David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Their software quality is faltering in a bunch of ways.

The competition is catching up on the hardware game, in part because TSMC is not an Apple subsidiary, but a foundry that services AMD and NVIDIA and others who are now able to use the same kind of advanced processes.

This is something I learned after not looking at PC hardware for the longest time that, holy smokes,

AMD actually makes CPUs that are just as fast, if not faster than Apple's.

They're not quite as efficient yet because ARM has some fundamental efficiencies over x86, but they're still pretty good.

So Apple should have reason to worry.

Apple shareholders should have reason to be concerned.

not just about all these stumbles, but also by the fact that Apple is run by old people.

Apple's board has an average age of, I think, 75.

Their entire executive team is above 60.

Now,

That sounds horribly ageist.

And in some ways, it a little bit is.

In the same way I'm ageist against myself, like I'm 45 now, and I sort of kind of have to force myself to really get into AI because it is such a paradigm shift.

And a lot of people, when they reach a certain age, are just happy to stay with what they know.

They don't want to go back to being a beginner.

They don't want to go back to having to relearn everything.

And I think like, this is a little hard for me at 45.

How the hell do you do that at 75?

I think what's funny about fatherhood is that for me, I wasn't even sure it's something I wanted.