Yea iPadOS26 is the main take away this year. Finally fixing multitasking and file management. I Apple has the wrong strategy by focussing on buzz trends like AI and focussing on size and performance. There is so much more innovation possible with real benefit for customers. Like eg bringing smart mail folders to iphone/ipad or syncing mail account settings across devices.
It’s time for Tim Cook to be fired. Steve Jobs would be and is rolling over in his grave. Nothing groundbreaking or innovative has happened under Cook’s watch. I’ve been an active apple fan since 2000. Apple intelligence last year (and Siri) was nothing but false promises and vaporware starting with WWDC 2024. Apple AI this year is still woefully behind any of its competitors. Apple’s tech is behind Android features that have been out for years on other phones (and yes I know those phones are less secure and have bloatware - but that doesn’t invalidate the point) and yet Apple is selling these as new and revolutionary software updates. Tim is too cautious and these promises of a new OS every year, except some features being available later in the year (just wait customer) in an iOS update is nothing but lies and poor product development year after year. It’s not necessary. Gone are the days when Apple was innovative and the OS actually had every feature when it was released the first time, without promises for later. Same with the hardware. Incrementalism is not only boring, it’s costing Apple its edge. What is apple working on?
"If Steve Jobs were alive today" are arguments are, by their very nature, specious and ridiculous. For one thing, they're based entirely on conjecture, as no one knows exactly how someone who has been dead for close to seven years would react to a unique situation arising today, much less the adherence to Moore's Law in iPhone processors that Intel has failed to deliver for the Mac. It's an argument that's impossible to prove and equally impossible to refute.
For another, these arguments implicitly invoke a fictitious, idealized version of Steve Jobs who always did everything right and never made mistakes or became embroiled in crises at Apple — one bearing virtually no resemblance to the actual Steve Jobs.
Ok. Delete the sentence about Steve Jobs and look at the rest of the comment. Where is the lie about Siri, about AI, about Apple being behind and promoting vaporware and not having anything complete issued at roll out time?
Your comments read like a Samsung fan in a forum circa 2014. They're tired, old arguments that never prove true. Siri still works in its core competencies and sucks greatly at things outside of those, and Apple promised an update that didn't arrive. That's annoying, but it's one feature out of a dozen that shipped in 2024/2025. There was never vaporware, just hallucinating AI that had a higher-than-desired miss rate.
Google and OpenAI might be okay with 30% or greater fail rates, but not Apple. Apple's focus on incremental updates and products that actually enhance a user's life are what sets it apart. Cook's reluctance and ability to step back and rethink shows why he's an excellent CEO in a world where Humane and the Cybertruck exist.
I'd also love to know where Android is ahead, specifically. To my eye that OS has languished over the past six years or so in favor of announcing party tricks that never ship. Or is Google's graveyard of PR ploys a figment of my imagination?
And what was Apple doing in leaps and bounds before that it isn't doing now? Other than releasing a new product line twice a decade, where exactly has Apple ever moved fast, broke things, and came out ahead of the competition other than privacy and security? Apple is good because it is cautious. I don't understand people's drive to change that.
Could we say that Apple is also OK with the 30% fail rates of OpenAI, considering how they integrate ChatGPT with iOS 26? If it's so bad as you think, why Apple is integrating with it?
Should Apple be concerned when Google tells you to put glue on pizza or when Amazon sells you a scam product? ChatGPT isn't an Apple product, it is a service heavily labeled as such that exists outside of Apple Intelligence. It is also siloed in a way that should keep hallucinations to a reasonable level. The chatbot isn't available when using ChatGPT via Siri; the session ends the second you close the active dialogue.
Though that doesn't mean the implementation is fool proof. Visual Intelligence via ChatGPT called Mario Kart World a fan-made game and didn't know what the Switch 2 was in the photo.
Apple made an agreement to make Google Search the default engine in all Apple devices and also said Google Search was the best search engine.
I think they should be concerned when a service like Google Search, that they integrated in their devices, do not perform well. Apple also made partnership with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT in their devices becasue they think is the best AI service for their devices, even with the 30% failure rate you mentioned. Are you saying that integrating ChatGPT was a mistake?
We all learn to discern between things at a young age. OpenAI is not Apple. Google is not Apple. Their mistakes are not Apple's problem.
I didn't say that OpenAI and Google are Apple. I just pointed out they made an agreement with both companies. So I discern correctly, right?
If Google search was the least popular engine that never worked or ChatGPT was something no one ever heard of, your arguments would make sense. But their popularity is in spite of their mediocrity. Apple doesn't have to cut down to their level in order to ship a product.
No, Apple wasn't wrong to integrate with ChatGPT or Google. It provides users options and alternatives, and they can be turned off. That's the difference. If Apple released something this broken that was meant to persist across nearly every app and system on iOS and turning it off rendered buying the latest iPhone moot, then that's on Apple.
ChatGPT and Google can do what they like. Apple has a higher standard for failure rates and hallucinations. Apple says Google is the best search engine, they also said ChatGPT is the best chatbot. That endorsement doesn't mean they're going to copy their tactics and release half-baked products.
You stated that Google and OpenAI might be okay with a 30% or greater failure rates, but not Apple. However, it appears that Apple is indeed comfortable with a 30% failure rate as they have agreed make the services of both companies the default on all Apple devices and integrated them into the operating system. So, rather than releasing a flawed AI service themselves, Apple opted to utilize what you call a mediocre third-party service for their devices. At least that's what I get from your comment, right? If that is the case, it might be preferable that customer download Google and OpenAI apps rather than Apple integrating subpar services, wouldn't you agree?
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You stated that Google and OpenAI might be okay with a 30% or greater failure rates, but not Apple. However, it appears that Apple is indeed comfortable with a 30% failure rate as they have agreed make the services of both companies the default on all Apple devices and integrated them into the operating system. So, rather than releasing a flawed AI service themselves, Apple opted to utilize what you call a mediocre third-party service for their devices. At least that's what I get from your comment, right? If that is the case, it might be preferable that customer download Google and OpenAI apps rather than Apple integrating subpar services, wouldn't you agree?