Yes. But announcing vaporware is a new thing that's incredibly alarming.
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Apple Executives Won't Be Appearing at This Year's WWDC Episode of The Talk Show Live
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I've been to a few of the live shows. It's a fun event. Gruber just wants Apple to be great. He holds them in high regard. He's completely honest about being a fan. He asks great questions. Are some of them a little softball? Of course, it's fun to see them hit homers. That's not bad. But the way he asks the real questions, there is often a lot of subtext, and especially when you're in the room, you can feel what he's really saying and what they are reacting to. He hits plenty hard. Without poking at spots that are too sore and being too cynical. It's sad that they feel like they couldn't handle the heat this year. Hearing Craig talk about the behind the scenes craftsmanship was always a highlight for any engineer. It only plays into his thesis that something isn't right behind the scenes. They shouldn't run away from Gruber. He's telling them what they need to hear.
This one may not be all Apple. I've had connectivity problems with people on various networks and phones - so while the iphone has issues sometimes, it's not always an iphone problem. How do I know? Because I got switched to the automated answering service after the person picked up and said hello. Said answering service is run by the service provider. A second call got connected
The last thing the cool kids want is to see an old timer like Tim as part of the ensemble.
sadly this is how all PR works. Say something bad and we cut you off in various ways. All big companies do this
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode when visiting Duff Beer factory. "We have nothing planned. Ok".
This is a huge mistake. It makes the leadership look unbelievably petty and small. I like Gruber and he's a great writer but he, of all people, asks pretty softball, to "fair" questions at the WWDC live shows. Leadership should have just taken it on the chin and admitted the **** up. This move signals an even larger problem that just reinforces that something is indeed rotten in the state of cupertino.
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My issue is my APP2 don't reliably or quickly connect to my iPhone 16 Pro. It's one of those things that worked really well about 5 years ago and then has gone through waves of degradation and improvement. But never as good as it originally was. I will answer a call and the phone is showing it is connected to the speaker, sometimes if I am patient, it will auto switch to APP2 (but its hard to be patient after you have answered a call before you say hello because time is a tickin'). So I will tap the AirPods source on the iPhone and it indicates that it switched, but then it falls back to speaker. Then I have to tap AirPods source again and usually it sticks. Meanwhile, 5 seconds has passed and my callers are thinking "who is this freaking moron???"
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This is my fear as a shareholder who watches this company extremely closely and uses most of its products...That the wider public is going to start to be annoyed by the "baseball" stuff. Everyone in my family (3 kids and wife) all curse at Siri (large HomePod) every day. I constantly hear "God, she is soooo stupid!!!" Siri, add turkey meat to the shopping list. I added Turkey and Meat to the shopping list... Arrrrrrgggghhhh!!! They have to repeat their commands constantly because Siri doesn't reply or act. Sync'd large HomePods (latest gen and previous gen - we have both) pause music for a second every 15 minutes give or take (I have Gigabit Spectrum Internet with Eero 7 Wifi). It's like Apple ships products and then stops testing certain setups. It doesn't seem there is enough emphasis on interoperability. Makes me wonder if upper management is not providing enough budget for these types of things.
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He asks questions he thinks have a good chance of being answered. He doesn't waste time asking a bunch of questions that he already knows they are going to dance around answering (at best), because their time is limited and means he'll run of time when asking other questions. It's also why Apple execs have appeared on his show because they know appearing avoiding answering a whole heap of questions doesn't look good. That he doesn't put them in that awkward position made it easier to agree to appear.
I don't blame Apple. Apple messed up. They know it and so do the people that follow Apple. No need to keep rehashing this over and over.
I hear you, have been having some odd things happen as of late like an incoming call being directed straight to an iPad without iPhone even ringing or Audio going to watch while wearing AirPods and not being able to direct audio to the right place.
I feel similarly.
I've only used Macs my entire life. Yeah - rare bird. So I'v been entrenched in the ecosystem before there was an ecosystem.Apple's evolution has been pretty phenomenal - once the anti-establishment, underdog butt of the tech world jokes, they are now the establishment. So bizarre. Anyway, we're an Apple household: multiple iPhones, iPads, laptops, desktops, Apple TVs, Homepod minis - entrenched. Everyone hates Siri. Useless. And Apple's "it just works" bread and butter has never been more inaccurate. My wife HATES her M2 MBA. Amongst other complaints, the 13" screen is entirely too small (for her) and that she can't use a second monitor - only mirroring (she's a grants administrator for a hospital) - is maddening. She'd def move to anything else if I weren't our IT guy. We're enrolled in Apple One - which is largely is pretty good. But we still experience several scenarios where accounts aren't sync'd. Texts on my son's iPhone 13 don't show up on his Mac mini M2. And I know I already mentioned it, but Siri... Oof. It performs about as good as say 1 launch.
That said, Siri is something they can play catch up with and be fine. While it's a bit annoying it has taken the meteoric rise of ChatGPT to light a fire, they're closer to having something more useful than not. But some of the other inoperability issues and overall inconsistencies are things that start to reveal some of the challenges of being such an enormous company serving and insanely huge (and growing) audience. I think Apple will be fine, but they're definitely needing to refocus or something. Odd times.
Apple did not "eff-up" and won't unless they fail to deliver the leftover features before iOS 19 / September.
Alarming? The good news is the few people who are actually bothered by that can exercise their agency, and simply ignore it. Life goes on.
Kids depend on the old timers to pay for their Vision Pro.
This is the reality of marketing.
Siri on HomePod has been improving significantly lately. I’ve been asking it more complex questions like “Is it ok to cut meat on a wood cutting board?” and it’s been giving me a great answers. Though, every once in a while it forgets who’s speaking which is annoying.
They showed a video and marketed their flagship device with a feature that has never been publicly demoed or seems to exist at all. That is a colossal "eff-up" for Apple.