Either they skip a new iPhone this year, roll out AI features half-baked, or hold off on the AI features. Each of these scenarios will lead to lots of complaining.
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Apple Intelligence Features Expected to Roll Out in This Order Between iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.4 [Updated]
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Apple Watch is one of apple's biggest and best ever products. a must for millions of people. not sure how people have a smartphone without having the watch
I hope they use some kind of intelligence to fix this awful Photos app. It was perfectly fine as it was. Now it has got so much sorting and data in it that it is completely complicated. And what happened to the aspect ratio for pictures on the iPad? They look like they are on an iPhone With huge black bars and small pictures. I hope that is some thing that I am doing wrong because I really don’t like that.
I’m actually bored of all this Apple intelligence stuff now
I really don’t understand the hype around these features. I for one won’t be using them.
That's OK, if you understand Cook's innovation priorities, then you understand that there is still time for Apple to delay 18.4 into 2025. The only thing important to Cook is the announcement, not actual delivery.
Every WWDC we see more and more delayed functionality. Almost like Cook dreams it up just before WWDC, then the teams that should have been working on the new stuff for a year or more, now get a couple of months to get it done.
It sure would be nice to have someone at the top with a software vision and road map.
What Time Cook has done with, or rather not done with Siri during his leadership speaks for itself!
While Apple during Cook have been very successful with selling a lot of good products, Siri are like Apple’s shadow side, or an adopted entity that never find itself in the Apple family - from my perspective.
Apple have killed products before, so please kill Siri and start something entirely new with Apple intelligence. If they do have any intelligence left at the company, and/or in the team who works with this Apple Intelligence that is.
I won’t use Apple Intelligence as long as Siri is involved in any way though. It took long enough to get it quiet and kill it on my devices. No way that service will come alive again on my devices.
I also look forward to a new leadership at Apple, as Tim’s days as a CEO in counted.
But I am really interested in how AI will evolve, not just Apple’s version of it as long as Siri are involved. It have to show intelligence first.
I am waiting for Apple to renew their leadership.
While Apple during Cook have been very successful with selling a lot of good products, Siri are like Apple’s shadow side, or an adopted entity that never find itself in the Apple family - from my perspective.
Apple have killed products before, so please kill Siri and start something entirely new with Apple intelligence. If they do have any intelligence left at the company, and/or in the team who works with this Apple Intelligence that is.
I won’t use Apple Intelligence as long as Siri is involved in any way though. It took long enough to get it quiet and kill it on my devices. No way that service will come alive again on my devices.
I also look forward to a new leadership at Apple, as Tim’s days as a CEO in counted.
But I am really interested in how AI will evolve, not just Apple’s version of it as long as Siri are involved. It have to show intelligence first.
I am waiting for Apple to renew their leadership.
We'll see. Apple's history says they do not stick with anything that does not provide funds for the current financial quarter. So the only we we'll see them stick to it, is if it becomes a subscription.
I know it comes with the territory of following Steve, but Tim Cook is the most under appreciated CEO I have ever seen. He could oversee Apple’s invention of teleportation while curing cancer and people on MacRumors would be complaining about how terrible he is.
Tim Cook is an entirely different kind of corporate leader than Steve Jobs. Steve was a product guy. Get the product right and everything else falls in to place. Tim is a corporate finance guy who works to please Wall Street in order to keep share prices high. Both have their place. But the product has suffered under Tim.
I don’t think he is under appreciated as a CEO at all, Wall Street loves him because his priority seems to be maximising profit (even if the product suffers). But Macrumors are mostly for people that are fans of the products and for that I don’t think he is that great and nowhere near Jobs that was a ”product first” kind of guy.
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hollllyyyy moly. Horrible look on apple making the 16 all about apple intelligence and it won't be ready for a long, long time.
that's a new low even for apple.
that's a new low even for apple.
Tim Cook has made apple a boat load of money there’s no denying that. But while he’s been touting his extremely niche unaffordable product the vision pro that has basically been forgotten while simultaneously dropping the ball on AI is inexcusable. Some really bad head scratching decisions in Cupertino.
but can you opt out of individual features, like keep photo touchups but opt out of everything else.
In all fairness, I don’t get all the wailing about this. Now, personally, I don’t have much interest in AI - at least not yet. But Mac Rumors has been telling us for months that many of these features wouldn’t be available right at the launch of the new iPhones. And yet, many posting here are behaving as if this was a complete surprise sprung on us at the last second.
Look. In line with what I wrote about Tim Cook above, Apple had to announce something about AI to please Wall Street - even if it wasn’t ready yet. Otherwise, everyone would be wailing about how Apple missed AI and is as good as dead. I spent nearly 20 years in financial news. And I can tell you that many Wall Street analysts, fund managers and traders aren’t nearly as smart as they think they are. So Apple had to let them know that they are on this - even if they were, in fact, behind a bit.
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So how is that actually guaranteed? Is this just by honor or are there technical solutions that ensure that nothing is stored?
Here's the thing: I don't get how that is possible (and it could be because I'm just not understanding). Apple device makes a request to ChatGPT and say the request was something like this: "Please summarize this essay" and then I paste in an essay that I authored.
If this feature is by "honor only", ChatGPT can still mine my essay for its own data use without Apple ever knowing it.
Or, is there a technical feature that actually prevents ChatGPT from making use of my data that I sent?
So how is that actually guaranteed? Is this just by honor or are there technical solutions that ensure that nothing is stored?
Here's the thing: I don't get how that is possible (and it could be because I'm just not understanding). Apple device makes a request to ChatGPT and say the request was something like this: "Please summarize this essay" and then I paste in an essay that I authored.
If this feature is by "honor only", ChatGPT can still mine my essay for its own data use without Apple ever knowing it.
Or, is there a technical feature that actually prevents ChatGPT from making use of my data that I sent?
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This has nothing to do with AI; if you can wait a year then you didn't need to upgrade in the first place.
Nah, 18 will be the real thing. Better wait for the 20 instead.
If apple loses, there will be someone esle taking that market.
Apples new habit of saying “available later in…” is just ridiculous.
You forgot Samsung who has been pioneering this for years and forced Apple to follow as quickly as possible. Samsung is the main competitor and not Google with Pixel phones. And before someone says but Circle to search and Gemini are from Google, so is Chat GPT not from Apple.