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Report: Apple Intelligence Delayed to iOS 18.1 in October
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It would only have been available in a fraction of the world either way and even there only in a fraction of the install base. And there have already been polls that AI is not a device-seller (it just makes Apple look behind if they don't have/announce it). So, Apple is probably in no rush
While Siri is in dire need of improvements, I'm not exactly sure what parts of Apple AI are going to be so useful that they'd warrant buying a new iPhone.
Like, yes, again, the Siri that can understand everything and context and tone(I'll believe it when I see it) would be very useful as a sort of secretary or very basic personal assistant.
But what tasks specifically will you be doing with Apple Intelligence all the time that will improve your output or make your "digital life" easier?
Not yet. All tech related things started small.
It also doesn't really matter if you (or I) believe this is going to be a major factor. It's best to look at those who have the most knowledge about it... and the people with the best insights inside the biggest companies surely do believe it is going to be a big factor. In the past quarter, for example, Google alone already spent $2 billion on AI development. If there were any doubts among them, they likely wouldn't even spend hundreds of thousands. Instead, they are spending billions. In 3 months time.
That sounds like a zinger to most of us. But I actually think that's accurate.
However, I will gladly eat my words if they manage to get Siri to understand tone and context at the level shown in WWDC.
Have you ever used their translation app introduced years after the competition? It's awful. Just awful.
And their failure to offer more languages is remarkable.
It is.
And how is it they can’t offer synonyms when you input words in the other language ?
The people who have the most knowledge about it aren’t typically the ones who are making the budgetary decisions.
I encourage anyone, for example, to listen to this podcast episode with a Google senior staff engineer who is also the author of a popular deep-learning Python library: https://www.preposterousuniverse.co...eep-learning-and-the-meaning-of-intelligence/
It’ll be a factor in one way or another, for sure, but nobody really knows how it’ll end up and which investments really make sense. At present, the investments seem to be motivated more by FOMO than by anything else.
This was 100% my worry. I thought all along the 15 pros were “minimum” requirement to get AI to run on iOS, but sure wasn’t optimal requirements. I am sure Apple didn’t want to tell people that, but it sure does seem like that now.
I am sure that you can just unlock the Apple intelligence Features in the EU just with the help of a US Apple Id that is just signed in to the App Store, not the whole iOS with Backups and so on... On macOS it works very good with Mirroring
They probably don’t want another maps fiasco. doesn’t take embarrassment very well. I’m all in on the betas, though. It’s just wild that they could be releasing 18.1 to developers so soon. Lots of exciting times coming ahead.
They thought it was going to help sell the iPhone 16, now it won’t even be ready for when the phone launches. iphone 16 looking like a real dud.
Hopefully that will change with iOS 18 as they finally introduced customization like on Android
Work from home effect still lingering.
I knew this Apple AI stuff was gonna have a ton of software bugs and would need a lot of developers and non-developers to be the gunie pigs 🐷 to test this stuff out, as Apple has never really implemented AI on a large scale like this or ever implemented AI.
Probably best to wait till iPhone 17 if you want a smoother bug free experience
Probably best to wait till iPhone 17 if you want a smoother bug free experience
With a name like Apple Intelligence, did you really think it would be ready? It's a joke. That's apple's intelligence for you.
You don’t have to guess. Apple already announced the hardware that will support Apple Intelligence:
iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max
2022 iPad Air (or newer)
2022 iPad Pro (or newer)
Any M-Series Mac
Yet you still buy their products or, even worse, don’t buy them and just come here to complain, why again? Seems like a huge waste of of time to me but to each his own I guess….
I actually quite like Apple’s translation features. It has problems (like any translation software). But genuinely like using it.
Your “offer more languages” comment though: That’s fair.
-Edit- Although, I don’t use the app itself. I just use the built-in Safari translation to translate web pages. I’m assuming the tech powering both is the same (but I don’t know that for sure).
