Ben Gilbert: belief

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…But, anyway. And the counterargument. I’m going to stick with my grade but the counterargument would be that let’s say we move to a world where there’s not all this heavy compute going on in the phones and we rather than having a single device, we have this networked confluence of sensors around us. We have ear pods and we have a watch and we have a screen but it may not have all the innards of the iPhone in it and maybe that screen just appears in our glasses or it appears wherever we’re looking. There’s all sorts of interesting sci-fi features about what the display could be like. But let’s say we decouple all these things. Even though a lot of that intelligence is going to be done in the cloud, we still live in a world that’s more bandwidth constrained than it is compute constrained or storage constrained. I think that as bandwidth continues to be the issue, that’s going to be the gating factor in how much we can push off of our bodies versus actually have with us at all times. Apple bringing all of this silicon design and production in-house or at least designed in-house does allow them to create the best possible experience of this several device ecosystem talking to each other as we’ve seen with the ear pods providing a meaningfully better experience than pairing most Bluetooth headphones. I completely agree and I that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. The reality is, as we talked about, this is what makes our jobs fun and technology as an industry fun, like we’re still early enough in the next wave or waves, whatever they will be whether it's machine learning driven services or sensor and very intimately personal device driven technologies. We’re still early enough that these stories haven’t been written yet. And these waves come so fast in technology that both of us have been in this industry less than 10 years and we’ve already experience multiple waves. It’s what keeps the fun.…

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