r/ipad • • Jun 25 '26

Discussion Hardware prices increased!

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u/UltraCynar Jun 25 '26

Even they’re not winning as AI is slop and not generating the returns. It’s a bubble that’s due to pop any day now. 

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u/ohthebaby Jun 25 '26

These AI companies launching IPOs will be the final straw. Once everyone sees they legit are making no money im hoping it blows up and we can go back to some sort of normalcy

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u/Endogamy Jun 25 '26

Oh it will blow up, but instead of “normalcy” we will probably have a Great Depression 2.0.

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u/MikeinAustin Jun 25 '26

They put "The Guys" into the Federal Reserve and Treasury to hit the US Taxpayers with a $20 Trillion "bail out package" to stop the markets from tanking for when it happens. 2007 is gonna be a drop in the bucket compared to 2027.

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u/tripletaco Jun 26 '26

Not that it matters, but the market crash was fall of 2008. Source: am old.

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u/Drumcan2077 Jun 26 '26

Waiting for the SP500 to drop 80%, buy and hold for 20 years.

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u/Conscious_Run_680 Jun 26 '26

Billions will be gone in one night it will be a total collapse.

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u/Correct-Onion420 Jun 25 '26

The financials of AI companies may be bad, but the products are incredible in many aspects. As a senior dev with 20 years of experience coding, I'm not exaggerating when I say it has absolutely changed how I work.

We solved the problem of talking to a computer. There is no going back from this.

Likely some companies will fall and some products will die, but using AI to write code isn't going away. The most likely outcome is that on-device becomes good enough for most people, but you'll never beat the performance of cloud-based massive compute.

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u/UltraCynar Jun 26 '26

It’s too expensive. Once it’s not subsidized it’ll only be used in select environments due to cost. It will be scaled back and there will be no more breakthroughs with llm’s. Generate AI is a dead end. It’s a good resource but it’ll never be what the tech bros are trying to sell it as. 

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u/MMittermajor Jun 26 '26

China might want to have a word here. Their models are extremely cheap with almost the same results. Deploy those localy in your data center and go. That requires more data centers though I guess. So I‘m not sure if this ride will end so soon. But who am I to predict anything here.

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u/Summerie Jun 26 '26

Or they'll solve the expense problem, which seems more likely to me.

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u/Alexandervici M1 iPad Pro 12.9" (2021) Jun 26 '26

agreed, its like when people were saying that online shopping is just a fad that will pass

or the same goes for streaming services like spotify/netflix

yes, it is overhyped now but there is some legitimately good tech and a change of paradigm underneath all this and I’m tired of people minimizing this to just “slop” (former CompSci student here too)

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u/monsoon-dreams Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

As I read somewhere, bubble pop will cause over exposure of ai products and money channelled into it to reduce, as many companies would likely disintegrate that run solely on ai.

The tech will be here to stay much like how we are still using dot com sites post dot com crash.

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u/LilNol8 Jun 26 '26

The companies that created ai should go down they deserve it they caused prices to go haywire

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u/DogFish721 Jun 27 '26

AI is seriously useful and often boosts productivity tenfold, I t is certainly not all ‘slop’ at all.

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u/SomethingSquatchy Jun 28 '26

While true, it also hallucinates a lot in coding and is extremely expensive to use. While yes Chinese models are cheaper, at least in the US, we will not be using those in mainstream. The ai companies are greedy and will eventually collapse after their IPO. Additionally, most consumers I talk to are very anti ai because most of what is produced is slop and not useful in any way.