To be fair, Apple has had some. Newton, and the electric apple car.

The thing is, Apple has no desire to be overt in public about the failed at launch, and rarely pre-commits, And Apple sits on a pile of cash which would feed this level of failure until fusion energy arrives. Meta does not have this luxury and throws money hand over fist at Datacenter and data transport costs. All it can do is trade capex for opex.

Apple used to think it might play in hosted solutions, but icloud is run thin, and very little is added that can be avoided.

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t claim it’s only luck and acknowledge this truth:

> with his only real successes coming from spending his company’s fortune to acquire other people’s successful ventures—Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus.

There is clearly skill involved on top of the initial luck (and likely before it).

Meta has clearly made mistakes but it didn’t get to where it was by accident.

The decision to open source models was something others weren’t planning to do and absolutely changed the atmosphere. It’s either visionary or an incredible competitive move, or both.

Also, seems like this article was written by AI, the repetition gave it away.

AI is actually getting quite good