Patrick McGee

And that to me is the most interesting question because, you know, Ben Thompson of trajectory has put this with a nice metaphor.

He sort of laid time bombs for the next CEO, which is to say the China risk could really blow up and we can go into more detail there.

And he's not invested really much at all into data centers for AI.

That might be the right move.

But if it turns out to be the wrong move, Apple would be years behind the companies that people have been fawning over the last few years with appropriate acclaim.

Yeah, no, the getting wrong stuff is obviously more interesting.

And I suppose maybe I would point to two things.

One, there's just the clear failure.

So they worked on an Apple car for 10 years and then abandoned the project.

I honestly hem and haw about whether or not one should point that out as a major disaster.

Tim Cook's line about it was that we like to fail internally.

And honestly, I can respect that.

They put a lot of engineering talent into it and at the end of the day decided not to do it.

I don't know that we should hold his feet to the fire for that.

But it's worth thinking about.

The other one is the Vision Pro.

I mean, I did the Vision Pro demo and was in awe of this thing.

Somehow convinced my spouse to let me get $3,500 to spend on the device.

And after six days, took it back.

I was writing my book at the time.