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Some Apple Intelligence Features Likely to Require Paid Subscription
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The free tier gives access to ChatGPT4o which has very similar performance to 4.
Sure, but not exorbitant profits, that is the difference.
The fact is we are overpaying for the bug ridden products we get today. AI won't help with that.
You don't need legislation to vote with your wallet.
Pretty much the same, unless they don't charge for turning your lightbulb on and off that is. It is a bit ridiculous though that the are only making AI to monetise it all,
when none of them ever paid any interest in monetising their assistants before.
But I'll see what happens like yourself, maybe play around with Home Kit although I'd have to buy new smart plugs to fully integrate it.
It is not about legislation, it is about value for the price.
I would not care how much profit they generated if the software products were not bug ridden pieces of *&^%. In every case the software on Apple devices has better products that are not provided by Apple, but in the cases where Apple fails to allow 3rd party software, Apple's versions generally are terrible and bug ridden these days.
It had better be something compelling that they’re offering, it nobody will subscribe.
But they'll happily take a percentage of sales from the millions of 'free' apps on their app store that do gather your data and sell it on. Need to remember that when Apple is virtue signalling over privacy.
They will probably add it to an existing subscription (iTunes) and add another pay tier.
I wish the same. But highly unlikely. Take music app. Before apple music, it was nice, simple to use. Now they shove AM adds, and radio crap front and center. I have large library of my own collection, and now it is pain to use. Some features are gone, some are not working as they should. Total disaster. So color me skeptical, but I wish it will not interfere too much on the daily usage.
Classic Apple. Soon and you need to pay to turn on/off the iPhone.
Nah… Everything that runs on device is free, and everything that uses cloud will cost money.
Disagree. I don’t have bugs on my devices. I suspect in the case you are describing, it might be user error. I find the Apple products I have, great value. I just bought a PC Laptop during the week for legacy software because my eee PC finally died after 15 years. My god, there is a lot of trash out there. Low value PC junk. And it took 4 hours just to update it and 6 restarts out of the box! Thanks HP…. I could have seriously bought an M2 Mac Mini for less.
Apple Intelligence keeps getting more and more underwhelming, and it's not even close to being released
"useless" and then you list one useful feature...
Haha, hoisted by my own petard. I'd say I was doing it sarcastically, but actually I'm an idiot.
I read the newsletter—Gurman was clear that this could happen. He didn’t say he had sources saying it was happening. This is a sensationalized version of what he wrote. It might happen, but they have to prove AI works and is great before they charge for any part of it—this is all premature.
Samsung also said their AI features will require paid sub as well. the thing is, both Samsung and Apple's AI stuff are mostly just useless crap at the moment.