davidlewis54

As a slight aside, I use my Apple TV box for as much as possible.  It sets up streaming very quickly and simply and is much easier than the dedicated setup on individual boxes. And the picture is usually better quality and is more stable.

Thanks for a very good take on AI as it is, at present.  The initial view that AI is, in fact, not intelligent is what I have been saying, in these comment pages, since it became the thing of the day.  It is just the next level of what has gone before.  It is, of course, just a next-big-thing marketing strategy.

Apple realised the same hence Apple Intelligence, rather than Artificial Intelligence.

If AI can do things I can’t, don’t want to or will irritate me because it’s not user friendly to me then that’s fine.

Absolutely, it should not steal human’s ideas and product and turn it into something else, particularly if it’s negative to a person, either as lost income from something they have produced or for salacious or offensive purposes.

I imagine Apple will do what it normally does which is develop an idea and turn it into something useful.  This so often has given people the feeling Apple is behind until it produces an absolute game-changer.

This has happened many times over the years and I am sure it will continue to do so.

There’s going to have to be a major improvement in how all the iDevices interact with each other if this is going to work.  I have an iPhone, two iPads, Apple Watch, Apple TV, original HomePod and a Mini, plus AirPod Max and AirPod Pro 2, plus a new car with AirPlay.  Yes, lucky me.  However, they do not interact well with both HomePods playing different music, though they are in different rooms with rooms in between and even if I speak softly inches away from one HomePod.  My iPhone won’t Airplay to my HomePods without dropping the connection after a couple of minutes, neither HomePod will play as a radio, and using more than one app in the car causes the connection to collapse.  I can have Apple Maps and most of the time Apple Music playing but add a phone call and it all drops out.

My view is Apple needs to sort out how it wants its devices to operate and interact with one another (it should be faultless, particularly in an home with all the devices on the same WiFi network) and sort out the basics.  There is too much updating all the time.  Quite often nothing works with anything else.  I appreciate as I use public betas they are not infallible but it is all too frequent that the basics just don’t work.

It’s interesting that the plethora of Amazon adverts are not shown to be such.  Lots of media sites do it, and I find it very odd. Amazon is a poor operator, taking advantage of and treating very badly, its suppliers, warehouse staff, delivery drivers and countries where it pays little or no tax.  It also treats its customers poorly: if you review an item and then don’t buy but go back later, the price will have increased.  Amazon is often not the cheapest and, also, I have found many examples where its power is so great, even major companies won’t supply distributors or other shops in preference to Amazon. All in all a pretty poor show.