Why Wall St. was disappointed by WWDC 26
Apple's stock dropped after WWDC 26 for a reason. The new frontier of AI is about creating, writing, and connecting. Read-only and information-only just aren't cool enough anymore.
Product & engineering leader — building fintech infrastructure at China Construction Bank (Asia), previously CTO at an embedded-insurance startup.
I'm writing again because the interesting frontier of AI isn't read-only — it's creation, writing, and connection. This is where I think out loud about that.
Apple's stock dropped after WWDC 26 for a reason. The new frontier of AI is about creating, writing, and connecting. Read-only and information-only just aren't cool enough anymore.
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