Well Ford has been around a hundred or so years so there is that.
Its active user base and financials say otherwise.
And all the products that sell with msrp above the Vision Pro? They are for rich people also?
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Some Apple Employees Have 'Concerns' About iOS 26.4's Revamped Siri
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But it must be said there's gro versions one with just apple models and one with Gemini built in so guessing it's the apple one which has concerns
Apparently 400,000 AVPs sold while yielding an extra $1.4 Billion in revenue for Apple qualifies.
Agreed. If people say AVP is a flop not sure what to say to that person.
Millions of users are worried about revamped Siri. Not just few employees.
It's a great product just badly priced and it's only been put on the back burner to get the glasses out which will use vision OS btw.
Would say millions don't care about Siri and that shows in phone sales
Most likely, random employees are “concerned” because they haven’t been privy to seeing it yet.
Personally, I don’t care. Chatbot is not the major function of Apple Intelligence, and the practical and useful features that it’s enabling in all sorts of applications that I use is the real story. While ChatGPT hooks into merchants so that OpenAI benefits both from making product recommendations that favor its advertisers, and from closing and fulfilling sales of products from those sellers, gathering data all along the way to help it maximize it and its partners’ revenue, Apple continues to lead the effort to build systems that keep you private and put your interests ahead of anyone else’s.
Sued by Apple? He's a paid controlled leaker, writes exactly what's he's been told to tell.
This Gurman statement says absolutely nothing. People have opinions, including employees. Could be disgruntled employees, unreliable employees, you name it. Sounds very clickbait-y from Gurman.
User bases can shrink. Perfect example is Blackberry and Nokia. Both of these companies once had enormous user bases. Now they're in the dustbins of history. Apple should never take its large user base for granted or a guarantee of anything.
Sure and Ford and Gm could also go out of business and the earth could get hit with a huge meteor.
Point is there are lessons to be learned from those who went before and the standees hopefully learn some lessons. (Not specific to Apple)
Just asking is this a gotcha question
Regarding the AVP
I suppose it’s like Siri how can you tell that it’s not really that good
Or Apple Intelligence is amazing
And the reports that the new Siri is struggling is we know
True but people have been saying apple is doomed for 10 years and it's been wrong every year
Al is obviously new and where Al doesn't matter is Gemini and chatGPT works well on iPhone certainly when you can map shortcut to Gemini now
The only legitimately good lessons to be learned from Apple are the ones that came from its former (and deceased) visionary founder. Those after him are just Wall Street mouthpieces.
Apple has the opportunity to do the funniest thing if it’s delayed to iOS 27.
Apple needs to buy Anthropic which makes Claude (or something similar) although they may be valued too high at this point. And Zuck is just wasting them when it comes to buying up what little talent they do have. They’re really screwed when it comes to AI. Leadership is too old to understand the current landscape.
Apple needs to buy Anthropic which makes Claude (or something similar) although they may be valued too high at this point. And Zuck is just wasting them when it comes to buying up what little talent they do have. They’re really screwed when it comes to AI. Leadership is too old to understand the current landscape.
I never said Apple didn’t get anything out the Vision Pro. It got plenty of ridicule for example, and also a lot of distraction for the technology trends that actually matter (generative AI above all).
What are the worse flops? There are a few, but I suppose the ones that stand out the most are the social network Ping, the game console Pippin and the never released car which cost a fortune and didn’t even come to fruition.
The original HomePod is absolutely a flop, a terrible product with bad pricing which sold next to nothing. It wasn’t a first cut at a technology that led to something else, all that followed was the next HomePod which is even worse (they removed some components to slightly lower the price) and the HomePod mini which has none of the technology of the large HomePod and it’s just another smart speaker with mediocre sound quality like the ones from Amazon or Google.
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Apple Security Team found that a flaw in function execution can lead to privilege escalation across apps. With AI function integrations and tokenized permissions, inaudible audio injection becomes an attack vector. Whereas the original Siri sandbox restricted many critical functions, Apple Intelligence’s plan to expose photos, calendars, email, and other sensitive capabilities enlarges the attack surface, ultrasonic commands could effectively act as a covert control channel. A strict API scoping, hardware-backed token storage, and microphone/audio-path filtering and detection is need it, and that's what the fuss is all about.
I'm not concerned. I expect it to stink. I stopped using Siri a long time ago with maybe the exception of replying to text messages via CarPlay. Even then, most of the time it's an"Eat ups Martha" moment that requires me to correct Siri 3 times before Siri gets it close enough so as to not make the recipient of my message think I was angry at them, or lost my mind.
At this point with botched rollouts of MacOS 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, the Glass UI update and the utter debacle of Siri, Apple is in real danger of becoming in some ways of being looked at like Intel. An aging tech behemoth who makes some of the best slideshows and presentations on new technology but utterly fails to execute on the promised technology those slideshows present time after time.