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Apple’s chips are way better so whether they’re doing more locally or not they have the headroom to do a lot more.

I would agree with that characterization of Google. They have a very small handful of successes and an enormous pile of failures that they’ve discarded. They give every impression of not really knowing what to do.

I think Giannandrea was also referring specifically to the kinds of experiences Apple can provide on the iOS and iPadOS platform because of their high end hardware and deep software integration. Google has yet to replicate that, and even seem to be bored with Android recently: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/08/05/wear-os-music

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Apple's AI accelerator is meaningfully better than the Snapdragon 855's, but way behind the 865's.

> I would agree with that characterization of Google.

No. It's fine to dislike Google's stuff, but words have meanings. The claim that Google doesn't ship ‘consumer experiences’ to hundreds of millions of people is objectively false.

The 865 is a generation newer than the chips Apple has released. I'll wait and see what happens come September and October of this year.

>No. It's fine to dislike Google's stuff, but words have meanings. The claim that Google doesn't ship ‘consumer experiences’ to hundreds of millions of people is objectively false.

Sure, they have some experience. But their core business is not shipping experiences that consumers pay them for. That is all.

What AI failures have Google had? Google Home is much better than Siri or Alexa. The camera feature in Google Translate works really well. Their new auto subtitles on Android work really well. Searching photos for objects works really well.

The only thing I can think of is that think they demoed that would call restaurants to book them for you, but that was clearly highly experimental, and it's not like Apple has done that.

None of those are at risk of taking over as a revenue stream from ads on search and YouTube, is my point. You're right that it's cool stuff but right now it is being subsidized by a staggeringly more profitable business. I'm skeptical of their ability to pivot away from the dependency on search, which is good enough, obviously, but they seem to have higher aspirations of which they consistently fall short.

I really do want to see them succeed I guess I'm just overall disappointed with where they're at right now and I think they've somewhat overhyped it. I'm not a voice assistants person, I disable Siri personally.

https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

Ok what's your point? Does Apple's search engine work for this query?

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