You Won't Get These Apple Intelligence Features Until 2025

[MNWildFan]

This is ridiculous. Apple just had to make a big deal about AI. Jobs may have been a picky jerk, but at least he had a vision.

Yup, I know a lot of people would just be like "Oh, stop talking about Steve he's been dead for years now"

But you know what, I have to agree; with Jobs, Apple had a lot more vision compared to what they have now

Talk about having quite the opportunity to unleash all of your AI stuff after all the development of it, only to have it at the point of only a pathetic smidgeon of it being available once it's launched

 

[SactoGuy18]

Despite a lot of people disagreeing with me, the disastrous initial rollout of Google Gemini did concern a lot of people. Apple would rather slowly roll out all the features of Apple Intelligence than roll out everything at once and get into trouble because multiple parts are not working properly.

 

[turbineseaplane]

@MNWildFan Agree fully about Steve there

Beyond his product editing, he understood marketing better than Tim seems to, and would have insisted on a much more coherent "splash" of getting things lined up and ready and rolled out in a way to maximize the hit

The way they are doing this (for whatever the reasons may be) really takes the wind out of the sails and is confusing as heck to anyone not paying super close attention

 

[everlast3434]

Honestly, I don't mind they will take time to release these features - what annoys the heck out of me is that Apple has been advertising this on all their ads since September 2024 - get a 'Verizon Phone with Apple Intelligence' and it is vaporware - nowhere to be found (yes, it is in BETA).

Stop advertising the Apple Intelligence until you actually release it. I see a class action coming soon.

Vaporware. No kidding. I'm still waiting for all that CarPlay stuff they showed a few years ago and never released.

 

[switz]

A curious thought.

How about just using an iPhone as a cell phone and forget the rest of "glitz" stuff like the difference between a Chevy and a Cadillac is now just failure prone glitz. A Chevy usually gets one to a destination.

I would like bullet proof call making and receiving. Not getting that recently on my iPhone 14 Pro Max with latest iOS.

Forget the glitz and get the basics working 100%.

 

[citysnaps]

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

Spot-on assessment.

Apple's ecosystem is something many people take for granted. For the most part it's outstanding knowing I can pick up any device and have access to what I need, from anywhere I happen to be. It's all seamless and works extremely well.

Sure... once in a while there might be a hiccup. But I've yet to see any complex system that provides 100% perfection 100% of the time. Especially a system handling 1 Billion active customers. Anyone expecting that is living in a fantasy world.

 

[Sir_Macs_A_Lot]

"Siri‌ will be able to learn more about you through your communications and actions on your iPhone"

Am I the only one feeling uncomfortable about Siri knowing all my business?

 

[Flight Plan]

"Siri‌ will be able to learn more about you through your communications and actions on your iPhone"

Am I the only one feeling uncomfortable about Siri knowing all my business?

Well I've got news for you. You've been leaving a trail of breadcrumbs for the last few years at least. And Siri probably had little or nothing to do with that.

 

[kp98077]

just use Gemini AI is better...

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Under Jobs this was never an issue

Push notifications, announced in June 2008 for September 2008 release, never mentioned again until June 2009 when it actually released.
or the white iPhone 4, originally supposed to release in July 2010, actually shipped in April 2011.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

I'm pretty sure they had some new features roll out after the initial release of a major version back then

One of the biggest advertised features of the 1999/2000 iMac was the fact that it could play DVDs.
They literally had a version called the "iMac DV" just in case you didn't get the memmo that the iMac was also a DVD player.

so imagine people’s surprise when they installed the very first version of Mac OS X Chita, which did not have any way to play back DVDs built in. On the fresh new fancy operating system for your iMac DV, where the headline feature is that it has a built-in DVD player, there was no DVD player app.

that wouldn't come until OS X Puma later in 2001.
Jobs's Apple, the more has changed the more has stayed the same.

 

[aussie-reader]

Under Jobs this was never an issue

er, do you remember MobileMe? Perhaps best to avoid those problems again, go slow and get it right,