What’s the rumor again for memory on the iPhone 17? 12 gig? That should be some indication there might be some stuff unique to the iPhone 17.
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Apple Delays Apple Intelligence Siri Features
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Well Apple has high accolades for the innovation and their perception. I’m not so sure it’s a gravy train as much as a string of successes. But as we all know ones opinion will vary.
I would not be the slightest bit surprised if they end up saying almost all of the new Siri features only work on iPhone 17 Pro. It is sounding more and more like the way they want to implement AI won’t work fully on device without more power than they’ve given it. Look what they did to iPhone 15 buyers. I will start shifting somewhere else if they do that to iPhone 16 Pro buyers.
The things I have always valued about Apple appear to be sinking. They wanted the stock bump from announcing AI, knowing full well that they weren’t going to deliver it.
Top all of this off with the fact that my devices are glitchier every year. My iPhone 15 Pro wouldn’t work appropriately with CarPlay until half-way through iOS 17. My iPhone 16 Pro now won’t let me send text messages through CarPlay with iOS 18.
And engineers do not leave good companies with good pay unless management encourages it.
Cook being a hardware and financial guy has probably outsourced a lot of the software engineering to low cost third world countries. And now Cook is receiving the backlash from poor software design and execution.
Apple spell check is awful, how can they be any good with AI when they can't get spellcheck to work.
The same trick they used with the iPhone 16. Timmy:”give the new iOS some capabilities that will only run on the latest iPhones so we might push some people into buying them”.
When you don’t have other compelling reasons to buy a new iPhone, Timmy just chooses to use sleazy tactics. Hope more people realize how far iPhones are behind in software and specifications and start using their brains more.
There are many compelling reasons to buy a new iPhone. The new iPhone may not be for you, but people do buy.
Nothing like we're witnessing with Apple's efforts in AI. Steve Jobs would not have let Siri languish for over a decade
The scope of the tech was different then. AI is a moving target destined to become a commodity, such as search.
They're older and use Siri and dictation extensively.
Dictation was always quite good. And the iPhone 16 is a nice bump for the iPhone 13. And I’m “older” also and I never use dictation. But to each their own.
Passing by with an anecdote, all with AirPods: when jogging (or any Apple’s Workout app exercise for that matter) Siri detects when stopping and restarting. It says “stopping/resuming work out” or if I forgot to stop completely and left it running it asks if I ended my workout and if I want to stop. All fine and good, those are useful features.
Soon after, I ask anything regarding the workout: “Hey Siri, how long have I been doing my current workout”, “what’s my current pace”, “pause workout”, “resume workout”, anything really.
The darn Siri will be completely lost, in the innocent-ish voice: “on which app?”, “can’t do that right now”, “got to unlock the phone (it was on the watch in any case)”, etc
It just had access to the workout app and data a second before but not anymore when I trigger it myself… and I’m sure it worked a lot better some years ago.
Years ago I would be able to control a lot of Apple Music, “play x or y playlist on shuffle”, “I like this song (and favorites it)”, “add this song to music playlist X or Y”, etc. Now they barely work 1 out 5.
It defaults to “here’s a song from [random artist] on Apple Music!” messing up all the queue and everything.
It begs the question, what’s going to happen to Siri on the watch? There there’s not the supposed amounts of RAM and iPhone 16 levels of performance for Apple Intelligence and new Siri… so it would only really work with the phone nearby always.
Soon after, I ask anything regarding the workout: “Hey Siri, how long have I been doing my current workout”, “what’s my current pace”, “pause workout”, “resume workout”, anything really.
The darn Siri will be completely lost, in the innocent-ish voice: “on which app?”, “can’t do that right now”, “got to unlock the phone (it was on the watch in any case)”, etc
It just had access to the workout app and data a second before but not anymore when I trigger it myself… and I’m sure it worked a lot better some years ago.
Years ago I would be able to control a lot of Apple Music, “play x or y playlist on shuffle”, “I like this song (and favorites it)”, “add this song to music playlist X or Y”, etc. Now they barely work 1 out 5.
It defaults to “here’s a song from [random artist] on Apple Music!” messing up all the queue and everything.
It begs the question, what’s going to happen to Siri on the watch? There there’s not the supposed amounts of RAM and iPhone 16 levels of performance for Apple Intelligence and new Siri… so it would only really work with the phone nearby always.
Apple shouldn't be announcing features that aren't ready yet.
They could share that they're developing a conversational Siri, but they shouldn't have said it was coming with iOS 18 when it clearly was not ready yet, and they were only guessing at the timeline. Apple Intelligence features were the main marketing point for the iPhone 16, but now many of these features won't come until the iPhone 17 or later.
We're getting into an AirPower-like situation here.
They could share that they're developing a conversational Siri, but they shouldn't have said it was coming with iOS 18 when it clearly was not ready yet, and they were only guessing at the timeline. Apple Intelligence features were the main marketing point for the iPhone 16, but now many of these features won't come until the iPhone 17 or later.
We're getting into an AirPower-like situation here.
Yep. This was a promised feature of iPhone 16. They need to refund and take them back or free upgrade to whatever phone is current whenever they actually release it. Of course none of this is going to actually happen with these people unless there's a class action that's somehow successful.
