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Apple Delays Apple Intelligence Siri Features

They will roll this into iOS 19 and make it a big deal because it doesn’t seem likely that iOS 19 will bring many new functionalities to the table. Perhaps there will be a slight visual change to align it with vision OS and an updated camera app.
 
Remember when Apple didn't announce things until they were ready? And when they announced things for an OS, it was there when the new iteration was released? Yeah, I miss those days. The way Apple does it now reminds me of the game industry releasing unfinished games with promises for the updates to come later.
 
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Chickens without heads, all. Apple isn't alone with this, but it's a disgrace.

But the product? Is everything.
 
OOOF. Guess better to delay than to rush out a product that isn't complete. Cough Apple Maps cough cough.

Just sucks because Siri has already been behind other assistants for years now.
 
SteveJobs2.0 said:
They will roll this into iOS 19 and make it a big deal because it doesn’t seem likely that iOS 19 will bring many new functionalities to the table. Perhaps there will be a slight visual change to align it with vision OS and an updated camera app.
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Apple's problem now is that they have ALREADY announced it, and told people to buy the iPhone 16 series because of it.. and people did so and discovered that it SUCKS. Why should anyone believe Apple marketing the next time it claims that Apple Intelligence is ready and worth a purchase? It's a problem entirely of Apple's own making. Apple used to under-promise and over-deliver, and it "just worked." Now, "think different" pretty much means "convince yourself that the Emperor is clothed, fanboys!"
 
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I would be way less bothered by this if Apple were just honest about what they've delivered so far. They have absolutely not "made Siri more conversational." If anything, it's worse than before. "Type to Siri" is not a new feature, it's just been given a fresh coat of paint (and it's now way slower than it used to be!). And the ChatGPT integration is, frankly, garbage. I've literally used it twice and probably never will again because it's intolerably slow and produces inexplicably different and unquestionably worse results than the ChatGPT app.

And what is Apple planning to release from now until June? Nothing?
 
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This has been a colossal miss by Tim and Apple, it's not last but best, it's last and last so far

Total matter of speculation here, but I think Steve's brain would have been on fire learning about the modern take on AI, the question of computers just doing one thing at a time instead of us just telling them to do something and they go off and do all the steps for it has come up many times during his career even that I can think of, it's been on his mind, and the modern method allows that. I think he would have seen a hard pivot in software and made a much harder pivot towards it.

Tim is the kind of guy to go, oh, that's not so big right now, maybe we'll do a bit of playing around in it, but he didn't go as big, as fast as needed, and now they're years behind with ACDC (their take on Nvidia H200s) not even scaling till 2026+ which makes the word of a conversational Siri not happening till 2027 now with iOS20 make sense. And imagine how bad it would be if even ACDC remains far behind Nvidia by 2027, and they have a lot less to train actual LLM Siri in iOS20 on even still....
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You're not wrong, but this whole "Steve would have done X" thing is incredibly annoying and pointless. He's been dead for nearly 15 years. Literally nobody knows what he would have done or thought.
 
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Apple could not have done a WORSE job in rolling out its AI capabilities over the past year. Despite all the hype last year with the new iPhone 16 launch, 'Apple delays [THING$]' has become business as usual for them on this topic.

They were *way* late to the game and now seem to trip over their own feet at every opportunity. Steve must be rolling in his grave.
 
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The result of years of neglect of their software.

They have completely lost the plot.

The only AI we have is basically an extension to use chat gpt natively, and it’s buggy AF.

They turned two glorious operating systems into absolute rubbish, overloaded with bugs and half baked features. They focused only on gimmicks for kids.

The talent is gone, the company is running out of luck, they won’t be able to milk the success of the Jobs era for much longer.


Sad story. But also Companies like Nokia, Polaroid, Olivetti, Blockbuster, Blackberry were once dominating their field and thought to be impossible to fall.
 
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bhirt37 said:
I remember the days when we would bash companies for vaporware because apple would never pre announce products.

Then we got that stupid wireless charger which never happened.

Now, Apple has been running ads for 9 months showing features, some of which don't even exist yet. Many that don't work as advertised. It’s been such a hard selling point for the new phones. It really has been something to witness. The terrible quality of apple AI and the down right misleading marketing has really shaken my faith and love for their products.

I have always defended Tim Cook, but now I wonder if maybe I was wrong. Turning a big ship like apple takes time, even if its a wrong turn. Is he really the reason the culture has changed so dramatically?
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I believe he's a big part of it, yes. He's a logistics guy, always was. He's the perfect guy for Apple to save money everywhere possible. I know people don't like to hear this sometimes, but Steve would have not been like this.
 
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So sad that some apple intelligence features are delayed...
Im getting the iPad Air M3 for just the full iPad experience I guess... (Currently have mini)
 
I am so glad I did not buy the 16. I am on a 14 and I was really thinking about it, but since Apple AI was going to be slow rolled I said "Ok I will wait for the 17". But now I am thinking maybe wait for the 18. All depends on what state Apple AI is in by 2026. I am leery that Apple will say, well Apple AI is ready but it won't run fully unless you have an iPhone 18 because we added this and that and it requires our "new" chip to work.
 
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You're not wrong, but this whole "Steve would have done X" thing is incredibly annoying and pointless. He's been dead for nearly 15 years. Literally nobody knows what he would have done or thought.
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It’s very funny to imagine these people still doing this in 2254 or something. It’s basically already a religious point of view at this point.

Loads of companies and people completely missed the boat on modern AI, so it’s impossible to say what Jobs would have done.

The ‘ChatGPT moment’ in November 2022 took a lot of people by surprise.

Anyway, saying that Jobs would have done X or Y just adds nothing to the discussion and just cements that you’ve been captured by a cult of personality. Let Jobs rest, and move on.
 
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