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For someone as bad as Macrumors posters claim, Tim Cook will have a very stellar career at Apple by the time he retires.
Because Tim Cook is a supply chain guy
Who has generally kept most things simple at Apple by increasing how many iPhones they make & increasing the amount of iPads Apple sell.
 
Apple stock is down almost 6% today. No doubt their admission that Apple Intelligence isn’t all that has something to do with it.
That’s because the people who deal in stocks aren’t normal people in the street
Who generally have no care for apple intelligence
 
Basically, Apple had sold a product on something they didn't have in a VERY public fashion. That means the functionality you see in the commercial is all mockup and not actually real. A deception.

I think that they have it and can (sometimes) replicate the ad.

Problem more likely is that AI can do things that are bad and Apple is afraid of all the potential lawsuits waiting to happen then people trust on Siri confidently hallucinating.

It can be annoying things like "when my flight leaves again" and Siri answering with wrong time leading you to miss the flight. But I am sure there are also scenarios where very bad things will happen and Apple fears that they will be held accountable for.
 
So it all comes back to greediness again. Apple always say they’ve been working and planning years before release. So it’s planned obsolescence to get more money and it’s getting worse by the year.
Exactly I still don’t think Apple intelligence was supposed to be for iOS 18 hence why it wasn’t launched at the start & features of it keeps getting delayed or else most of what was promised would already be out by now & not at the tail end of the OS
 
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How will Apple sell the same phone for the 8th year running later this year, now that the public knows Apple intelligence is another one of cook’s failures

Ooooooh, THATS RIGHT. They can’t, unless they take off 200-300$, which they can’t.

So what on earth are they going to do? 19 must be coming with the 17 then.
 
And that’s a bad thing? Obviously the board after 14 years of him being at the helm thinks that Tim can still remain as ceo.
He might still make them money by for example going from 1 iPhone a year to going to 4 a year. But what’s interesting is Apple no longer report how many individual iPhones they sell anymore. The services are the issue for cook because he needs more customers subscribing to Apple TV+ & things like music & news
 
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He might still make them money by for example going from 1 iPhone a year to going to 4 a year. But what’s interesting is Apple no longer report how many individual iPhones they sell anymore. The services are the issue for cook because he needs more customers subscribing to Apple TV+ & things like music & news
True, Apple stopped report iphone sales in 2018. Which smartphone manufacturer today reports their phone sales? I think Apple management recognized then they have to broaden their service offerings and stop focusing on iphone sales.
 
Immediately thought of this quote as well! Here in Germany it was pretty easy to hold out as they went straight ahead with dismissing Apple Intelligence until 2025, but at this rate I'll wait for the iPhone 18, lol. After all my 14 pro is still banging.

There was a noticeable push by certain YouTubers and print sites to portray the 16e in a positive light, yesterday. They all pushed the same themes, like it was a propaganda peace. One British YouTuber claimed he is no longer carrying his 16 Pro Max because he liked the 16e so much. All I could do was laugh.
 
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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.

...Apple certainly enables this behavior and makes it worse....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.
Yup, I encounter this a little too often as well, people who when responding to one of my texts or emails, even when I've sent them something short and to the point but which contains more than one question or observation, stop after they've read my first question or observation, respond to that, and call it quits. Maybe people with the same mindset are behind this attempt at bowdlerized summarization.
 
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True, Apple stopped report iphone sales in 2018. Which smartphone manufacturer today reports their phone sales? I think Apple management recognized then they have to broaden their service offerings and stop focusing on iphone sales.
That’s because their sales were declining that’s why hence the need to hide them.
They have moved to services because their major income maker is declining so need to find additional revenue from somewhere & yet some of they offerings aren’t the best compared with the competition.
 
Apple’s software team is holding Apple back. Apple hardware is keeping pace, or in the case of Apple silicon setting the pace. Meanwhile Apple software is not keeping up with their hardware team nor competitors. While google and Microsoft keep slowly polishing and adding to their products year after year, Apple seems to have problems scaling to keep their portfolio of OSes, and apps up to date, and put out significant new features, like ai.
 
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That’s because their sales were declining that’s why hence the need to hide them.
Apple was the last company to report phone sales. So by dropping the unit reporting was a smart move on apples part to get people (and MR posters ) to focus on the broader picture.
They have moved to services because their major income maker is declining so need to find additional revenue from somewhere & yet some of the offerings aren’t the best compared with the competition.
Apple for years has been broadening its services and product offerings and last quarters financials one can see that work has paid off. Apple customers voted with their $$$. Best, worse, equal is all an individual call. One MR poster doesn’t speak for all.
 
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Apple was the last company to report phone sales. So by dropping the unit reporting was a smart move on apples part to get people (and MR posters ) to focus on the broader picture.

Apple for years has been broadening its services and product offerings and last quarters financials one can see that work has paid off. Apple customers voted with their $$$. Best, worse, equal is all an individual call. One MR poster doesn’t speak for all.
Yes it was a smart move to now show people where taking longer to upgrade their iPhones or potentially leave to another company.

Yeah a lot of the services aren’t performing well like news+ & arcade are just a few examples.

Your right one MR poster doesn’t speak for all but then again if I buy an Apple product I don’t have to blindly agree with everything they do or say
 
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I really hope they will get a financial hit from this (customers switching). Otherwise things will not change.
Exactly I think marketing Apple intelligence for the iPhone 16’s was a big mistake considering it wasn’t even ready for when the mobiles actually came out.
Where as the competition have had no such issues
 
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Yes it was a smart move to now show people where taking longer to upgrade their iPhones or potentially leave to another company.

Yeah a lot of the services aren’t performing well like news+ & arcade are just a few examples.
And still last quarter was a record quarter from Apple. Even if as you claim some services aren’t performing well, by your standards? Or apples standards?
Your right one MR poster doesn’t speak for all but then again if I buy an Apple product I don’t have to blindly agree with everything they do or say
You don’t even have to buy an Apple product to post your opinions about Apple.
 
And still last quarter was a record quarter from Apple. Even if as you claim some services aren’t performing well, by your standards? Or apples standards?
If it was a record quarter as they claim then they would actually show iPhone sales of every model & not lump them into one big lump.

Again by standards known that certain services aren’t performing well according to reports
I know it’s difficult but this company does actually fail at something’s
 
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If it was a record quarter as they claim then they would actually show iPhone sales of every model & not lump them into one big lump.
It’s easy to see a record quarter. Compare the revenue against prior quarters and see how it stacks up. That’s about the only way to determine if Apple had a record breaking quarter.
Again by standards known that certain services aren’t performing well according to reports
I know it’s difficult but this company does actually fail at something’s
Okay, so your claim is 3rd party reporting is claiming that arcade and news+ aren’t doing well.
 
It’s easy to see a record quarter. Compare the revenue against prior quarters and see how it stacks up. That’s about the only way to determine if Apple had a record breaking quarter.

Okay, so your claim is 3rd party reporting is claiming that arcade and news+ aren’t doing well.
If Apple where consistently out performing last years iPhones they would show a breakdown of the numbers but choose not to.

No my claim is that no matter what anyone says to someone like yourself you are actually quite dismissive of it regardless
 
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If Apple where consistently out performing last years iPhones they would show a breakdown of the numbers but choose not to.
In 2018 Apple stopped breaking out iPhone sales and Apple will not go back to reporting iPhones, even though though, for example in the US they are doing quite well.
No my claim is that no matter what anyone says to someone like yourself you are actually quite dismissive of it regardless
Criticizing Apple by finding anything at all to criticize them about is not a good online debating tactic.
 
In 2018 Apple stopped breaking out iPhone sales and Apple will not go back to reporting iPhones, even though though, for example in the US they are doing quite well.

Criticizing Apple by finding anything at all to criticize them about is not a good online debating tactic.
Ok so how many iPhone 16 pro max models did they sell compared to the 15 pro max from 1 year ago?

I have just said to yourself that I buy Apple products but the big difference is I don’t blindly defend them at every opportunity in regards to everything they do unlike some people.
 
While AI may transform business back-end applications in a meaningful way, AI customer on-board products have so many issues that it renders the technology as of very questionable utility in the near future. Apple would have been better off concentrating it efforts on it's cloud/server applications.
 
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