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iOS 26.4 Beta Launches Without Apple Intelligence Siri Features
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How f***ing challenging is this? Apple isn't even having to design a LLM from the ground up. They're basically using a wrapper.
This is honestly insane. Some crazy autists were able to crank out OpenClaw basically over night. What excuse does Apple have at this point for this mess?
The crazy thing is that OpenClaw is insanely effective. The security issues it has as a hacked-up assistant are not great (obviously), but, again, it was essentially done in a basement. Not by a multi-billion dollar public company with thousands of employees and engineers available.
This is honestly insane. Some crazy autists were able to crank out OpenClaw basically over night. What excuse does Apple have at this point for this mess?
The crazy thing is that OpenClaw is insanely effective. The security issues it has as a hacked-up assistant are not great (obviously), but, again, it was essentially done in a basement. Not by a multi-billion dollar public company with thousands of employees and engineers available.
Itinj24
macrumors 601
Would be really funny (not really) if the 16P won’t be able to handle the new Siri.
I was thinking last night night how pathetic Siri seems next to even Amazon’s Alexa. That’s just a sad commentary on how Apple has fallen from the forefront of technology.
If you think it’s that easy to integrate a third-party model across multiple systems without compromising privacy and security while not having to redesign your architecture, then perhaps you should apply for the job.
Having more people in a team is chaos and doesn’t make getting things done faster or easier.
k1121j
macrumors 68020
Glad it’s not just me because it’s normally annoying to have to repeat yourself and ask things twice and now they’re just completely different with weird responses that we’re not used to getting. I found myself raising my voice to Siri the last couple weeks lol
k1121j
macrumors 68020
We have eight HomePod minis and two HomePods, five of us in the house for quite the number of years now Siri had plenty of time to learn our voices and it doesn’t matter what room you’re in how noisy or how quiet it is. It’s just worse than normal.
I think this is the most relevant part of the whole article. Why is it buried at the bottom rather than being at the top? Oh, hang on, because that wouldn't be as clickbaity. Silly me.
My brother in Christ, it doesn't take a period of years when others can do it in far less.
Stop white knighting this utter failure from Apple.
Look. I love Apple. I'll never go back to an Android or PC on my end. Fully into the ecosystem. A bit of a fanboy, even. However, this is a ****ing joke. The fact that they keep screwing this up is absurd.
I appreciate the sentiment but I’m an atheist.
No one’s finding excuses for Apple’s failure to deliver promised features here. I’m merely explaining the complexity involved in the integration of Gemini models specifically.
Apple is not known for being the first to the finish line, and they didn’t foresee the AI craze. And adding to the troubles is Zuckerberg being a douche once again and poaching all their top employees.
Apple definitely has the resources to beat the market, but they didn’t really see the need to throw billions every year for vaporware. In the end, it was poor leadership and some financially conscious decisions that got us here.
Again, I'd be fine with this line of logic if Apple had put out the word about the feature 6 months ago and we had an initial delay. However, we've had a non-functioning Siri for years with a promise of an actually functional one also for years.
I mean, at some point, we need to be able to just say that Apple completely misread the market, completely misread the use of an assistant (after utilizing OpenClaw on a sandbox'd Mac Mini, a functional personal assistant is INSANELY useful), and essentially lied to its customers.
Apple has lost any and all credibility it had on the AI side. It's going to take a lot to rebuild that as well.
This is Apple's equivalent of, "It's infrastructure week (again)!"
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
Well for me I have all of the faith and confidence they are going to do what they say. No credibility lost. With google rolling out ai throughout their products I’m finding it’s a waste of screen space at times, so I’m glad Apple is taking their time with this.
Anyway we all have our views on this.
Image playground has been updated at least twice, the quality is always improving.
Improved Siri is basically Gemini. Not sure why its even called Siri anymore.
Which is Macrumors' interpretation based on a Tom's Guide article where they also interpret it that way.
BillyJoeJimBob
macrumors regular
A better plan: Allow end users to select any AI platform they choose to augment and support Siri. This would prevent the inevitable corner into which Apple will paint itself. It will also avoid perceived data weighting and manipulation present in the Choiceless Plus business model.
Release the thing already, will ya? Sheesh. Almost two years since the announcement for a product already years behind the curve, and not even a beta.
johnsawyercjs
macrumors 68000
True! Good god but chatbots can often fluff up their responses, like they're being paid by the word. You can tell them not to, but I haven't tried that yet since I find some of those replies semi-amusing.
I tried configuring ChatGPT with custom instructions but that never lasted. Le Chat seems to behave so far.
This was about a year ago. Apparently Apple has made some true progress in their AI. Now if it only knew what "plumeria" were when I'm searching my photos!