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Apple Year in Review 2024

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  • Apple Year in Review 2024

Happy Thursday. Hello everyone.

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Turning to today’s update, we will go over my thoughts regarding Apple’s 2024. Our focus won’t be on what Apple should do in 2025 and beyond. We can tackle that topic in the new year.

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Apple Intelligence and Meta Integration Hoopla, Revisiting Apple Intelligence Integration Monetization

Today's Above Avalon Daily email contains the following stories:

  • Apple Intelligence and Meta Integration Hoopla

  • Revisiting Apple Intelligence Integration Monetization

We begin with my thoughts on the WSJ’s and Bloomberg’s conflicting reports regarding Apple and Meta in discussions regarding AI integration. The discussion then turns to possible monetization paths for integrating third-party large language models with Apple Intelligence.

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Apple Intelligence Is a Game Changer

Today's Above Avalon Daily email contains the following story:

  • Apple Intelligence Is a Game Changer

Hello everyone. Given the way Apple put together the WWDC 2024 keynote, there is a natural divide that we will utilize for our review and analysis. The next two updates will be dedicated to Apple Intelligence. Today’s discussion will have a broader theme while we will go over the Apple Intelligence features and more on ChatGPT integration tomorrow. Thursday’s update will go over everything else from the keynote.

Yesterday, we had an entertaining (virtual) meetup in the member forum. If you haven't checked out how it went down, hop on over to the forum (using this link) and take a look. You can leave your own comments to any of the discussions as well.

Above Avalon membership is required to read this update. Members can read the update here.


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Member Privileges and Benefits

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  • Exclusive Analysis. Receive my daily newsletter and reports containing analysis and perspective, 100% related to Apple. 

  • Earnings Model. Access my working Apple earnings model (an Excel file that also works in Numbers).

  • Member Archive. Access all previous analysis sent to members.

  • Member Forums. Interact with other members in the Above Avalon team in Slack.

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