Wait. So, it’s 60-80% NOW so when they demo it, I’m guessing it was around 20%? If so they had no business demoing it. I’d at least hope it was 60-80 when it was announced.
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Apple's Delayed Personalized Siri Features Are 'Working' to Some Extent
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I am simply ignoring Apple Intelligence and have it turned off on my devices until it's shown it can do something genuinely useful I can use or cannot do without.
While I agree that buying a product based on promised features is a bad idea, I completely disagree with what you’re saying.
This is obviously a fundamental Apple problem. The fact that someone buys something based off what Apple promises means that they trust Apple. The fact that Apple is now just your typical tech company that announces vaporware and doesn't deliver means that we can no longer trust Apple. That is absolutely an “Apple” problem not a “you” problem.
The prerecorded keynotes feel like adverts
Not only does live keynotes create a human connection between Apple and the outside world but it also forces them to actually MAKE the features they announce in time for WWDC to do a demo.
Nope, Apple just lied.
You're 100% blaming the victims here.
On the bright side this has taken almost all the attention away from the controversial camera bump that it appears Apple is set to introduce as part of the new iPhone 17 lineup.
Hmmm…
WWDC 1998: Mac OS X announced, wouldn’t ship for another three years..
WWDC 2004: Tiger announced, didn’t release until April 2005.
WWDC 2005: Leopard announced for a late 2006 release.
WWDC 2006: Leopard demonstrated, scheduled for an early 2007 release.
WWDC 2007: Leopard demonstrated once again as it had been delayed from an early 2007 release to an October 2007 release. That is now two delays.
WWDC 2008: mobile me and push notifications announced for a September 2008 release. Mobile be launched and was a disaster, push notifications were pushed back until June 2009 with 3.0 instead of 2.1 as promised.
WWDC 2009: multimedia messaging and tethering released internationally, not available in the US until that September.
WWDC 2010: white iPhone 4 announced and scheduled for July, actually released in April 2011. iOS 4 announced for the iPhone and iPad, delayed for the iPad until November. Game Center announced for iOS 4, delayed until 4.1.
WWDC 2012: iCloud integration announced for OS X Mountain Lion, delayed two months after the initial release.
WWDC 2013: iCloud Drive announced for iOS 7, delayed until a month after initial release.
WWDC 2014: new Apple photos app announced, not scheduled to be released until the following year, which would be 2015.
WWDC 2017: messages in iCloud and AirPlay 2 announced for a fall ship date, didn’t end up shipping until May of the following year.
Delays are not new.
Running advertisements for unreleased features is, and it was a massive mistake, but almost every year of the iPhones existence they have saved a feature or two for a later date.
As long as they are semi-usable internally I’d say we can call this whole thing a success. Bravo, Apple!
Wouldn't be an issue if apple didn't announce vaporware when they knew damn well it wasn't ready. Maybe go back to the underpromise and overdeliver. Then again that is too much for penny pincher Tim.
60% of the time it works every time lol.
Apple response: We are not gonna compensate us and we think you are gonna love it.
While my wife's iPhone 13 Pro Max (1TB) and my iPhone 14 Pro Max (1TB) were working just fine, one of the main carrots to upgrade was the much hyped AI would be operational.
In Apple's web page model comparison between the two iPhones above and the iPhone 16 Pro Max (1TB) there probably less than five changes (other than the "A" chips) between model years. Most there in the real world use were minor.
So, yes Apple's domestic and International advertising for their entire product line saying the gear was AI ready and so were AI features being touted as ready. There were NO adds since the release of the iPhone 16 series saying "Gotcha and your money too" because AI is vaporware.
At least Steve Jobs came out after the barnyard muck hit the fan to apologize and say what they were doing to clean up the mess. Not one "expletive deleted) word from Tim Cook to even acknowledge the events were less than truthful because the Apple lawyers probably told him to keep quiet and hope it blows over without a class action on deceptive advertising hitting the financial papers. Gotta protect that stock price at all costs, screw the customers dollars to the wall.
In Apple's web page model comparison between the two iPhones above and the iPhone 16 Pro Max (1TB) there probably less than five changes (other than the "A" chips) between model years. Most there in the real world use were minor.
So, yes Apple's domestic and International advertising for their entire product line saying the gear was AI ready and so were AI features being touted as ready. There were NO adds since the release of the iPhone 16 series saying "Gotcha and your money too" because AI is vaporware.
At least Steve Jobs came out after the barnyard muck hit the fan to apologize and say what they were doing to clean up the mess. Not one "expletive deleted) word from Tim Cook to even acknowledge the events were less than truthful because the Apple lawyers probably told him to keep quiet and hope it blows over without a class action on deceptive advertising hitting the financial papers. Gotta protect that stock price at all costs, screw the customers dollars to the wall.
Possibly a SEC and FTC violation as well as seeding cause for a class action.
I see the issue here.
You’re mistaking personal buying decisions for corporate obligations. Let me clear that up for you: Trust is earned over time, not granted blindly based on marketing. If someone chooses to preemptively believe every corporate promise without waiting for delivery, that’s a them problem, not an Apple problem.
Expecting a trillion-dollar company to be flawless is naive; making purchase decisions based on wishful thinking is irresponsible.
But hey, if accountability makes you uncomfortable, I can see why you'd prefer to shift the blame.
That Apple's timeline to deliver personal context is obvious after the fact. What I'd like the pundits and commentators to deliver is more info on why they picked that deadline (possibly without blaming it all on the stock market) and what went wrong along the way.
So yes, Apple is late, but even Google who jumped on the AI train way earlier isn't there yet. Looks like they are targeting next summer to release their personal context assistant.
So yes, Apple is late, but even Google who jumped on the AI train way earlier isn't there yet. Looks like they are targeting next summer to release their personal context assistant.
Marketing vaporware to artificially drive hardware sales and bump the stock price... is.
Wonder if this will raise some eyebrows at the SEC.
You are supposed to be loyal and defend Apple no matter what, and deny that Apple is behind in AI, and say that Apple has been using AI before everybody else, say that Tim Cook can run a trillion dollar company, that Apple designers and engineers know best, and show off image playground as proof. /s
Tim doesn’t understand the technology or the incompetence or competence of anyone who’s not related to finance and supply chains.
Not sure the SEC has had their gutting of staff yet but it won't be long before that happens. The over active side kick functioning as primary wants no oversight or accountability for products or actions in his economic empire.
You are right, Apples misrepresentation here deserves accountability from Apple.
Unlikely, this isn’t the first time a software feature linked to hardware has been delayed.
Tesla being obvious example to point to.
But then, if you’ve lost Gruber…
I mean to be fair they ran a lot of expensive time slot commercials showing a feature that people really wanted. And then they put a tiny disclaimer at the bottom saying it was coming.
So the real question is, why were they allowed to run an ad like that? Surely that violates some sort of rule, or should. They literally had concept video of a non-working product and used it as a selling point, withholding it from all but the very most recent of phones, as a selling point. Or if you don't believe that last bit was a selling point, then it is an admission that they have been under-speccing their devices for the price, as people have long said they were.
So yeah, don't buy products based on future updates, but in this case it was based on an outright lie saying the features did exist when in fact they did not.
They have been doing this with Siri since the very beginning. Look up the many attempts to replicate the gazpacho conversation Samuel L had with Siri in 2011. It's never worked like they said it has, but at least then they had a plausibly working product that did in fact work to some degree and did in fact ship when they said it would.