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Apple Delays Major iOS 19 Feature Announcement
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Optimistic but we're not talking a few months later. This is looking to be years later.Better later and better than the other companies
Totally agree with you here. I love their products. Jump on board everything new which comes out and for the most part I'm always happy I did and kept to their ecosystem. But lately with AI it's starting to just make me wonder what their doing and how they missed the boat so badly on this one.
Traditionally you get two out of three of better, faster, cheaper. Apple has zero for three.
I've rolled back to Sonoma to avoid their thrashing. Once everything is working and stable OR they have segregated the AI into an OPTIONAL module then I'll consider upgrading to that OS.
I agree. It’s not great that Apple are struggling with Siri but they only have themselves to blame. It seems they just ignored the problem for years and now they are trying to catch up with something that’s so far ahead of them.
But I think most users just want a functional Siri and one that’s not necessarily based on AI. A lot of Siris problems are not transactional they are implementational. If Siri on my watch can’t figure out what to do due to a connection issue often it will just silently do nothing. Tell me what the problem is in more detail so that I can possibly do something about it. Lost Internet? Maybe automatically try dropping and reconnecting WiFi. Cos if I do that manually it often fixes it. Can’t talk to a HomeKit peripheral? Maybe offer to try again automatically. Jeez.
Any voice assistant that isn’t LLM AI based is near-worthless. Hence why Alexa, Siri, Google etc have done the bare minimum task-based assistance since their inception. When you have to actively think about what you can say or get a response to then you just do the bare minimum.
A voice assistant will be good when all interactions are indistinguishable from sitting and talking to another human being. When it can understand any context or like a human, when it’s not sure what you mean exactly, and asks for clarification, then and only then will it be great.
One can excuse Apple with this overused line only for so long. Life doesn't wait for Apple. If I want/need a feature today, and other companies have it, while I'd have to wait 1, 2, 3+ years for Apple to deliver those features, that's 1, 2, 3+ years ofBetter later and better than the other companies
MY LIFE.
I don't think I've seen a more apt analogy. Apple really is just like Sears.
It took 6 months of prep to move off iOS as my daily (I still have a 16 Pro Max as a backup) driver and it's been a breath of fresh air. Samsung and Google AI tools are genuinely useful. So I'm not sure what is being said here.
My big takeaway: it's dangerous to be all in with Apple's ecosystem and strength lies in cross-platform app synergies. That includes PWAs and native apps. It includes not being tied down when it comes to billing all running through an Apple Card. I'm glad I moved off.
Especially as it concerns my photos and their care. Photoprism is everything I want and haven wanted Apple Photos to be. It's all backed up too, but not inside a proprietary cloud.
Extricating the photos was the hard part. Arguably the hardest part. And I'm glad I did it. I've lost nothing and gained quite a lot in the process. I have a more modern and streamlined approach to my digital files and my mobile device and the important parts of that equation don't rest in the hands of a company that is struggling on a fundamental level to execute, a company that often lets bugs and inefficiencies languish and go ignored for years. I can't abide that. Apple's priorities shifted and it doesn't overlap with mine anymore.
I found myself nodding in agreement with this, it's well worth a read and more eloquently states the case than anything I can type.
So perhaps next year the minimum memory to run Apple AI will be 32GB and year after will be 64GB so doubling memory necessary to run it every year. My 16" M4 Max MacBook Pro has 128GB of memory so should be good for a few more years
At any other company, the CEO would be facing consequences. Apple keeps failing at AI, investing billions, hiring high-profile people, then failing again.
How many failures before Tim Cook is finally dropped like an iPhone SE? How many Apple cars, Apple Vision Pros, and Apple intelligences before investors wake up?
Every one of their competitors are ahead of Apple in this space. Even Amazon casually waltzed in and comprehensively whooped Apple in this space.
How many failures before Tim Cook is finally dropped like an iPhone SE? How many Apple cars, Apple Vision Pros, and Apple intelligences before investors wake up?
Every one of their competitors are ahead of Apple in this space. Even Amazon casually waltzed in and comprehensively whooped Apple in this space.
And we’ll all live off rainbows and unicorn poop fumes! All hail the mighty computer!
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I ask this too- but I think focusing on purely-financial grounds, as long as he keeps making Apple money, he will be successfully shielded from any accounting for those shortcomings. I could see this as good or bad depending on the goal in mind
No it actually will be that powerful is the funny thing.
Remember this:
Electricity changed civilization in almost every way imaginable. Now, you don’t think about that because firstly you don’t even realize to think about that, but I just told you, so think about it right now.
You believe it to be so that no technology can make change that is unimaginably great. Well buddy, electricity already did it.
AI will be transformative on the level of electricity. Nothing else really compares.
It doesn’t really help your case when you go “Well buddy” and speak so confidently as if it were all fact
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AI is a parlor trick at this point. It’s not the core attraction of the Apple ecosystem. And don’t forget SJ had failures as well, but TC had a load of successes.
Of course if you don’t like TC any justification to see him go is a good one.
AI will repeal the laws of physics. Sure it will. AI can build nothing. It has no hands, it moves no materials. All it does is regurgitate that which already in the database. There is utility in searching very large databases, but creating energy is not something it can do.
In the words of Yann LeCun, "we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than house cat." Cats, after all, have a mental model of the physical world, persistent memory, some reasoning ability, and a capacity for planning. None of these qualities are present in today's frontier AIs.
Then you have not been paying attention.
though it is usually based on rumors instead of Apple, I think it is important for Apple never to announce anything before they are absolutely sure it's ready, especially as no one is clamoring for anything AI from Apple.
AI is not ready for Primetime from any company. Great use cases today, amazing technology that will change the world, but not completely there yet. Certainly not from Apple.
AI is not ready for Primetime from any company. Great use cases today, amazing technology that will change the world, but not completely there yet. Certainly not from Apple.
so cool that 2-3 years of iOS development are being wasted on chasing the AI bubble and not fixing the long standing bugs/stablity issues.
Fine with me.
In my experience, AI pretty much sucks. Maybe in a few years it will be usable. Of course, I have no interest in using any AI, without decent security/privacy in place.
In my experience, AI pretty much sucks. Maybe in a few years it will be usable. Of course, I have no interest in using any AI, without decent security/privacy in place.
Tesla's full self-driving tech is a great example of AI in a consumer product and it's definitely ready for prime-time.
I remember reading an article decades ago that argued that climate change and global pollution wasn’t a real problem, because real problems are expensive, and polluting the planet is cheap.
The assumptions and logic in your comment reminded me a lot of that article.
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Tesla doesn’t have full self-driving….
They have a feature called “Full Self-Driving”, which requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times…so you know it’s not full self-driving…
That’s right. And nobody has ever been charged for being asleep at the wheel behind a TELSA in FSD mode. That has never happened at all. They always had their hands on the wheel.