Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron – who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" – has spent years arguing the buildout driving those costs will never pay for itself. We asked him what happens to Apple if he's right. You've been calling AI a bubble since before it was fashionable.
The implication of this is that the technology is not a dead end, and I still maintain it is a solution in search of a problem. There are no competitors because there is no need for the product.
Somebody once had the best 3D TVs too - but they no longer exist for a reason.