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Innovation is crucial for progress.
If it's that easy, Apple needs to fire everyone because they clearly haven't done it.
Exactly. After showing apple intelligence and how it was integrated into Siri, your calendar, email and texts, I went and purchased an iPhone 16. Now 6 months later, none of these things are yet available. More emoji's and more rainbow watch bands.... Time for Tim Cook to step down and some new blood at Apple. Pretty bad when Amazon (an online books store) produces software that is decades ahead of Apple.
Come on, it’s really not that easy and it would more than 6 million, but it’s a lot cheaper than buying OpenAI.
Whatever they're doing, it's clearly not working.
I think Apple is doing just fine on AI.
It’s pretty clear that “Apple Intelligence” was only announced because of investor pressure to do something. And those announcements turned out to be vaporware. That’s bad. But I don’t really think people cared about iPhone 16 having AI features, and fundamentally Apple is in a good position. The barriers to entry on making a decent LLM are close to zero. There is no need for Apple to be the market leader here. Most AI features on devices are gimmicks, and as for what’s not, Apple can just partner with OpenAI or whoever to bring those features to Apple devices. The money in AI will not be on consumer products but on B2B stuff, which Apple is poorly-equipped to do and is much better left to companies like Microsoft.
Apple’s AI pitch should be that Apple devices have the best and most secure processors to run your AI apps, which will be made by third parties. The across-the-board RAM increase is Apple’s most important AI move.
It’s pretty clear that “Apple Intelligence” was only announced because of investor pressure to do something. And those announcements turned out to be vaporware. That’s bad. But I don’t really think people cared about iPhone 16 having AI features, and fundamentally Apple is in a good position. The barriers to entry on making a decent LLM are close to zero. There is no need for Apple to be the market leader here. Most AI features on devices are gimmicks, and as for what’s not, Apple can just partner with OpenAI or whoever to bring those features to Apple devices. The money in AI will not be on consumer products but on B2B stuff, which Apple is poorly-equipped to do and is much better left to companies like Microsoft.
Apple’s AI pitch should be that Apple devices have the best and most secure processors to run your AI apps, which will be made by third parties. The across-the-board RAM increase is Apple’s most important AI move.
So not doing AI is doing just fine on AI. Huge apple fangirl!
Siri has really suc*ed since it came out. More innovation problems at Apple. Thanks to being run by a an accountant. I like Apple but lately just not good. back to trashcan days. Their chips are great but thats only part of it. Software has to change and innovate to survive. Reminds me of Intel and their downward turn.
Apple is in a good position to profit off AI by making the best devices to run AI applications on. That’s a good angle for them. Not in chasing the best LLM and making gimmicky features no one actually cares about.
If one gets past the blizzard of noise, there are several actual key facts not subject to variation:
1. Apple did actually advertise AI as a big feature to bolster iPhone 16 series sales.
2. They hyped their generosity of upping base memory from 8GB to 16GB because of AI needing it per their adds.
Apple knew and knows SIRI has never lived up to what we were told it could do from day one. For me, it does a great count down for the coffee to be ready to pour in eleven minutes and fifteen seconds. It usually gets the correct time for wherever I ask. SIRI has a hit or miss record for setting up maps to take me where I WANT to go. It has random success finding a person's phone number in my contacts.
I have yet to learn the "specific" wording and sequence required to get SIRI to do many of the claims made over the years. Since the iPhones and iPads have both WiFi and cellular, I just launch Safari and search the web for what I needed.
I expect the Apple C1 family of cellular chips to end up in their laptops at some point like in the iPads now and then we will really have mobile computing, especially if they also access something like Starlink too.
A public announcement and apology for saying misleading statements about the readiness of a product would go a long ways cooling the vitriol filling the airways and webpages.
1. Apple did actually advertise AI as a big feature to bolster iPhone 16 series sales.
2. They hyped their generosity of upping base memory from 8GB to 16GB because of AI needing it per their adds.
Apple knew and knows SIRI has never lived up to what we were told it could do from day one. For me, it does a great count down for the coffee to be ready to pour in eleven minutes and fifteen seconds. It usually gets the correct time for wherever I ask. SIRI has a hit or miss record for setting up maps to take me where I WANT to go. It has random success finding a person's phone number in my contacts.
I have yet to learn the "specific" wording and sequence required to get SIRI to do many of the claims made over the years. Since the iPhones and iPads have both WiFi and cellular, I just launch Safari and search the web for what I needed.
I expect the Apple C1 family of cellular chips to end up in their laptops at some point like in the iPads now and then we will really have mobile computing, especially if they also access something like Starlink too.
A public announcement and apology for saying misleading statements about the readiness of a product would go a long ways cooling the vitriol filling the airways and webpages.
In the future Apple will be celebrated for not playing into AI hype. So many like Gruber are high on silicon valley snake oil. AI is in one of the largest tech bubbles so far. It's wrong-headed and unwise to bet on LLM tech that is just the wrong tool in so many uses. Truly smart people know this. Wise people don't base their products on immature tech regardless of how much PR and marketing has jacked up consumers and techbros who don't really understand the consequences of tech. Any of us who've been in tech for decades know the hype isn't what you follow. It could even be that Apple leadership has read the new book The AI Con — https://thecon.ai/ — and realized there's a deeper pivot to make in terms of how maths are used in automation related product value generation.
