FALSE! We just got word from Tim Cook, "I have never felt so much excitement and so much energy before as right now. The product pipeline, which I can’t talk about: It’s amazing, guys. It’s amazing. Some of it you’ll see soon, some of it will come later, but there’s a lot to see.
Same here, but they DID push the 16 because of the Siri AI availability across the board. Which is what this is totally about. It is sort of comical tho
Pretty much only as an AI chatbot, not as an AI assistant integrated with the OS that has access to your personal data stored in Apple apps so that it can use that data to set alarms, check your calendar, Messages, Photos, change settings, etc. Apple sandboxes this data on iPhones so that third-party AI apps like Gemini, ChatGPT, etc. can't do that. Gemini can do some of the same things with Google's cloud-based services if you use Google Mail, etc., but most iPhone users probably don't, compared to those who use Apple's apps.
Maybe it has been an embarrassment for employees of Apple, but for me, as someone who bought a 16 Pro Max after those announcements, but certainly not because of those announcements, it has honestly not been something that I have cared about a lot (if at all). I, as a mere iPhone user, have nothing at all to be embarrassed about. That said, for those who do care about those features, that is a really good ad.
Do you have some evidence of that, but you would much rather give Tim free access to your money for one year to earn interest
you should, it's actually cool to turn on gemini live and then use the camera, you can literally ask it about anything that you see and it's like a real person giving you info
Don't cry for me, Argentina. I haven't even scratched the surface of the current technology available from Apple, having retired in 2015. You can't name any windows or android or OpenAI that will improve my life, or even hold my interest as a theoretical. (and I've been a Microsoft shareholder since Windows 3).
Or use global thermonuclear war as a population control and to combat global warming.
Yeah, you're right, I'm just being generous, I guess, because if you aren't I think you just end up provoking the "Apple can do no wrong" fanbois and I just don't have the energy or desire to deal with the "Apple is amazing with no exception ever" zombie hoardes that the facts sometimes provoke.
Luckily, as more and more things go web-app/PWA/just plan web-friendly, it's becoming less and less of an issue. Just Google Docs/Sheets on the web (and the first party apps of these are actually great on the device), Slack, and VibeTunnel, Jira, and a few others things and I can get away with just the Fold 7 for most things I need to do (mostly management, business line stuff, some light PR review, maybe occasionally some prototype dev to show a concept to the team developing something). Means I can travel nearly indefinitely with just the Fold 7, a fold up keyboard (love the ProtoArc TP), and maybe a powerbank/very small solar panel (depending on season/where I'm going). Hell, the Starlink Mini is now the biggest thing in my kit.
When you put the anti-Google/Apple fanboi mindset/Cupertino-tinted lenses aside, it's actually really fun/interesting to see the very intelligent/strategic gamesmanship that goes on between these companies, their regulators, etc. But, sure, I mean, if you want to just write it off as an "excuse" because "Pixel just sucks" or "Google is just dumb" or whatever belief underpins comments like that, by all means..."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.
No one actually buys the iPhone anymore because they like it. They buy it because they are imprisoned in the iMessage/FaceTime/airdrop closed system and can't escape without it being really annoying.
