John Gruber has a long piece up in his site taking Apple to task for announcing and advertising what is essentially vaporware at this point. It’s worth the read.
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I don’t subscribe to Bloomberg so I can’t read Mark Gurman’s reports. But he posted this on Threads several days ago.
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If what he says about Craig Federighi is correct I’d be curious to know who inside the company was arguing something different and why their argument won out. People can have different opinions about vaporware (Meta’s Orion demo didn’t bother me) but in this case Apple wasn’t saying personalized Siri was just a concept, they were running a TV ad promoting it. Who signed off on that?
Tim Cook put out a letter apologizing for Apple Maps. Apple execs did a media roundtable about the Mac apologizing for abandoning pros users. But we’ve seen nothing of the sort with Apple Intelligence. PR put out one statement and the company has quietly removed that ad from YouTube and scrubbed website references to personalize Siri. That’s it. The whole thing is very strange and un-Apple like. What gives?
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple...
daringfireball.net
I don’t subscribe to Bloomberg so I can’t read Mark Gurman’s reports. But he posted this on Threads several days ago.
Mark Gurman (@markgurman) on Threads
NEW: Inside Apple’s Siri delays and the issues facing Apple’s AI organization. Details on Craig Federighi voicing strong concerns about the features not working, how long features will be delayed, projects getting killed and more...
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If what he says about Craig Federighi is correct I’d be curious to know who inside the company was arguing something different and why their argument won out. People can have different opinions about vaporware (Meta’s Orion demo didn’t bother me) but in this case Apple wasn’t saying personalized Siri was just a concept, they were running a TV ad promoting it. Who signed off on that?
Tim Cook put out a letter apologizing for Apple Maps. Apple execs did a media roundtable about the Mac apologizing for abandoning pros users. But we’ve seen nothing of the sort with Apple Intelligence. PR put out one statement and the company has quietly removed that ad from YouTube and scrubbed website references to personalize Siri. That’s it. The whole thing is very strange and un-Apple like. What gives?
