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Apple Pulls iPhone 16 Ad Showing Off 'More Personal Siri'
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The new Photos app, the Mail app changes, System settings on MacOS, all these changes recently are horrible and unusable but people excuse them because Apple's software today is such a mess it's expected. We've been worn down.
I like the photos app changes. I’m ambivalent about the mail app changes and I don’t use macOS.
Nobody is excusing anybody but all of us have a different take on things.
Point taken. But you have to admit, there's some problems there
all I'm saying is that it REMINDS me of the Copland debacle.
Recorded an 8 minute phone call with my doctor’s office this morning. Apple Intelligence has been trying to transcribe the call for at least 10 minutes. When I get the money I’m paying off my iPhone and switching to Galaxy. So sick of it.
Next will be dropping the iPad and replacing it with a Galaxybook Pro. At least Samsung makes an effort to innovate… Ring, AI, etc.
Next will be dropping the iPad and replacing it with a Galaxybook Pro. At least Samsung makes an effort to innovate… Ring, AI, etc.
Guys remember the Apple maps fiasco?
aaand the forced resignation of scott Forstall
aaand the forced resignation of scott Forstall
Tim should step down. He’s a disaster.
Apple Maps. Siri. Apple Intelligence. Dude has about 10x as many failures as accomplishments.
I was just about to spend in two of it's products, but seeing what they're doing I'll wait as long as they keep it's seriousness as a company.
Here one who bought the 16pro max and have nothing new (advertised)... Oh yeah, a mess of a buggy ios18, what a shame of version...
Apple used to keep what was promised. That's why lots of people buy it's products
They are gonna lose millions if people gets angry because of this. Much worse letting down people rather than pay for a class action lawsuit. That's the keystone of any business, their clients.
1 co-worker, no friends and family (though I can think of one or two that might do something like that). The other ones have been, I guess I would call them customers? Clients? I’m involved in some non-profit organizations that deal with the public.
IMO, this is nothing new. I’m sure everyone has experience with that person that reads the first sentence of your email and then replies to that or calls you about that and then when you ask them about the important questions and problems you brought up later in the email they’re like what??? I think it’s the exact same people that do that, just now they’re relying on generative AI and trusting it too much.
I suppose one could argue that my problem is people, not Apple. But Apple certainly enables this behavior and makes it worse. And don’t get me wrong, I’m sure if you ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, et al. to summarize a 50 word text message down to six words it would get it wrong also. The whole idea of summarizing potentially long communications into less than 10 words displayed on a lock screen is just idiotic. It is an ill conceived idea that should’ve never made it past the drawing board. It’s clear they’re trying to address a real problem, which is people being bombarded with so many notifications that they miss the ones that are important. I tried the notification summary feature that gives me an update several times a day, but that didn’t work for me either. But I digress….
Ah. He’s not stepping down. Nor is he being fired. Forestall took the hit on maps.
I have to agree with this. When a multi trillion dollar company with a massive staff, and what is claimed as the most powerful chip in a phone, can’t bring to the table what was advertised. The problem isn’t the employees, it’s the ones running the ship. What a monumental excrement show. I do wonder about Apple lately, how can you have so much money, but still have so many bugs, issues and poor releases? It really is just about the shareholders now and not its customers anymore.
As I am acutely aware as a user of Apple products for over 20 years, many of us have stockholm syndrome.
It's a leadership issue. A company like Apple has to have a strong-willed visionary at the top. We are in another Spindler era. The difference between now and the early 90's is Apple has the cash and customer base to live for decades like this. But the charm of the company is gone, they're basically IBM now.
Well, Siri never succeeded in what it was sold as to the public. It's not about bashing Apple. I am just pointing out that neither Siri, nor AI have yet been successful by this company and it's surprising considering the resources they have.
And Apple doesn’t care that MR posters believe their customers have Stockholm syndrome.
If that’s the way you want to view this, I’m not going to change your mind. But you can’t universally group hundreds of millions of customers into one category.
Agreed
With regard to emails, this problem is already solved, if only folks could learn how to properly write a "subject".
Where are those “Apple takes its time to release something “ people 🤣🤣
It’s those “apple takes its time to release things better than rush it like android” jingoists 😂
I would love if John Oliver dedicated a segment to this entire **** up by Apple.
He could even use this ad to compare it to an iPhone currently
He could even use this ad to compare it to an iPhone currently
I remember the days when Apple wouldn’t announce products until they were shipping. They were glorious. Steve Jobs was sexy. The world was great.
Available later today!
Yes, I know steve pre-announced the original iphone.
"when Apple does it they take their time and do it right"
😂
The "do it right" is my favorite part
It's not that bad. We've had much worse. What they've done to Siri and AI garbage now, that has been horrible and a flop.