Craig Federighi Explains Phased Release of Apple Intelligence Features

[Mother Nature]

iOS 18 is not the first time they announced a feature/app in WWDC that will be released several months after the public release of iOS version that same year...

• ProRAW was not immediately available when iOS 14 was released
• ProRes was not immediately available when iOS 15 was released
• iPadOS 16.1 was the first release for iPadOS 16 completely skipping iPadOS 16.0
• Journal was not immediately available when iOS 17 was released [and is still not available on iPad to this day]
• Apple Intelligence was supposed to be the selling point of iPhone 16 aside from Camera Control but will only be out of beta maybe a few months before WWDC 2025

These are just some of the few that I can think of...

But ProRAW, ProRes and the Journal app work great. I tried Samsung's ExpertRAW and ProMode and some RAWs had inconsitent colors and some of them were not recognized by Lightroom.

 

[JohnC1959]

The AI rollout has been pretty bad but seeing how behind they are in this field, I can see why they can’t afford to ship an Apple branded AI that’s a buggy mess. However, what’s far worse is how this impacts the iPhone 16…

These were supposed to be the first AI designed iPhones and we still have no word on 16 exclusives like visual intelligence. No matter how cautious they want to be with AI, they should have had some features ready to ship with the 16. I haven’t seen such a fragmentation since leaving Android years ago.

Having some or all of AI out when the iPhone released certainly would have been nice but I can't see any compelling reason why it must/should have. Software and hardware often follow their own paths with a few interdependencies here and there. I bought an 16 pro (up from my 13 pro) and have enjoyed some features I lacked before. and soon enough I'll have some more features to try out and see how well they fit into my routine. In a few months yet more features will roll out. In other year yet more features that I can't guess at will come. It's just they way it is with most all companies that make hardware and software.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Having some or all of AI out when the iPhone released certainly would have been nice but I can't see any compelling reason why it must/should have. Software and hardware often follow their own paths with a few interdependencies here and there. I bought an 16 pro (up from my 13 pro) and have enjoyed some features I lacked before. and soon enough I'll have some more features to try out and see how well they fit into my routine. In a few months yet more features will roll out. In other year yet more features that I can't guess at will come. It's just they way it is with most all companies that make hardware and software.

I don't think they should be marketing it like this

Hello, Apple Intelligence

"Apple Intelligence coming this Fall"​

Link: https://www.apple.com/iphone-16-pro/

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[JohnC1959]

I don't think they should be marketing it like this

Hello, Apple Intelligence
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"Apple Intelligence coming this Fall"

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Perhaps though they elsewhere simply say designed for AI. And the first release featuring AI is only a month or so after the phone came out -- hardly so long as to leave most crying fowl.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Perhaps though they elsewhere simply say designed for AI. And the first release featuring AI is only a month or so after the phone came out -- hardly so long as to leave most crying fowl.

Whatever works for ya I guess

I'm fundamentally against buying any tech where future features are being talked about

Apple used to be above that practice

As it stands right now, it'll be interesting to see how much of Apple Intelligence is even fully fleshed out before we are a few months away from ... yet another iOS and iPhone release

(it's exhausting that they must maintain this Wall Street driven drumbeat for forced updates)

 

[CaféPicasso]

Perhaps though they elsewhere simply say designed for AI. And the first release featuring AI is only a month or so after the phone came out -- hardly so long as to leave most crying fowl.

Here in the EU they don't even mention Apple Intelligence in the iPhone 16 Pro product pages. It's absent. For a reason.

 

[TechnoTiger3000]

That's exactly what they're doing.

Have you seen the interview?

 

[svish]

Was a good video. Expecting Apple Intelligence features announced in future versions of iOS/macOS to also have a staggered launch.

 

[brofkand]

iOS 18 is not the first time they announced a feature/app in WWDC that will be released several months after the public release of iOS version that same year...

• ProRAW was not immediately available when iOS 14 was released
• ProRes was not immediately available when iOS 15 was released
• iPadOS 16.1 was the first release for iPadOS 16 completely skipping iPadOS 16.0
• Journal was not immediately available when iOS 17 was released [and is still not available on iPad to this day]
• Apple Intelligence was supposed to be the selling point of iPhone 16 aside from Camera Control but will only be out of beta maybe a few months before WWDC 2025

These are just some of the few that I can think of...

none of those were tentpole features though. Apple intelligence is in every single ad for the new iPhones and none of the new iPhones have these features yet.

 

[CaptainBlue]

Initially, Apple Intelligence will only support U.S. English, with additional languages planned for next year.

Funny how this date keeps slipping...

 

[rezwits]

My software philosophy is very simple; "If you are going to mass produce something, don't mass produce $#!+, mass produce something great..."

So do it right and then mass produce it...
the Windows and similar Linux philosophy is "take a $#!+ first!"
And don't pick up your dog "$#!+"

I am with Apple, their philosophy works for me!

I use macs 5-10 years way after they are vintage or even obsolete, I have a use for them...
than just a simple PC for playing video games and then watching tv then going back to the PC
to play the "same" F.P.S. version 2024 over and over again.

Alright I'll stop LOL

 

[Puiz]

Dude, stop saying “Apple silicon-powered iPads”: every iPad ever sold in the past decade has Apple chips, unlike Macs, which switched from Intel. Such oversights are pretty damn unacceptable for people like you who literally get paid to know this stuff.