The company's research and development spending hit $22.61 billion for the year so far, a figure $3.12 billion higher than this time last year.

Apple has been quiet about ChatGPT. Now Tim Cook says its hefty $22.6 billion research spend is down to generative AI.::The company’s research and development spending hit $22.61 billion for the year so far, a figure $3.12 billion higher than this time last year.

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Apple would be dead if it weren’t for the iPod, which was just a nice mp3 player with a ton of marketing.

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To be fair, that marketing was backed up by the fact that at the time, it really was one of the nicest ones on the market.

It basically allowed them to re-brand RSS feeds with audio files as “podcasts,” too, and now everyone uses “podcasts” with no real notion what they actually are under the hood. That was something of a branding coup.

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