People complain when Apple releases a new feature before it's ready. People complain when Apple delays a feature until it's ready. People is crazy.
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iOS 19 Rumors: More ChatGPT-Like Siri, Some New Features 'Postponed'
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Because the marketing realities of 2024 do not make that release schedule practical anymore.
Apple is not at all the same company it was in 2008.
Welcome to MacRumors 😁 People always complain, no matter what.
I guess many are still working at home. I'm hearing "Postponed" more often.
Because then they’d have to make the iPhone 17 models work with iOS 18, which would be extra work.
Maybe they’ll overhaul Safari or Messages like they did this year with the Photos app. Be careful what you wish for.
The purpose of an OS is not to provide entertainment.
They won’t stop tying the major-version OS updates to new iPhone model releases, because the OS updates do drive new iPhone model sales. It may be irrational, but people are less likely to update their phone if the new one will run the same old iOS version they’ve already been using for month.
As Apple spends more time investing in things I’ll never use, I’m investing more time replacing their core apps and services. After 14(?) years, I’m slowly dissolving my reliance on the Apple ecosystem (still, no Google for me).
Now, had they come out of the gate with a usable Siri, at least retaining the functionality the original developers created, I’d be more trusting of the service. Years of asking Siri to do basic tasks and getting little to no response means it’s just dead weight.
Now, had they come out of the gate with a usable Siri, at least retaining the functionality the original developers created, I’d be more trusting of the service. Years of asking Siri to do basic tasks and getting little to no response means it’s just dead weight.
I get that, and it’s the same for me. It seems like they are just throwing stuff around and working on this and that on periphery while ignoring core functions and problems. Not sure how else to explain it. There are bugs and things missing that have been a problem for years now.
As for Siri, I just don’t get the appeal of virtual voice assistants..not just from Apple, I just don’t use them at all and don’t like talking to my tech. We have google assistants around the house, and I don’t use them for functions other than a speaker or occasionally settings timers. I never use Siri, at all, even when using CarPlay. I have it disabled on my Mac.
Launching in 1.5 years and some features still postponed?
Tim Apple, you're not late but the best in AI, you're just late and last
Tim Apple, you're not late but the best in AI, you're just late and last
Hey Siri, call Mr. and Mrs. Jones.
- "I'm sorry. I can only call one person at a time"
While this couple don't have a mobile phone: I just want to call their landline. It's a single number, with a single contact card.
Apple is criticized when it doesn't clarify its roadmap, and now it is being criticized for doing just that--clarifying its road map. Never in the history of Apple have we had more clarity on where things are headed. My M1 MacBook Pro is three years old. The current version is an M4. I can, with a fair bit of certainty, predict that if I wait until Black Friday 2026, I can get an M6 MacBook Pro for roughly the same price or a couple hundred bucks less than I paid for this M1, and it will be something like 30-60% faster than the M4 and likely 2.5 times faster and more capable than my M1. it will be running MacOS 20.1 Likewise, in fall 2027, I will be able to purchase an iPhone 19 to replace my iPhone 15, it will be running iOS 21, and will be functionally 1.75 to 2.5 times faster and more capable than the iPhone 15 it is replacing. On all my Apple devices by then, I will be running the new Siri, which might actually be functional, in case I care.
For me, the integration of AI is proof that the manufacturers (whether Apple, Samsung or Microsoft) can't come up with anything more.
The rhythm of annual updates has been squeezed out, trampled on and flattened.
It would be best if Apple could be a pioneer here and postpone the next system upgrade. To 2026.
Maybe a bug fix update in 2025.
But this “let's throw in half-baked and mostly useless AI features so that we can present something as new” is pointless.
And I'm not alone in this opinion. Every survey, every study, every interview shows the same thing:
Users are suspicious of AI and see no added value in it. No manufacturer manages to sell this stuff.
Please, Apple.
You don't have to take part in this act of desperation. Sell your devices as “almost bug-free” because you only made corrections for a year. That would be an argument.
The rhythm of annual updates has been squeezed out, trampled on and flattened.
It would be best if Apple could be a pioneer here and postpone the next system upgrade. To 2026.
Maybe a bug fix update in 2025.
But this “let's throw in half-baked and mostly useless AI features so that we can present something as new” is pointless.
And I'm not alone in this opinion. Every survey, every study, every interview shows the same thing:
Users are suspicious of AI and see no added value in it. No manufacturer manages to sell this stuff.
Please, Apple.
You don't have to take part in this act of desperation. Sell your devices as “almost bug-free” because you only made corrections for a year. That would be an argument.
They need to go back to underpromising and overdelivering instead of the overpromising and underdelivering they are doing now. Also, get rid of the yearly software updates and focus on actually cleaning up the code and the bugs instead of rushing **** out.
Depends on the device though? All of the Android phones are so different and have different features.
I’d like this. Maybe we can get all iOS 18 features first! Make iOS 19 focus on stability and small refinements/QoL updates. Push any major features to iOS 20.
But then Apple are really behind with AI and it’s all the rage so maybe they feel like they need to get their AI stuff out asap.
