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This Week in Startups · 2025-08-08 · 79 min · 15,018 words

GPT-5 comes alive, Apple is struggling, and Ripple bought Rail | E2162

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That's what Steve Jobs actually wanted to do. He wanted to make these products here. And you and I were having a private discussion about just how discraziod this company is. It's disappointing. That's how I feel.

I feel disappointed. I I I when we got the iPad, when we got the iPhone, you were looking forward to a lifetime of exciting Apple. products, you were gonna, every five years there was gonna be some new amazing innovation. And it it it it it has not been realized that vision. Once we got through the pipeline of whatever Steve Jobs had thought of, there was no nothing bold left.

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