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Google Makes Fun of Apple Intelligence Siri Delay in Ad Promoting Pixel 10

This was actually a well done ad. So many companies are cringey when coming after Apple. They did this in a really classy and understated way. Dare I say this ad was almost Apple-like, including in the way that Apple used to take down Microsoft back in the day? They don't have to name names to be effective.

Google is still evil though and will eat your privacy for breakfast, lunch and dinner with an inherently less secure operating system to boot. But at least their AI is better, lmao.

Apple just needs to buy someone like Anthropic for Claude and move forward from there. They need to open up their war chest against Zuck or they're going to miss the moment entirely and we'll all be doomed to having zero privacy because let's be honest, Apple is the only company that even gives a crap at this point about your data belonging to you and nobody else.
 
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Google is too boring and predictable! To take a photo you give it a voice command to take a photo.

At least iPhone users have a secret language! You can take photos with a voice command “turn up the volume”.

Intuitive is way overrated! Apple should do ads with this.
 
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bmustaf said:
The point of the Pixel is not to sell units en masse. Not even close. It's not even to be competitive feature/spec wise.

In many ways, it's an anchor point and something for carriers to have as a strong/very strong baseline they can heavily discount and a line in the sand for other (Android) manufacturers to "to better" than in price/performance.
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"Pixel is just a reference device to encourage other manufacturers to make better products"

...has always been the excuse for Pixel's lack of sales.

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Pudlo said:
jesus...who cares about some Ai or other useless things when we got new icons and glassy look. Noone* has that!

*except all windows users 15 years ago
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Right? That’s the best they can do after 10+ years of the iOS 7 era design. It’s really the same design with a few tweaks, it really isn’t a redesign and it pissed me off how Apple gaslights with their persistent confidence in their words while marketing 26 as a completely new design. It’s not. It’s iOS 19 with a facelift.

The fact that my iPhone on 26 is recognized as being on iOS 19 says it too

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WarmWinterHat said:
Apple just announced record revenue for the previous quarter, and the largest growth since 2021; he isn't going anywhere.
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As Steve Jobs said:

"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."

They made “record revenue”, but remember - revenue is their KPI. If they hit more than before, it’s because it’s expected of them. They make more and more every year. Just like “it’s out best iPhone EVER”. It’s our highest revenue EVER. It’s just gaslighting stakeholders into false reassurance. Apple hasn’t made a lot of good products in long time, they keep facelifting their legacy products but whenever they try something new, it turns out to be a flop. The new product category Cook brought up is a flop, Siri and AI are a flop and an embarrassing one, HomePods…look, it’s a good speaker but a smart speaker? Yeah, no, flop.

Apple under Cook is a company good for making revenue, but their products as of late? Boring. I couldn’t be bothered to upgrade my iPhone since 2022, and I still regret I did.
 
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thiscatisfat said:
As Steve Jobs said:

"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.

So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
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All true, but Steve has been dead almost fourteen years and it's not his company, products or vision anymore. Shareholders and the board of directors aren't even thinking about asking Cook to move on; he'll head out, for better or worse, when he is ready.
 
WarmWinterHat said:
All true, but Steve has been dead almost fourteen years and it's not his company, products or vision anymore. Shareholders and the board of directors aren't even thinking about asking Cook to move on; he'll head out, for better or worse, when he is ready.
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At least Cook is bringing in revenue, he’s smart enough to be able to do a few mistakes here and there without getting Apple bankrupt. If they don’t replace him with a product guy, they’ll replace him with another accountant who will hopefully be at least as good as Cook. But damn I wish Apple put a product guy in there.
 
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victorvictoria said:
Don't get me wrong, I worked for Apple. Everything in my smart home is HomeKit. All our computers, tablets, phones, TV controllers, AirPods, and watches are Apple. We will never switch. Not even for some machine intelligence. I've used ChatGPT extensively, and it's all but useless for a consumer level client. You need tech advice? You'd be better off with YouTube!

That said, yes, Apple has again fallen into the same trap that has hindered its progress in the past, particularly under Jobs, but continued under Cook. And that trap is an obsession with secrecy and closed system of proprietary hardware and software. Yes it does provide a seamless user experience. Yes it does prevent Apple from taking advantage of the marketing hype of the AI movement.
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I feel bad for you, you're missing out on some amazing technology that is available from other companies because you are afraid to step outside of the Apple stratosphere.
 
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If you buy a phone because of ai features... you may not know what Ai is actually good for. Ai is far from a "must have" on any phone; in fact I might even go as far as to say not having Ai built into Siri is a BONUS in some ways.

Plus, when Apple releases theirs, it will likely be better and have features Android will be scrambling to copy. This is there MO.
 
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digidude said:
If you buy a phone because of ai features... you may not know what Ai is actually good for. Ai is far from a "must have" on any phone; in fact I might even go as far as to say not having Ai built into Siri is a BONUS in some ways.

Plus, when Apple releases theirs, it will likely be better and have features Android will be scrambling to copy. This is there MO.
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This does tend to be the Apple argument. Apple can’t do it therefore it’s not worth having.
 
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When you sow vapourware, this is what you reap. AI and Siri are a weakness at Apple as a result of decisions made with their modern culture, and not the culture that brought them where they are, allowing them to coast in many areas for many years. Getting egg on their face is not a bad thing, it might make them that much better, or expose them for not being capable of better. Either way, time will tell. At the end of the day people are choosing iPhone over Pixel and the numbers aren’t even close. So the reasons for that are where Apple needs to make sure they never drop the ball hard enough to lose advantage.

Tim just doesn’t know what makes a great product. The people that do need more power. Hardware and software synergy are what set Apple apart. That is fading as hardware quality is incredible, and software quality continues to dwindle. Time to balance it in more areas than just AI or Siri. Even if Apple loses on Siri and AI, but maintains and rebuilds Apple goodness in all other software areas, they will continue to succeed and keep a loyal customer base. People like Dye and Federighi have proven for long enough that they don’t have what it takes to lead in their positions. Given the Siri team shuffles as well, it is clear Tim Cook doesn’t know who to put anywhere either. Srouji was a total hit however, and the rest suited marketing better.

Dynamic affordance and user interaction in iOS/macOS 26 are horrid in so many areas, it is a clear indication they need an iron fist to come down. But Tim doesn’t have the acumen. I’m not even sure he knows that. How it looks and how it works (Apple’s very definition of design) are out of whack and a much bigger problem than Siri IMO. Yet Siri and AI focus may rock the foundation in a worse way, or has it already?
 
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clg82 said:
I feel bad for you, you're missing out on some amazing technology that is available from other companies because you are afraid to step outside of the Apple stratosphere.
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It’s not about being afraid. Windows is a PITA to use, Android is also PITA to use. Apple has it’s faults but I would rather chew an old boot than willingly daily Windows and Android. I have to use Windows 11 for work and it’s dreadful. You can sh*t done, but how you get it done is just on a different low on Windows. Android is absolutely horrible hot mess. Apple keeping junk out is a good thing, and Apple not wanting to share their polished stuff is absolutely fine. Why would anyone voluntarily use Android or Windows is beyond me, macOS and iOS are just superior. Period.
 
I don't want any of these AI features, and they will have no barring on me getting my next iPhone. And certainly would never make me want to switch to android.
 
Developing AI is obviously a lot more expeditious when you don't have to care about customer privacy. As a core part of the surveillance economy, it makes sense that Google can just put the vacuum cleaner in turbo mode and Hoover up anything and everything for their LLMs.
 
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