Unfortunately, it was manufactured by Apple. At one level, I think “Who cares? Schedules slip.” But, no one forced Apple to sell the iPhone 16 based on Apple Intelligence when I’m sure there were numerous people screaming that the schedule was too aggressive and wouldn’t be met. This was a high-stakes game of schedule chicken manufactured by Apple. It appears Apple may lose.
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Kuo: Cook Should Personally Address Siri Apple Intelligence Failure
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Unfortunately, it was manufactured by Apple. At one level, I think “Who cares? Schedules slip.” But, no one forced Apple to sell the iPhone 16 based on Apple Intelligence when I’m sure there were numerous people screaming that the schedule was too aggressive and wouldn’t be met. This was a high-stakes game of schedule chicken manufactured by Apple. It appears Apple may lose.
Cook's free ride is over. He needs to get the ship pointing right again, or take his golden parachute.
Isn’t this “outrage” over the top? How many people bought a device that has Apple Intelligence specifically for those delayed Siri features? This isn’t antennaegate, where that issue actually affected the basic use of the product.
If ever there should be an apology, it’s about how Apple hasn’t focused on its software for a very long time, other than making features nobody cares about, just to wave the shiny new thing with a new OS release
If ever there should be an apology, it’s about how Apple hasn’t focused on its software for a very long time, other than making features nobody cares about, just to wave the shiny new thing with a new OS release
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It makes sense because you can't go promising things that are never going to happen. If they worked well, it would have been a game changer. Turns out it's awful or non-existent.
Too little too late. Cook is cooked already. R.I.P Timothy…
OK… imagine they'd announced what they'd shipped to this point back in June.
The thing would have been over in about 4 minutes!
Copilot is incredibly useful, I know because I use it in an enterprise setting every day. I don't use it on my gaming PC at home so maybe that's a different version?
TBF, Siri improvements was one of the few Apple Intelligence features that I and many others cared about.
True, and I’m certainly not as doom and gloom on this as others.
I just feel it would be in their best interest to get ahead of the story and clear up some of the speculation.
Of course, not a super technical explanation, but a simple “we’re sorry we let our customers down and will try to get these features working as soon as possible” would do some goodI think.
Agree on both points. Anyone feeling ripped off broke the golden rule of tech purchases which is buy it for what it does today, tomorrow may never come. People that made a purchase on promises, well, that's entirely on them.
Siri has always sucked and been next to useless to the point of irrelevance and Apple Intelligence is much the same. Something about the culture at Apple the last few years in that they aren't tapped into what consumers actually want/need vs. what Apple thinks they want/need. There's a disconnect there. Like they don't interact with actual users anymore and live in their own bubble.
That thin-lipped condescending stare. Goooood morning meat bags!
Doubt it’ll happen. It’s not just Apple. The AI grifters will have to admit their entire bubble is going to burst.
The first high profile failure will trash billions in hours.
The first high profile failure will trash billions in hours.
No, it wouldn’t, did you even watch the keynote from last year?
They announced all of the operating systems, and saved Apple Intelligence for its own dedicated little 30 minutesegment at the end.
Literally if you slice off that Apple Intelligence portion, you still have over an hour of keynote.
People forget, even though it’s literally only been a couple months, iOS 18 had quite the number of features before AI.
I think many of us are doing fine without AI.
I really hope the whole industry slows down, thinks about what they are doing and what the implications will be.
Because I’m fine for certain AI based special systems for image analysis etc, but I’m not happy with AI that invades every part of my device and my interactions with it.
I’m even less happy about the issues surrounding the data used to train the models.
I really hope the whole industry slows down, thinks about what they are doing and what the implications will be.
Because I’m fine for certain AI based special systems for image analysis etc, but I’m not happy with AI that invades every part of my device and my interactions with it.
I’m even less happy about the issues surrounding the data used to train the models.
At this point, some of us don’t trust Apple enough to know there is a software solution to the current situation. If some aspects are started from scratch, hardware already sold as “Built for Apple Intelligence” may, or may mot be sufficient. Time will tell.
The AI and Siri features Apple delays is actually quite complex to design. I can wait. It helps to be a public beta tester. You get new features sooner.
An apology is not going to happen, as I imagine an admission of guilt is not good from a legal perspective. There was specific advertising for features used to sell last year’s phones that Apple is now covering up. They know litigation is a threat and they want to avoid it. Unless the stock price tanks, he’s going to keep his mouth shut.
This is not the same company it was fifteen years ago, and it’s definitely not the same CEO.
But hey, the potential overhaul to the OS suite in a few months will serve as a nice distraction to shift the narrative and that’s all we’ll be hearing about instead.
This is not the same company it was fifteen years ago, and it’s definitely not the same CEO.
But hey, the potential overhaul to the OS suite in a few months will serve as a nice distraction to shift the narrative and that’s all we’ll be hearing about instead.
They have to prove that they weren't just lying about what they were capable of delivering. Because it smells an awful lot like they were lying to ride the AI bubble to keep the stock market happy while everyone else was actually shipping AI features.
This is a lot of drama about what amounts to normal happenings. Delays happen. Would we prefer Apple release a version they know does not work?
So are they just late on delivering the software feature or is the hardware not good enough to support the feature?
There isn’t a software or a hardware solution for this. The whole idea doesn’t work for the domain it is being applied to.
Apple was being trashed by tech journalism for their AI stance compared to lots of other vendors who delivered nothing of value.
Apple too delivered nothing of value.
This technology peak is not intelligence. It’s a shady mathematical trick which is good enough to fool people without the objectivity to see through it and think of it in terms of not the promise but the constraints.
I’ll take the extra base RAM though.