I’m assuming most of them arrived here, like I did, from the link on the home page to this thread. Please accept my apologies for not realizing which forum this was in - that definitely makes a difference.
I disagree.....the way they advertised Apple Intelligence and then failed to deliver on pretty much any of it has given Apple a black eye so to speak. Then if .....as you say AI wasn't supposed to debut until IOS 19 this coming fall.....then that even further erodes public perception and confidence. They really botched AI and underestimated the technology and the public's appetite for it.
Understand reasonable people disagree here, but I don’t think Apple “botched” it. Could it be a lot better? Sure. But, I find a lot of the writing tools pretty good. I think Genmoji are super fun, and my kid gets a big kick out of the Image Playground, even if I have no use for it. The notification summaries are amazing when they work (they seem to work great for me in iMessage threads but are inaccurate enough on other notifications that, yeah Apple got punched there.)
Just an example of what I mean regarding confusions on Android Customization. I'm currently watching a video from Sam Beckman about how to customize the home screen. He's good and I watch his videos on occasion, but once he got to Icon Packs (And I know what they are, I just don't know why whenever I want to create an icon pack, it doesn't work with all apps and it just ruins the whole experience) and the KWGT widget, I got completely lost. He talked about that app as if I was supposed to know everything about that app and I don't. So he went from an elementary school level in the first half of the video to a high school/college level in the second half and the rest of the video I'm just confused.
You probably don’t need much out of a smartphone lol… there’s nothing wrong with that.
You have to consider there’s millions of apps in the Google Play Store…. And obviously not all icon packs are capable of supporting that many icons. Devs/designers have to specifically create for those icons (they give users an option to request icons).
I disagree on it being a convoluted mess, it’s fairly simple to make a theme with 3rd party icon packs. And I enjoy using KWGT, admittedly there’s a learning curve to it. But after some time with it… it’s not too difficult to get the results you want, plus there’s plenty of 3rd party KWGT widgets.
You are correct about these tutorials not going in depth with installing 3rd party icons on Theme Park because it ends when they install it. They don’t attempt to find the missing icons…
Calling iPhone users ‘willing prisoners’ is fairly pejorative. How is it any different to Android use? Choosing Google’s loose ecosystem isn’t a morally superior position. They’re smartphones. Everyone has a different decision matrix of preferences and requirements, Android suits some, iOS suits others, some really do like foldable phones, and some really don’t. You choose your flavour and go with it. They all have pros and cons.
Apple are only suffering in some micro-YouTuber-verse where its a selling point. Yes, Apple is pushing it in their marketing but consumer reaction is that buyers just don't care about Apple Intelligence or AI in general. Its not as good as the competition but as few people are using it, nobody noticed.
At least with Sega vs Nintendo each camp had a point! Beyond hardware gimmicks on the Android side and a richer app marketplace on the Apple side the differences between the two platforms are swings and roundabouts. Each year one of them pulls another piece from the carcass of Windows Phone and webOS, calls it innovation and then it ends up on the other platform. Round and round they go.
Windows Phone was the only non-iPhone option that had a chance to tempt me away from my iPhones, but they died before it happened. A couple of friends had Windows Phones, and I loved them. If Microsoft hadn’t handled them so ineptly, I believe the smartphone market would have been much better off.
Palm were never going to compete because they lacked the pockets. Microsoft just couldn't stick with one idea. The base Windows Phone 8 was magnificent. It ran at high speed on low-spec devices and plugged right into Office and Xbox. Lumia devices were some of the best phones ever created with wild colours and useful features like manual camera settings. Up until recently the legendary 1020 could still hold its own.
i know, my neighbors here get over-whelmed and forget how to tie their shoes!
Maybe what we're in the middle of right now is like approaching a Give Way sign on the road - proceed with caution ... as you really don't know what's around the next corner. My Apple stuff does the essential things well and I have had a look at friends' Android devices. The synergy between devices is important to me and that means the link between Macs and iPhones. Let me know when Samsung start building Macs.
They were advertising AI features in commercials that were not available at the time the commercials were airing. Not all of those features are available today. It has been 5 months later. How is that not botched?
You can add magsafe with any decent case but Apple wont implement reverse wireless charging like Samsung's
anyone remember when Apple (Steve Jobs) said the iPhone 4 with 3.5 inch display was perfect. That no one would want a larger display.....then Apple went on to copy Samsung and others to make phones with bigger displays.
