Hopefully more news outlets will continue to pile on Apple for this debacle. Out of all the bad things that have happened over the last decade with Apple, this has fundamentally shaken my faith in the company.
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Kuo: Cook Should Personally Address Siri Apple Intelligence Failure
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Or maybe don’t announce the thing in the first place until they get it functioning properly on their devices & then you have evidence to back up your claims
Citation for the “head of software had doubts it could work”. Are you saying back then Apple knew it wouldn’t work, knew it would be delayed but announced it anyway? It so a citstion is in order because that’s speculation.
Because all they did was announce a future feature. It didnt pan out and they delayed it.
Again why announce something that wasn’t working correctly in the first place & no actual evidence that it could ever work successfully
Yet they still went ahead & announced it in hope that it would work
If Tim Cook is not going to make the decision to fire anyone over this debacle, like he did with the Forstall and Maps situation, it falls on him, pure and simple.
Exactly someone chose to not take the advice of the guy that’s actually in charge of the software & decided to put it out there anyway knowing fine well it wasn’t working correctly.
With all due respect, Steve Jobs blamed a customer in writing by email at the time.
“You're holding it wrong”.
After that, there was a press conference with two hours of self-congratulation about how great Apple is and a pointer to the competition. “Look, if you hold a BlackBerry with two hands, the transmission power also goes down.”
So Apple should do a press release with the quintessence “We are so great and look at ChatGPT, there are poisoned recipes. All users of OpenAI will probably die.”
Yeah?
I don't like the term "fanboy" but there are definitely those who will go to the ends of the earth to defend Apple, and as someone who has used Apple products since the Apple II (as a kid), I find it quite strange.
Damn you’re right. The kids don’t think of Steve Jobs when they think of Apple. They’re just that company that makes the blue bubbles and the AirPods and the emojis.
Okay. You cannot prove anything. It’s just that you believe apple knew Siri wasn’t working wwdc 24 and wasn’t going to work.
I believe Apple thought they could get it work at wwdc 24. At the end of the day all they did was announce a delay.
Not sure what that means. Your next purchase won’t be an apple product? Or you will not upgrade any existing apple hardware?
If that was the case it would be working by now & not delayed for about another year.
Hence the issue of why it shouldn’t have been announced in the first place back in June 2024
I think what this highlights is, can they be taken at their word? Does this change that assumption? I'd say, on the whole, Apple has delayed but delivered in the past but this year will be a notable exception if the Swift tools and the personalized index is pushed to the next milestone release. They have until the WWDC keynote to make it happen. They put a bulldog project manager in place. Can it be done in 4-5 months if it all started over? Who can say, but the timeline is laid out before them so I'd expect lots of crunch time in the future for all the teams involved. If they can pull this off, to me that shows Apple works best under pressure and perhaps their market-leading status has made them slightly complacent. If it doesn't work in their favor I guess that's a discussion of a different type, and we can really only have it after the fact. Time will tell, people are caught up in the hysteria so it's hard to find the signal in the noise. Reminds me 2021.
This may be beyond that. Apple Intelligence was the key marketing point for the most recent iPhones. This explicitly included an upgraded Siri. That marketing was highly misleading if not flatly untrue. The way Apple has addressed this to date was with full knowledge of all of those things. This accordingly is not a mere failure such as "Antennagate," but rather a sly coverup. Worse, and as Gruber pointed out, this is clearly indicative of a broader problem that has manifested itself in other ways.
Apple still does many great things, and Tim is entitled to credit for those things, but the rot is real and it is clearly a bing part of what Apple has become. Time for the Board to clean house, starting with bringing in a new CEO. Tim can apologize all he wants, but he owns the rot.
Apple still does many great things, and Tim is entitled to credit for those things, but the rot is real and it is clearly a bing part of what Apple has become. Time for the Board to clean house, starting with bringing in a new CEO. Tim can apologize all he wants, but he owns the rot.
This just goes to show that Apple intelligence wasn’t even ready for iOS 18 in the first place & had to push it out because they were seen as losing ground on their competitors hence why we now have this issue
Best quip so far! Along the lines of:
George: All my keys say ‘do not duplicate’.
Kramer: ...Such a sweet kid!
No, because Apple, in good faith, thought they could get it working. You are suggesting they made the announcement in bad faith.
I have had this philosophical conversation more times than I can count.
For me, I take apple at their word. If something is delayed, then it’s delayed. It doesn’t mean I can’t take Apple for their word, because it’s not even about that.
Here goes: (Thick Tony Soprano accent) ...so I says to Craig 'Hairdo' Federighi; 'You're killing me here! I gotta refill these machines across the entire campus...but I can't coordinate with my guys on account that this new Apple Intelligence thing is a steaming pile of shiet. So now I'm outta 100 grand and I gotta pull Tony 'The Toenail' Dimitrio and his crew out of Buffalo to make up the slack.' Even Luca is pissed and you don't want that heat coming down on you cause he'll kill ya... and then he'll go to work on ya.
According to people here, you're a dummy for believing Apple marketing. This is on you.
“For me I take Apple at their word”
If the company had acted in good faith then they wouldn’t have announced the new advanced Siri at wwdc 2024 & waited to see if it actually worked consistently in the first place.
Again this comes down to Apple intelligence not being ready for iOS 18 & the company playing catch up with competitors by announcing features that don’t actually work in the first place & there is no defending that