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Some Apple Employees Have 'Concerns' About iOS 26.4's Revamped Siri

At the moment I have not been impressed with any AI engines that have been released, I’m still not sure how clever it really is or could be.

Amazon announced Alexa+ a long time ago and I haven’t found many recent reviews or anyone saying how amazing it is.

Maybe Apple, Amazon, and all the other companies hyped AI a bit too much, not realising how hard it would be to build a super smart assistant.
 
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Biro said:
My only concern about Apple Intelligence and Siri is the possibility Apple could take away my ability to turn off both in some future version of iOS, iPadOS and MacOS. For those who want them, fantastic. Knock yourself out.
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The simplest approach here is for Apple to build a new system extension or api that allows third party AI apps to access/control the OS so those who want deep AI integration with macOS or iOS they can do it by simply installing ChatGPT app or Gemini app for the rest of us we just won't use this api.
 
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Kidseeghost said:
Remember how some employees worried about VP and Tim ignored them? They were right. It looks like marketing people are running Apple and they care more about how the product looks in advertising than what it can do.
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What were they right about? The eye and hand tracking on the Vision Pro are incredible and the hardware quality is second to none. The software that drives it all works well. That plus the Apple Tax gives us a prohibitive price tag, but I doubt Apple expected a “hit” product with this. It’s a supercar of VR headsets.

Those ignored employees allegedly wanted to wait several years before releasing ANYTHING.

Sometimes, you just need to take that first step. Sure, we want something smaller, lighter, cheaper… but how do we get there? By taking the first step. That’s what Vision Pro is.

Danilamak said:
I’m sincerely don’t see anything useful, can you elaborate on this?
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Thinking as Apple, you don’t see anything useful to be gleaned from a version 1.0? The first iPhone wasn’t perfect. They iterated and improved. The same will happen here.
 
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Apple probably spends more processor cycles background listening for ad sales versus background listening for simple volume commands (Siri first time responses are at an all time low for me). Apple should query how many FU’s and other swear words are registered with Siri. It probably paints a bleak picture…”I won’t respond to that…”. On the other hand, I treat Grok and ChatGPT more respectful because I sense true intelligence. I can only hope the same happens with Siri…but I don’t know Apple. Get your sh*t together and fire the idiots that aren’t making this happen quickly!!!
 
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I7guy said:
It’s your opinion. Please explain apples point of view with some citations.

You mean the privacy focused aspect of it.
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Yes that’s why it’s not that great because of privacy and that was reported on years ago & it won’t change and it’s the exact same with the AI stuff as a company they are getting left behind in regards to this and it will continue to grow.

History tells us that the AVP is a flop and will not be successful no matter how hard they try with whatever tech is inside it.
 
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MacRumors said:
In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said some of Apple's software engineers have "concerns" about the overhauled Siri's performance. However, he did not provide any specific details about the shortcomings.
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My main “concern” would be Apple doing the bare minimum on RAM across devices. I think they overestimated what they could do on device with just 8 GB. But that’s the hurdle they must clear after the iPhone 16 series marketing blitz so I wish them luck.
 
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citysnaps said:
Chum in the water. And people fall for it hook, line, and sinker. Like so many times in the past. Cracks me up.
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It's his job, he makes seemingly a decent (good probably) living if it, gets fed some info from Apple, some from supply chain, gets fed wrong stuff and makes things up... got to put it in perspective, sometimes he's right, sometimes he's wrong...
 
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jarman92 said:
That's a possibility, but it's not like he published some details...he provided nothing. "Some Apple employees concerned" is no more a story than "Apple working on next year's iPhone"
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No it’s very much different because this was not only allegedly shown at wwdc 2024 & advertisements showing about it about it getting released then supposedly coming out in 18.4 then a press release to say it’s coming next year so it’s not a nothing story like apple are working on the next years iPhone
Because they don’t show a demo of the alleged fold coming soon.
 
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JPack said:
What exactly do you need additional details for?

The top AI boss at Apple left twice in a row for Meta. A bunch of senior AI engineers have left over the past year for the same competitor. Siri and Apple AI has had a rough start. Tim Cook made promises last year and this year about AI.

Do you really need someone to spell out what those concerns would be?
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IOS 26 sums it up as a company apple are not interested in AI at all and have used the makeover of the OS to disguise that
This Siri effort goes hand in hand with that & the individuals that have left that area of apple to go work for the companies that are pushing it.
 
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A nice picture from the Bloomberg article:

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Falco McGregor said:
“Concerns” is such a vague word it’s almost meaningless without more context. It’s a slow news week for Gurman’s paid newsletter so he needs to toss in something juicy.
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It’s actually a throwaway line within a longer discussion of Apple’s troubles with retaining AI talent and leadership.
 
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Happy_John said:
Slightly off-topic, but why does MacRumors advertise Gurman’s paid subcription Newsletter when they reprint (albert nominally paraphrased) everything he releases on his newsletter anyway?
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If you read the actual newsletter (which there are ways to not pay for), the vibe and context are often quite different from what MacRumors distills out of it.
 
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klasma said:
If you read the actual newsletter (which there are ways to not pay for), the vibe and context are often quite different from what MacRumors distills out of it.
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Fair enough. I just find it very weird that they both promote the newsletter but also take content from it. Redundancy is great in hardware, but head-scratching in journalism.
 
Bigbuddy1 said:
Yes that’s why it’s not that great because of privacy and that was reported on years ago & it won’t change and it’s the exact same with the AI stuff as a company they are getting left behind in regards to this and it will continue to grow.
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Or it won’t. These are all opinions. Frankly I think Apple will achieve its goals of ai integration with a privacy focused aspect of it.
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History tells us that the AVP is a flop and will not be successful no matter how hard they try with whatever tech is inside it.
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“History” tells us nothing of the sort.
 
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