ChatGPT is telling addicts to take meth so thank God Apple is taking its time in getting it’s OWN AI right not like the other usual suspects who couldn’t care less about releasing dangerously flawed products just as long as they are first and the media glamorizes their “business foresight”
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Apple's ChatGPT Rival Moves Forward, But Siri's Future Still Uncertain
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💯 — they might score better in benchmarks and testing, but in real use they have all fallen off a cliff in usefulness.
Of course, Google and them are working on it, but have they actually released it?
Also, while everyone is going on about personal context this and personal context that, I think a lot of users would just be happy if Apple updated the “ highlight to look up” menu to include results from Gemini and ChatGPT, along with the current sources of the dictionary and Wikipedia. That plus “visual intelligence” integrated into the photos app and the screenshot UI would immediately make iOS feel significantly more advanced than today, and Apple really wouldn’t have to do much.
Many people own more than two Apple devices. I don't know why they don't extend Apple Intelligence across devices, so you can use the compute of an iPad or Mac to work alongside your iPhone in answering queries.
'Airtelligence?'
'Airtelligence?'
They usually setup shells to make the offers and acquisitions, then absorb the shell over time. It keeps companies from trying to play their success and cash hoard against them.
That is to say that they are very likely making offers and even negotiation and many aren’t even realizing it is Apple they are working with.
I just read that Samsung were about to do a deal to use perplexity! Apple misses the ball again 🤷♂️
Apple is catching up on technology where others had 5+ years of headstart. The argument was that they can take their time. I’m saying that I don’t think they have that luxury, because the world isn’t standing still.
According to Bloomberg, Apple is also eying a deal with perplexity to make it one of the default search engines in Safari, along with integration into Siri.
The Samsung deal honestly confuses me seeing as they already have Google on their side, literally all of the demos from last week’s I/O conference were done on a Samsung phone, so 🤷
Every LLM relies on the cloud. Apples challenge has been they didnt want to put things back in the cloud again...but LLMs are not reasonable locally yet. So they got their garbage compromise.
Not to be “that guy”, but I believe I mentioned that either just before or right after “Apple Intelligence” was announced.
I was looking at getting a Garmin fēnix 8 and found myself thinking that Apple’s biggest problem is that they insist on doing everything proprietary. If they partnered up with Garmin, Apple Watch hardware would make dramatic leaps and Garmin can probably offer a ton of improvements to the garbage heap that is WatchOS.
The same can be said with a lot of the rest of their non-core (pun very intended) offerings.
That funny cause it was mark and Bloomberg that I read about Samsung ! So Bloomberg is just saying everything to see what sticks 😝
I see your point and it makes sense from that standpoint.
But that position is also what lead Apple to to be so far behind the industry in emerging technologies like AI to begin with.
I am not sure Apple can ever catch up with the industry without buying an AI company at this point.
Its not like they can't afford to pay or even over pay for an AI company. Latest search says Apple has about 180B in cash reserves......they can afford it.
I’ve not used it, but I have a coworker that raves about Kagi.
Didn’t Perplexity recently have a massive privacy issue come to light? I’d ask an LLM, but who knows what sorts of nonsense they’d hallucinate?
I had a Garmin Fenix 7x and it was amazing with almost 3 weeks of battery life.....
That would only really make sense for older, non-Apple-Intelligence-capable iPhones, and that would in turn stand in the way of new iPhone sales. For the rest, Apple is splitting its AI functions into on-device functions and cloud-based functions. So the on-device capabilities are not inherently a limitation — just good for marketing/privacy/offline use. Furthermore, most iPhone users don’t own an iPad or Mac, nor carry them around with them all the time, so it would be a rather niche use-case.
I had one when they didn’t have AMOLED screens, and that dim screen was the only real drawback. They’re not really that much more expensive than an Apple Watch Ultra and you get a ton more of actual use for the money — especially since so many apps have fled the WatchOS ecosystem to save money on developers’ salaries.
I do not think Apple problems are unsolvable so they just need to make sure that common stuff works well enough and advanced third party models are well integrated so they match competition then they can push boundaries if they have brains for that.
Anything by Elon Musk is automatically hallucinatory simply because Grok’s founder lives in a constant state of hallucinations. Even Elon admits his bladder is wrecked because of the amount of Katamine he does.
Also, Grok is not the best AI model anymore. Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI ChatGPT o3 have the edge now. But…it all depends on what kind of computer, cloud instance, GPU or even Cerbras’s Wafer scale chip in which the chip itself is the size of a motherboard, is running said AI. And ALL of them fail to truly be hallucination and AI slop free AND fail miserably at anything that can be remotely considered “AGI” which Sam Altman has backed completely away from saying that ChatGPT is close to obtaining “AGI” and even he says he can’t really define what that means anymore.
Siri was introduced in 2011 with iOS 5, thanks to Scott Forstall. At that time, Siri was ahead of its time. Forstall was innovation-minded. Tim Cook, being the MBA degree-holding mediocre corporate suit that he is, did not realize nor appreciate the value of Forstall's visionary mind. That's why Cook fired Forstall in 2012, which was only one year after Siri was released. Had Cook never made the biggest mistake of his career by firing Forstall, Siri would've likely been a lot more advanced and reliable by now, and would likely lead the industry instead of being far behind.
It has only been ruined on tech forums by those who love taking a swing at Apple everyday.
As for myself, i use Siri every day, multiple times, and have no issues. Ditto with my friends.