iOS 19 Will Include AI Battery Management Feature

[Haiku_Oezu]

So we’re just gonna call everything AI then?
Like you just know if AI wasn’t a buzzword right now this would be called something like “Smart Battery Saver” or “Automatic Battery Management”

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

Yes... not knowing what it's doing is how Apple got to manufacturing and selling 600,000 iPhones per day, every day of the year (on the average). Making it one of the most successful tech companies in the world with 1+ Billion active and repeat customers.

I don’t think it’s that deep, I think they were just lamenting the OS seems to be feeling a lack of direction and cohesive vision which I lowkey agree with

I don’t think it’s because Apple has lost the plot tho, I think it’s a byproduct of smartphones being really mature, like what is the competition even doing right now?

Foldable are the only really new thing happening in smartphones and it’s very gimmicky and clunky, if we only look at the software space all everyone is doing right now is shoehorning AI in which can be nice but for the most part is just adding minor features

I don’t think iOS really needs new features right now, I think it needs to just become a good, solid platform and maybe a redesign

 

[SactoGuy18]

They could have also just gone with the time and include a silicon carbon battery in the iPhone 17 "Air" or whatever and show of its advantage. "Thin but powerful" but Apple isn't in the game to provide its uses the best experience anymore. Instead they will probably offer a MagSafe powerbank for like 149€.

But who's to say that the iPhone 17 Air will use such a battery anyway? There are several manufacturers of silicon carbon batteries in China and Apple may have secured a source for such a battery, only for the iPhone 17 Air model given the relatively small production run compared to other upcoming iPhone 17 models.

 

[contacos]

But who's to say that the iPhone 17 Air will use such a battery anyway? There are several manufacturers of silicon carbon batteries in China and Apple may have secured a source for such a battery, only for the iPhone 17 Air model given the relatively small production run compared to other upcoming iPhone 17 models.

In that case the capacity should be much higher

 

[Tagbert]

So we’re just gonna call everything AI then?
Like you just know if AI wasn’t a buzzword right now this would be called something like “Smart Battery Saver” or “Automatic Battery Management”

It’s likely that Apple is using the kind of machine learning AI that they have been using on a lot of things for the past decade or so. This is probably not an LLM AI, but is probably still is an AI. That is a very broad term that covers a lot of software that “learns” as it operates.

 

[antonrg]

Yep... People have been saying that since Apple released iPhone way back in 2007, totally turning the mobile phone space upside down with its superior technology, features, ease of use, and seamless connection to Apple's ecosystem.

Today... I've yet to see *any* competitor phone coming even close rising to what Apple pulled off almost 20 years ago. Apple continuing to regularly innovate is what's keeping them ahead and their 1+ Billion active and repeat customers happy and manufacturing/selling 600,000 iPhones per day.

There will always be the sky-is-falling people saying Apple could lose it all any day now. That's been happening for almost 20 years.

And there will always be the people who blindly defend a company that has become less interested in products and more in revenue at any cost.

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

It’s likely that Apple is using the kind of machine learning AI that they have been using on a lot of things for the past decade or so. This is probably not an LLM AI, but is probably still is an AI. That is a very broad term that covers a lot of software that “learns” as it operates.

Yeah AI is a broad term but I swear, it was not that common before the LLM trend

 

[citysnaps]

And there will always be the people who blindly defend a company that has become less interested in products and more in revenue at any cost.

It's not a matter of a company of being "blindly defended." It's simply looking at Apple's iPhone sales data going back to 2007, and the fact that Apple has 1+ Billion active and repeat customers.

In other words... it's looking at and interpreting *real data* versus *wishful thinking/hoping* that Apple could fail at any moment. It's kind of like believing that planet Earth could could be consumed by the Sun at any time.

 

[antonrg]

It's not a matter of a company of being "blindly defended." It's simply looking at Apple's iPhone sales data going back to 2007, and the fact that Apple has 1+ Billion active and repeat customers.

In other words... it's looking at and interpreting *real data* versus *wishful thinking/hoping* that Apple could fail at any moment. It's kind of like believing that planet Earth could could be consumed by the Sun at any time.

I am not wishing for it to fail, in fact, it's not in my interest at all. I am fully in their ecosystem. What you don't seem to understand is people can criticise a company based on their own experience with their products as of late.