CEO Tim Cook says iPhones sell better in countries with Apple Intelligence.

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Apple’s first-quarter earnings report revealed a mixed performance. While overall sales increased by 4%, iPhone sales showed weakness, particularly in China, where they declined by over 11%. CEO Tim Cook attributed this partly to the lack of Apple Intelligence in China and inventory changes. However, the Mac, iPad, and Services categories saw significant growth, with Services up 14% and both the Mac and iPad up 15%. The company reported $36.33 billion in net revenue, a 7.1% increase from the previous year.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•9 hours ago

    If it’s for AI, loading huge models is something you can do with Macs but not easily in any other way.

    I’m not saying many people have a use case at all for them, but if you have a use case where you want to run 60 GB models locally, a whole 192GB Mac Studio is cheaper than the GPU alone you need to run that if you were getting it from Nvidia.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•5 hours ago

      I’ve ran them on intel cpu’s before. When putting a cpu with more than two memory channels and a several hundred watt power budget up to a beefed up mobile cpu, it’s not a fair fight.

      Second hand xeons are cheaper though