Maybe there should have spent less time on the Vision Pro and more on AI
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You Won't Get These Apple Intelligence Features Until 2025
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The disaster is that 99% of the headlines, announcements, releases, etc. regarding Apple Intelliigence are more notable for not being available yet.
I went from a 12 pro to a 15 Pro max. I think 3 years is a good upgrade cycle also.
Yes, if the ONLY reason you wanted the 16 was for AI then waiting for the 17 could be reasonable. Depends on what AI features you want and how soon you want them I guess.
I really doubt any delays in AI are remotely related to the vision pro. They have a gazillion dollars and loads of employees and the ability to hire more so I doubt they would have pulled vision pro engineers over to work on AI.
Spot-on. Others characterizing Apple’s AI roll-out as a sky-is-falling disaster cracks me up.
Deep breaths. Life goes on.
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I figure the best bet is to not assume it will be useful to me but at the very same time try some of it out and if it just happens to fit well into how I want to do things then I'll adapt that particular feature.
Indeed. I like the overall Apple ecosystem. I like using my mac because it's so much simpler than Windows (as a user interface and on the inside since I'm a software engineer). So I like my iPhone because it's so similar to the mac and interoperates so well. So if Apple doesn't get one feature or another quite as fast as Android then I'm fine since i know that when they do have it it will play well and cleanly with what I've grown used to. I'm fine rolling with the punches of their release timeline
At this point why release iOS 19 on Sep 2025. Just release iOS 19 on Sep 2026, then iOS 20 in Sep 2027. Beta test a whole year before releasing it, since all features of that major version is going to be available at the end of release cycle anyways.
It kind of is, but not for us customers. It’s more for tech companies and data brokers and so on, anyone BUT customers.
Even if you don't want to use them, it's still taking up valuable storage space in your device!
Or just come out with various releases during the year as features become useable. Maybe give it a major release number if a big change and a minor release if a minor change. I don't think Apple really needs or even should make major releases annual though it doesn't really matter as it's just a number.
Thankfully my phone has tons of storage and most new OS features take up a small percentage of of that even for the biggest features. Now RAM is another matter. But at least the RAM shouldn't get used unless the features is used.
Folks, we need to talk. So many of you are blowing the delays WAY out of proportion. And others of you are down on Apple's purported version of AI. Apple has ALWAYS taken its sweet old time to bring certain technologies forward. From copy/paste on iOS to fingerprints in the buttons, Apple has never rushed anything to market before its time. And this has served Apple very well over the years.
Additionally, your phrasing is making it sound like you're all depressed or something. What's going on, did your favorite team lose their last game? There is no reason for all the pessimism and there is no reason to be moping around like Eeore.
Reasons to be optimistic:
I think we all need to calm down and be patient. Siri, AI, processors, large language models, all of this stuff is the epitome of "things that can wait". All this complaining just makes us sound ungrateful and angry. And maybe even a bit petty, too.
Look on the good side: Apple products are among the best. Apple has knocked multiple home runs with 4 different generations of Apple Silicon.
I get it...it might chap your cheeks to have to wait until January. But let's put this into perspective, right? If the software isn't where you want or need it to be, then just put your purchases on hold and don't buy an iPhone 16 until everything comes out and you can start reading people's reviews of all the things.
Me, I plan to get one soon because I want the new camera hardware that puts the 16 head and shoulders above my 12.
And believe me, I can wait a bit longer for Siri to be improved so that she's more useful to me in my day-to-day life. OMG, to be able to have interactions that are more "conversational"? Damn, I've been looking forward to that since I first saw the original Star Trek, and then The Next Generation, where people regularly talk to their computers and various androids.
I'm ready for this, and good news! It's only a few months off. I'm good with a wait; aren't you?
It's almost the weekend. And Halloween is fast approaching! I hope you all cheer up because after all, these latest tidbits are anything BUT depressing. This is not the end of the world.
Thanks for listening.
Additionally, your phrasing is making it sound like you're all depressed or something. What's going on, did your favorite team lose their last game? There is no reason for all the pessimism and there is no reason to be moping around like Eeore.
Reasons to be optimistic:
- Apple is improving Siri. That's great, and it's long overdue.
- Apple is delaying some software updates until 2025. Big whoop. It's better than releasing them too early while they're still buggy-buggy-crashity-crashy.
I think we all need to calm down and be patient. Siri, AI, processors, large language models, all of this stuff is the epitome of "things that can wait". All this complaining just makes us sound ungrateful and angry. And maybe even a bit petty, too.
Look on the good side: Apple products are among the best. Apple has knocked multiple home runs with 4 different generations of Apple Silicon.
I get it...it might chap your cheeks to have to wait until January. But let's put this into perspective, right? If the software isn't where you want or need it to be, then just put your purchases on hold and don't buy an iPhone 16 until everything comes out and you can start reading people's reviews of all the things.
Me, I plan to get one soon because I want the new camera hardware that puts the 16 head and shoulders above my 12.
And believe me, I can wait a bit longer for Siri to be improved so that she's more useful to me in my day-to-day life. OMG, to be able to have interactions that are more "conversational"? Damn, I've been looking forward to that since I first saw the original Star Trek, and then The Next Generation, where people regularly talk to their computers and various androids.
I'm ready for this, and good news! It's only a few months off. I'm good with a wait; aren't you?
It's almost the weekend. And Halloween is fast approaching! I hope you all cheer up because after all, these latest tidbits are anything BUT depressing. This is not the end of the world.
Thanks for listening.
wow, 2025! I hope they don't push MacOS 16 while they're still doing 15! Imagine the stability of that, daaamn
One thing to bear in mind is that not only does Apple have to get the software right it also has to build the secure cloud data centres to do the Apple based processing on the custom servers.
Staggering the feature releases over a few months and requiring a wait list allows them to scale these up in a controlled manner to meet demand rather than rate limiting the use of Apple Intelligence.
Staggering the feature releases over a few months and requiring a wait list allows them to scale these up in a controlled manner to meet demand rather than rate limiting the use of Apple Intelligence.
Maybe there were delays under Jobs but not this much. It feels Apple Ai isn't ready for primetime both Apple and AMD lost the Ai battle to nVidia and now Apple relies on OpenAI their CEO known for a shady crypto project that collects people's biometric data
If Apple dropping the ball on AI is surprising to you you should remember that Apple hasn’t led the charge on tech frontiers since Tim took over. There is nothing really high tech about Apple these days. They haven’t revolutionised any product or service. The magic has left Apple many years ago.
At the moment Siri can’t even play the national BBC UK radio stations without using shortcuts. The links required can’t seem to be agreed upon which paints an interesting picture of a future where, unless companies cooperate, the user will be the loser.
It's mostly all juvenile crap to me. Pretty laughable that efforts of thousands of engineers is focused on something so frivolous.