Apple Maps was way better than this mess, and people lost their jobs over that debacle. Who will get fired this time?
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Apple Delays Apple Intelligence Siri Features
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He would have been a marvelous CEO and had a similar set of competencies to Jobs. What happened to him was a crime and now those karmic chickens are coming home to roost.
This is really starting to feel like Apple's "Blackberry" moment. Dominated the market for a number of years and then just couldn't keep up with new innovations. They'd better wake up or they're going to suffer the same fate.
This is still Apple's biggest miss in many years. Stunning that a company with a pile of cash like theirs has such a bad AI offering.
""Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we've made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT." such a revolution! Six months to add a product info database (no AI there, it could have been done since day 1 in 2011), the "more conversational" Siri that had already been introduced a few years ago without concrete change... and ChatGPT integration... so just using OpenAI api's. WOW! So much innovation!
I'd wager the car was, financially speaking, the absolute biggest miss. And it should have been the impetus for the shareholders showing Tim the door.
What about when you're already severely late in putting out the game to begin with? And when early signs indicate it's woefully uncompetitive before even being released? And when you're the most successful game developer out there?
They shouldn’t push a new phone as “made for AI” when the AI is not going to be out until a different Phone is released. It’s fraudulent.
Tim clearly does not care about these kind of things, and they are getting old with Craig so...
Truly, this doesn't get talked about enough. Apple pissed away billions of dollars on a doomed project for years, not to mention the non-monetary costs of doing so. Makes you wonder where they would be if all those people and resources working on Project Titan were focused on Mac/iPhone software and AI the whole time instead.
It at least shows some signs of innovation and a blueprint of a future, even if the hardware is impractical for the masses and the software ecosystem is still underdeveloped.
As someone with a lab of over a dozen them, I agree. But it didn't cost Apple 10BN and a decade. It should have been the end of Cook. But the AVP is a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with modern Apple: gorgeous hardware let down by software and a contentious developer story that's largely the end result of Apple hubris.
Cool. You have already used ChatGPT to succession plan apples future. The board can now retire. /s
Plan for the worst, expect the best. This is modern Apple after all
No kidding. I have parents who upgraded to the iPhone 16 specifically because "Siri is supposed to be better on the new iPhone!". When in reality, they should have just held onto their iPhone 13s.
It would seem their use of AI stands for Anemic Innovation...or Awful Implementation.
Forstall wouldn’t be able to lead Apple, imo. And your opinion of Tim is incorrect and also Apple software, imo. But to each their own and your mileage will vary.
That's partially on you for not steering them away. You're on this forum you know better (or ought to)