Every metric was on my side, and I shut the program down anyway. No rule could have made that call. Chris Marquis wants the business schools that train people for calls like it abolished or remade. Someone still has to decide, so train them better: compare cases instead of judging them one at a time.
The story is that Apple is losing the AI race. Look at what ships, how fast, and into what, and its lead is wider than reported.
A genre of social media post promises the prompts that replace McKinsey: the SWOT, the market analysis, the deck. Nine prompts, sometimes ten. Every list I have seen omits the same one, the prompt that checks whether the AI got any of it wrong. That omission is the tell. The deck was never the product. The checking was, and it still has to be human.
The latest news reports suggest Apple intends to source US phone supply in India to reduce tariff effects. Naturally, this news has attracted negative analyst coverage. The most bearish says it probably won’t work well. Earlier that week, he had cut his stock price target to the lowest of all analysts. Is he right, or missing the big picture?
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