It only works on devices with 8GB of RAM minimum. that is why it works with the iPhone 15 Pro, the M-series iPads, and the M-series Macs. Any phone older topped out at 6GB. When the iPhone 15 was going into final specs 2+ years ago, the idea of running AI on a mobile device was crazy talk.
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Report: Apple Intelligence Delayed to iOS 18.1 in October
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What is the good OS out there, then? Please enlighten us.
I honestly had wondered if Gurman had died or something. He’s been MIA for weeks. No more newsletters.
Maybe they are going the route they did with IOS 16. Just jump right to .1 for the betas and then that will be the "launch" skipping .0?
Listen, I get you may be a die-hard for apple, but their software has been a mess for awhile (this also isn't to say other OS's do not have their issues). This is talking about apple software. Don't get upset or offended, if you use apple you should want them to improve their software.
Siri is the worst out of all of them (and apple has made it worse since they bought it years ago, hence why they are rushing to the AI train in hopes of making it suck less).
They should be able to run both concurrently. Aren't we doing that with 17.6 wrapping up soon and 18.0 beta cycle that concludes in Sept? The question now might be is 17.6 the EOL except for patches on occasion for the next 2 years?
They can cancel it for all I care.
AI? Yawn....
AI? Yawn....
There is none, unfortunately. They all have significant shortcomings.
Have you tried any AI solutions? ChatGPT's paid subscriptions are extremely good already and just in the last 12 months already has become exponentially better. Microsoft's Copilot is very good as well.
I know for many people it's still a bit of a 'buzz word'. I understand that, because a lot of companies that are introducing 'AI tools' are just calling it AI for the sake of marketing. But, for example, the real large language models are already very, very good.
Look behind the hype and shady tools some companies are offering. There are some really good tools out there and a companies like Alphabet and Apple should be rightly worried. In the past year, my usage of Google has rapidly decreased for example. It's not that I don't have questions or that I am not looking for information. What has happened is that some of my usage shifted from Google to some AI tools.
It's only a matter of time before these tools become more accessible and easier to use for regular people. If companies like Google, Alphabet, Apple or Microsoft aren't providing these tools, than they'll lose lots of customers in the next decade. Of course, again, look past the 'hyped up' and 'shady' AI tools that a lot of companies are trying to sell as AI.
Similar things have definitely happened a few years, maybe not .1 update but betas not perfectly aligning with RC on street date hardware
Do you remember this:
Apple faced enormous backlash and it's one of the few times in their history where they basically were forced to respond and do some very public damage control. They kicked off their 'damage control press conference' by playing this song.
Ok, so basically iOS 18.1 betas will equal 18.0 betas + AI bits. Surely then, everyone whose device will support AI will be going for iOS 18.1 betas, dropping away from iOS 18.0. A strange beta cycle indeed.
I’m a ChatGPT subscriber, but, to be honest, I don’t find that much use for it.
They ususlly do eight (8) betas not four and I do not think that ios18 is done being develop. This would be an odd schedule.
Getting it right is a bearable excuse if the delay is not exaggerated and if they actually get it right upon release, but at least in recent years, Apple never does. By now, they are already almost two years behind in AI release, and they never get major features right on release even after exaggerated delays. I expect at least some AI major features to be delayed even beyond October, Siri probably delayed til Summer, and they still won't get any of it right. But since I am an Apple user, I am still rooting for Apple, and I am always hoping for pleasant surprises.
Tim Cook is so clueless that he makes Apple hoard cash instead of spending enough of it on fixing bugs and ensuring that enough programmers are hired to make sure that software is not released half-baked.
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Yeah, Siri is a mess, has been for years. Everyone acknowledges that. There have been some basic issues in the way it's designed that make it hard/impossible to improve, and they've absolutely hit a wall years ago.
But outside of Siri? I work 40 hours+ a week on a Mac, and spend god knows how many more hours on my iPhone and Apple TV -- and they work brilliantly. Are there bugs? Sure. There will always be bugs. But I've been using Macs for decades, and I find they're more reliable now (hardware side and software side) than they were 10 years ago, and definitely more reliable than 20 years ago. MacOS used to be straight up unstable. I used to hard-reboot from something or other several times a month, if not more. I can't even remember off the top of my head the last time I had to force a restart. (Hell, I was helping my mom with her old MacBook Air, and her uptime was like two years because she opens it, uses it, and closes it again and never restarts. Real unstable software, huh?)
Same with my iPhone. Rock solid. I rarely if ever power it down, and it just does what it's supposed to day after day after day. If I have an issue, it's 99% of the time some third-party app that's not doing what it's supposed to. Not saying it's perfect, but if you're waiting for software to be perfect, I have a feeling you're gonna be waiting around a while.
should have waited till next years wwdc but they had to say they are doing something
Apple is usually not the 1st with features but they usually in the end make those features high quality under there standards
I guess they will limit iOS 18.1 to devices that will actually be able to support the AI - so currently only iPhone 15 Pros and M1 iPads and newer. All the other devices will stay on iOS 18.0 beta stream.