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Apple's Smart Home Hub Now 'Postponed' Due to Delayed Siri Features
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Apple products are full of AI, and it’s much more useful than chatbots - crash and fall detection, 3D with LiDAR…
I think they shouldn’t have entered this Gen AI madness like they did, because now all tech journalists who don’t have a clue say that “Apple is behind on AI, it’s embarrassing, etc.”
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Its the 'guess along with gurman' show again.
I swear some of these 'analysts' know as little as the rest of us but somehow make a name for themselves anyway.
After all, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I wish Macrumors and other YouTubers wouldnt give this buy the prominence he seems to get.
I swear some of these 'analysts' know as little as the rest of us but somehow make a name for themselves anyway.
After all, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I wish Macrumors and other YouTubers wouldnt give this buy the prominence he seems to get.
Why does everyone complain about the "reputation" or "track record" of rumor leakers?
This is how it works
They are going to be off a LOT
That's why they are "rumors" ... not "facts"
This is how it works
They are going to be off a LOT
That's why they are "rumors" ... not "facts"
Other companies don’t have those issues because they have other (more critical, from my point of views) issues: privacy, and allowing their chatbots to say crazy things.
Of course, it’s partially Apple’s responsibility to enter this Gen AI madness - AI chatbots are already almost a commodity, so there was no need for Apple to enter this muddy market: users who want it can use ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.
Hahaha, lmao! Apple’s fall detection and 3D LiDAR capabilities aren’t inherently AI. Fall detection is primarily sensor-driven with algorithmic logic, and LiDAR is a hardware-based 3D mapping technology.
For all the things Steve Jobs was great at, picking CEO's wasn't one of them apparently. Well, Cook has been a revolutionary CEO for the financials of Apple. But who among us cares about that? We want revolutionary inventive products. The financials should follow that.
I still think it should’ve been Forstall, but I can understand why some people objected to that type of decision.
A lot of people were sick of skeuomorphism, myself included, but the design ended up being better than what Jony Ive ended up showing off later on. I think Forestall would’ve grown a bit and loosened up to create an OS that is better than a simple grid that snapped app icons in place.
Tim Cook’s bad start was evident, but Forestall was the fall man. Rushing Apple Maps out? Absolutely falls on Tim Cook’s lap. The iPhone 4S disappointment? Also Cook. Siri? Also Tim Cook. Dude sucks as a CEO — always has been, always will be.
15 years later and we’re still dealing with AI blunders, lawsuits (Apple WAtch Oxygen monitor for example), a failing Apple Card, engineers that aren’t qualified to work for Apple, etc.
Tim’s the type of guy that you want being the CEO of a law firm or something… Not a tech company.
Nothing is delayed if it hasn’t been officially announced.
Apple has pushed back the launch of its rumored smart home hub due to delayed Siri features, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
Gurman no longer expects the home hub to launch this month, but he has not provided a revised timeframe for the device's release.
"At one point, the company had hoped to announce this product in March," he said, in his Power On newsletter today. "But because the device, to an extent, relies on the delayed Siri capabilities, it has been postponed as well."
In the meantime, he said Apple has started allowing select employees to test a pre-release version of the device at home.
This comes a few days after Apple said it needs more time to finish the more personalized version of Siri, which it previewed at WWDC 2024 last June. The promised Siri upgrades will be powered by Apple Intelligence, so you will need an iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
"We've also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps," said Apple, in a statement shared with Daring Fireball's John Gruber. "It's going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year."
Gurman said Apple was initially aiming to launch the more personalized Siri as part of iOS 18.4, which is already in beta and lacks any of the promised features. He then said that the features were delayed until iOS 18.5 in May, but Apple's statement suggests the features will take even longer to arrive. The more personalized Siri will likely launch at some point between iOS 19 in September 2025 and iOS 19.4 in March 2026.
Whenever they launch, the Siri upgrades will include understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls. For example, during its WWDC 2024 keynote, Apple showed an iPhone user asking Siri about their mother's flight and lunch reservation plans based on info from the Mail and Messages apps.
With these new Siri capabilities rumored to be at the core of Apple's smart home hub, it would make sense if the company has pushed back its internal timeframe for launching the device. It's not ideal to launch one without the other. This is not an official delay, given that Apple never publicly announced plans to release a home hub, but it is clear that Apple has missed its internal targets for the more personalized Siri and this related project.
Gurman previously said the home hub would be "Apple's most significant release of the year," as it represents the company's "first step toward a bigger role in the smart home." He said the device will be like a "smaller and cheaper iPad" that lets users "control appliances, conduct FaceTime chats, and handle other tasks."
The device is expected to be similar to a HomePod with a screen, with rumored features including a 6-inch or 7-inch display, an A18 chip, and Apple Intelligence support. Gurman said it can be attached to a tabletop base with a speaker, or mounted on a wall.
So, when will Apple's home hub launch? "In the coming year" probably applies here, too.
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Full of AI but cannot do speech transcription better than any of the LLM apps. The chatgpt integration was so bad because of siri’s voice to text gets so many things wrong.
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So the unannounced thing that Gurman was rumoring is delayed by another Gurman rumor? We need more sources for rumors. Gurman has spent the last few years just contradicting himself and walking back his predictions.
I disagree. I line iOS 18, it was a needed update. I like watch os 11.3.1. The successes far outweigh flops and cancellations.
Yes, the delays have downstream impact. Apple will release software when it’s ready. As a consumer , I’m glad they are doing that. Others will feel differently.Bravo 👏
Such a perfect description of what's happened to "Product" under Tim Cook and his particular vision.
All of this is where it is because of Tim and the directional choices he's made.
It's very sad
Yes. He will go down in history equivalent to Steve Jobs because Tim is a different kind of visionary than Steve Jobs.
Apple don’t always release software when it’s ready just look at Apple intelligence release during iOS 18 half finished at best
The only successful project Tim Cook has released has been the Apple Watch & everything else has been alright nothing to write home about
I think because 5 years.
It was ok, imo.
There’s a bunch of products and services if one looks.
it's probably pretty hard to get LLMs to that 100% accuracy Apple seems to expect. Also, that personal-data thing they are trying to to here is a first. But it probably won't be in the end if the likes of samsung, google,... get one more year.
Apple seems to be under the illusion to think, that they'd rather deliver unusable siri results ("I can't do that" "Here's what I found on the web") than being wrong, while in reality Siri often does both - and could profit from some context ("no, siri, I don't want you to set navigation to a small town 1000km away in another country, I meant that town 20km away with the same name"). Sure, LLMs do hallucinate, but I'd take 70% accuracy and the ability to correct mistakes or refine results if prompted over the current state of things.
Also, I guess, the design of that homepad is already finished, so it might launch with outdated hardware.
Apple seems to be under the illusion to think, that they'd rather deliver unusable siri results ("I can't do that" "Here's what I found on the web") than being wrong, while in reality Siri often does both - and could profit from some context ("no, siri, I don't want you to set navigation to a small town 1000km away in another country, I meant that town 20km away with the same name"). Sure, LLMs do hallucinate, but I'd take 70% accuracy and the ability to correct mistakes or refine results if prompted over the current state of things.
Also, I guess, the design of that homepad is already finished, so it might launch with outdated hardware.
No the Apple Watch has been his only major success everything else has been ok
No Apple intelligence has been a disaster I don’t even think it was supposed to get released with iOS 18 hence why the first part came out after the 16 models.
There is no need for cook to retire as long as people keep buying the same increment upgrades
Again, I asked for the weather today and it told me it couldn’t find where I was. I’ve been in the same place for years and yesterday it was perfectly fine telling me the weather in the city that I live in. I really hope that means that Apple was in the process of working on something in Siri and that’s the reason why it couldn’t find my location although it has not changed. Also, what does in the coming year mean? Does that mean sometime this year or sometime next year?
To be fair, airpods, the homepod mini, "pro" phones and the transition to m-series chips weren't that unsuccessfull either.