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Apple Teases 'Incredible Road Map Ahead'

It has been a long time since I felt optimistic about Apples product line. While I appreciated Cook as an ethical human and a far better leader of personnel than Jobs ever was, I came to hate the Apple products of the hatchet era, and hope a new CEO that comes from the product side is soon reflected in the catalog. But I’ve waited this long, another couple years won’t kill me.
 
They did such an incredible job with the M1, that anything after that felt like a spec bump. I've never been in less hurry to upgrade my Mac after 5 years of usage as I am today.
 
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Does anyone else remember a similar comment 10+ years ago about the “product pipeline”? It’s really sticking out in my mind but I just can’t place when, where, or who within Apple said it.
 
So jumping on AI, which most people are either indifferent to or entirely against with a few vocal proponents who have little objectivity and has a funding structure akin to a pyramid scheme.

Remind me why I bought into this ecosystem?

It wasn’t that.

Also I hate the “unlimited potential” statement because it’s a cop out. I don’t buy stuff because of potential - I buy it because it’s immediately useful. Smells like another meme market play.
 
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Leasing Google Gemini and calling it Siri is not groundbreaking or changing the world. After 16 years, the best Apple can do is scrap their own work and lease AI from another company? Massive failure. Apple is also ignoring the fact most people don’t want AI. Look at the backlash Microsoft is going through after forcing AI into every aspect of Windows.
 
cocacolakid said:
Leasing Google Gemini and calling it Siri is not groundbreaking or changing the world. After 16 years, the best Apple can do is scrap their own work and lease AI from another company? Massive failure. Apple is also ignoring the fact most people don’t want AI. Look at the backlash Microsoft is going through after forcing AI into every aspect of Windows.
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The worst thing is the co-dependency Apple are creating on someone else's technology. Especially one with very dubious and opaque funding which can't possibly not make a long term loss in any financial modelling scenario I've seen.

And they can't train their own LLM models because that requires a lot of hardware which they'd have to build themselves and that would sacrifice their own product supply chain and impact revenue.

The whole market is totally and utterly bonkers.
 
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Expecting to see lots of interesting new products in the future. Folding iPhones, touch laptops, AR glasses are some of the few. Think for glasses to be successful, Apple Intelligence must improve. Waiting to see everything Apple will release in the future. Hoping that Apple will have nice fun colors for the Pro lineup too.
 
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Positively optimistic, realistically speaking the next year or so will still be “Cook’s pipeline” so maybe don’t expect bangers at this year’s WWDC
 
CalMin said:
I know that a lot of folks are down on AI but it really is having a huge impact on how I use personal computing devices on a daily basis. Being able to use natural language and actually being understood has been game changing. For Ternus to state upfront and early on feels that he understands that this is the direction that Apple needs to take.
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That's my hope, but Ternus has been along for the entire ride of the debacle of Siri since day 1. Maybe he complained softly our loudly, but he's also a hardware guy, not a software guy. I'm not at all convinced he or anyone else at Apple truly understands the implications of their utter failure to incorporate AI into the Apple Ecosphere. Apple's apps are still barely able to communicate between them. I am looking forward to the day when I can just tell a device what I want it to do, and it "knows" which code routines are best suited for that, and if my device doesn't have the code routines I need, it goes and gets them. In other words, I want to not care about apps anymore at all. This is coming, but probably not on an apple device. Tim Cook may go down as one of the greatest profit-making CEOs in history, and also as the primary precursor to the collapse of Apple due to his inability to actually understand the advent of AI (for the years before and after ChatGPT, etc.).
 
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CarAnalogy said:
Or just simply create a reminder via voice and have it transcribe something that makes sense and doesn’t leave me sadly shaking my head, as happened just before I read this comment.

Really hope Cook is setting Ternus up for a huge kickoff here.
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Yep. Ever since I foolishly updated my iPad to iOS 26, HomeKit is now 100% useless.
 
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urnotl33t said:
Yep. Ever since I foolishly updated my iPad to iOS 26, HomeKit is now 100% useless.
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Try creating a scene for each verbatim command you use. That’s what I had to do. On updating to 26 Siri started telling me I have no homekit devices set up when I told it to turn off living room lights. I created two scenes called living room lights on and living room lights off with those actions and suddenly it works again.
 
CarAnalogy said:
Try creating a scene for each verbatim command you use. That’s what I had to do. On updating to 26 Siri started telling me I have no homekit devices set up when I told it to turn off living room lights. I created two scenes called living room lights on and living room lights off with those actions and suddenly it works again.
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Yep I got those. Had those for many years. “Press and hold home button, Siri pretends to activate, it’s (daughter’s name) bedtime”. Siri says some garbage about finding things on the web. It worked the day before I updated. Not since.
Worse than before, now Safari eats 100% of the iPad CPU constantly. Even right now. Even with 1 tab open.
 
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