> “As those things get scaled up, they start to make a meaningful change in the user experience and enable new innovation which has the potential to create a new upgrade cycle in smartphones.”
Interesting read. "Create a new upgrade cycle" is a phrase that's almost too on the nose, but will be interesting to see if the AI-powered feature set genuinely justifies an upgrade. I have a hard time imagining someone wanting to shell out 4 digits to be able to run ex. stable diffusion locally if they weren't already in the market for a new phone, but maybe I'm underestimating the AI hype wave right now. I could see predictive typing or improved voice assistants being the two biggest opportunities for a killer feature, but even then not sure if the value proposition would change that much, especially if the battery life takes any hit whatsoever.
Interesting read. "Create a new upgrade cycle" is a phrase that's almost too on the nose, but will be interesting to see if the AI-powered feature set genuinely justifies an upgrade. I have a hard time imagining someone wanting to shell out 4 digits to be able to run ex. stable diffusion locally if they weren't already in the market for a new phone, but maybe I'm underestimating the AI hype wave right now. I could see predictive typing or improved voice assistants being the two biggest opportunities for a killer feature, but even then not sure if the value proposition would change that much, especially if the battery life takes any hit whatsoever.