, when we talk about conversational and chatbots, we mentioned ChatgptClaude, Grok or Gemini. Traditional voice assistants (I also look at you, Siri) have become something that simply exists, such as microwave: limitedly useful, but forgotten, cornered. Amazon has just presented four new echo devices: Echo Dot Max with serious three times more powerful. Echo Studio redesigned. Echo Show 8 and 11 with screens of more than one million pixels and 13 MP cameras. Yes, but. The improvements are real and measurable. The problem is that many fewer people are paying attention to ten years ago. Alexa has gone from being a revolutionary promise to a kitchen stopwatch with voice and music. We ask songs, we put alarms, little more. The narrative was exhausted. The context. The voice assistant industry It has been stagnant for years in the same basic functionalities. Meanwhile, Chatgpt has demonstrated what a real conversational means: maintain context, reason, surprise. Users already know that there is something better, even if they don’t have it in their living room. Amazon promises that these devices “feel the bases” to Alexa+its assistant with generative. In Spain there is still no arrival date for those advanced functions. It is the usual promise: Wait, the best is yet to come. The big question. Can an improved spherical speaker change habits that we carry dragging a decade? The factor in form is the same. The activation gesture, identical. The user’s expectation about what Alexa does. Between the lines. Amazon does not need only more powerful or microphones chips that better detect the activation word. We need to stop seeing Alexa as another appliance and imagine it again as something that can change how we live. That is not fixed with deeper serious. The battle is no longer against Google Home or Siri. It is against the indifference of users who learned years ago what they can expect from a voice assistant and stopped waiting for more. Amazon has the hardware. He lacks the reason for us. In Xataka | The announcement of the new Alexa hides an awkward truth: the silent sunset of the Solo-Voz interface Outstanding image | Xataka

Apple and its apparent indifference to the AI ​​revolution reminds us of one thing: the Blackberry fall

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence, and everyone is turning not to lose that train. Well, everyone doesn’t. Apple seems not to be especially interested in AI nor is it overlapping like the rest of its rivals. The question is whether that can be your definitive conviction. Wwdc sin (barely) ia. Last week the Microsoft Build and Google I/O conferences were held. In both the focus for AI was absolute. On June 9 Apple will celebrate its WWDC, and All rumors They point out that there will be hardly any news in Apple’s proposals. Instead, the company is expected to talk about the redesign of its operating systems, a project with a “Solarium” code name. Apple keeps losing trains. Apple’s apparent indifference attitude with the field of artificial intelligence is undoubtedly surprising. It is one of the most important technological companies in the world, but still does not react as one would expect from it and Keep losing trains. While the competition reacted quickly developing its own models or reaching agreements and investments with startups such as OpenAi, Apple still did not pay special attention, at least for the gallery. And what he has is disappointing. The company already dedicates thousands of millions of dollars to catch up, but when he finally presented his platform Apple Intelligence The result turned out to be disappointing. Very limited and strenuously slowly In its deployment, caution It is starting to take its toll. Not economically, but reputationally. It is not that this disappointment is pending among external analysts: it is that Even their own employees believe that Apple is behind In ia. The disaster Siri. We have seen it especially with Siri, a voice assistant who was supposed to win many integers thanks to AI but still in the development phase. The promises they made last year have not been fulfilled, and recognized analysts such as John Gruber described the conceptual videos that Apple used as “shit.” Siri’s delay, already confirmed by Appleis the definitive proof that the company is in a worrying situation in this segment. Source: Sherwood News. Remembering Blackberry. When we talk about the reputational crisis From Apple we already made an increasingly striking analogy: that of Blackberry. The company, which dominated the world of mobility with Nokia in the first decade of the 2000s, did not react to the announcement of the iPhone. He was surprisingly indifferent, and the curious thing is that the impact of the iPhone took to notice. In fact, Blackberry sales continued to grow and reached its peak in 2011. From that moment on, fallen into dive. Today the company is a shadow of what it was. Apple annual income. Has the company touched roof? Source: Backlinko. Apple is doing very well (for now). On paper things are going very well for Apple. The company has not seemed to notice the impact of the arrival of Chatgpt, and global sales continue to go up. There is signs of concern, because its star product, the iPhone, It seems to have touched roof. Now in fact the growth is much more modest (2% in 2024) and its Silent transformationalthough effective, seems to confirm that Apple is unable to innovate. Even they have made it clear that They no longer look for the next iPhone. The disruptions, it seems, are overvalued. Apple lives in the past. But as they point out In BloombergApple is living in a “legacy” world, depending on products and services that work it, but do not seem to look at the future. The agreement between Jony Ive and Sam Altman to develop an AI hardware product is another sign that may worry: the company that previously excited and which we expected a disruption was Apple. Now we see others like OpenAi or Google. An increasingly criticized tim cook. That apparent inability to react is making Tim Cook’s succession seem to press. In The Wall Street Journal summary The situation of the Apple CEO, to which the problems accumulate and that continues to focus its strategy on the inertia of the iPhone. But that inertia is not eternal: Eddy Cue, senior executive of the company, testified in the US judicial case against Apple this month and said something unique: “You may not need an iPhone within 10 years, although it sounds like madness.” An opportunity. Apple has been presuming for its commitment to privacy for years, and that was precisely the clear Apple Intelligence approach when they presented it. His promise was that of a more private AI, which we could also execute partially – without need of the cloud – and that would still be as capable as the rest. At the moment, Apple Intelligence benefits are far from competitors, but if Apple manages to catch up at the capacity of their AI and also manage to maintain their privacy promise will have something that competitors in effect do not have. Or two. But we are talking about Apple, a famous company to be late for the revolutions and then win. It should not be ruled out of course in the AI ​​segment, but there may also be new options in the field of hardware. That’s where The connected glasses They can be another accessory Very interesting For a firm that is expected to reinforce its “iPhone ecosystem” with this wearable, and the latest data They point to it. In Xataka | The succession of Tim Cook (I): This is the legacy that Apple’s CEO will leave

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