John Gruber

strangeness inside of Apple, including the car, which I think is the closest thing to sort of a failed lark of an experiment, seems by and large to have been Tim Cook giving Johnny Ive too much rope to chase his own vision and ideas.

On the other hand, it's not like he missed anything.

This to me is one of the things that I think goes back to, John, what you were saying about the smartphone is while everyone else flailed around uncontrollably trying to find the thing after the smartphone,

like credit to Apple for just continuing to look around and be like, oh, we're the smartphone company?

That's sick.

And just not do anything except continue to entrench around the smartphone.

And like, is there something that they, you know, someone is doing that they, I don't know.

But right now there is no evidence that Tim Cook missed anything.

And I think that to me is like the thing about his product legacy that is probably the most positive.

Yeah.

I mean, this is an interesting time for this to be happening because I would say if there is going to be some brand new hardware, AI is the best shot we've had to find it in a while.

But that said, the single best AI device anyone owns right now is their smartphone.

And I think that's going to be the case for some time.

Or a Mac Mini, which you can't even find anymore.

At least he didn't rename the company after it and then screw that up horribly.

That is fair.

I think, yeah, the whole question of there was that first era where everybody had a bunch of correct ideas about what voice was going to be.

I mean, because you can tell a very similar story about the Alexa team at the beginning and the Google Assistant team at the beginning.

And like everybody kind of intuitively saw the future.

And then for some combination of business reasons and technology reasons and focus reasons,