Alexander Wissner-Gross Physicist and entrepreneur with MIT degrees in physics, electrical engineering and mathematics and a Harvard physics PhD. Known for a 2013 Physical Review Lette...

“Apple has only itself to blame. If Apple is bellyaching that their prices are going up because memory prices are going up, memory prices are going up because the demand is coming from superintelligent data centers, not from consumer devices.”

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026

Context

Apple's first earnings under its new CEO flagged unprecedented memory pricing as a drag on margins. Wissner-Gross argues Apple should have leaned into superintelligence instead of complaining about the cost of memory that AI demand is driving up.

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Transcript

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis Around 17:02 into the episode

Dave Blundin

enthusiasm and all the, you know, like the next 10 years of Apple. How'd you feel about that?

Peter Diamandis

What did you think, Alex?

Alexander Wissner-Gross

I think Apple has only itself to blame. I think Apple should have, could have, hopefully will lean back into super intelligence, and it hasn't been. And so if Apple is bellyaching that their prices are going up because memory prices are going up, memory prices are going up because the demand is coming from super intelligent data centers, not from consumer devices. And then on the other hand, you have Sam Altman basically saying that all of your consumer RAM, you should just hand it over because it's an inefficient use. It's unproductive to have RAM sitting idle in consumer devices when it could be used to full utilization in a data center. I think John Turnas should be listening to Sam and either putting all of the RAM in the devices that Apple ships to full use with super intelligence or maybe just hand it over to Sam and Dario for better use.

Peter Diamandis

When are we getting a new Siri? When are we getting a new Siri? I mean, it was supposed to be by now. Siri still sucks awesomely.

Dave Blundin

Well, maybe they were holding back for Turnus to have some kind of a quick win, but I mean, because it's such a low bar.

Salim Ismail

I think that the earnings was clearly very conveniently, but they beat expectations. This is his first earnings report as CEO. You would expect that. And you can pry the RAM out of my cold, dead hands as far as that,

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