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  • Apple is lying about Apple Intelligence, John Gruber says -- and he's right

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    jagrahax said:
    I have to say that one statement in this article is incorrect. “Apple released an ad promoting Genmoji, but using images that could not possibly be generated by that feature.”  I looked back at that article and tried to create those Genmoji images myself.  I created three of them with very little difficulty, and then stopped. 

    Admittedly, I am using the latest beta version of iOS, but this contradiction leaves me wondering if Gruber, et. al. are being a little shrill. 
    That statement about Genmoji didn't come from Gruber AFAIK. It was from the AppleInsider editor. I'm fine with Gruber calling Apple out for a high-profile and widely marketed tent pole feature they've never been able to demo, and still can't present any evidence of it existing in any usable form. Everyone believed it was true just because Apple said it. 
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  • Apple is lying about Apple Intelligence, John Gruber says -- and he's right

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    KalMadda said:
    I think people are being way too hard on Apple over this.  For all we know, it sounds like they actually did have these features most of the way completed, but ran into issues later in the process, and so now have to spend time repairing and reworking elements.  And the ads they ran were very clear that those features weren’t available yet.  Sometimes things come up and happen, I’d rather they spend the time to fix whatever issues they ran into with it then them rushing it out for release…
    "If these features exist in any sort of working state at all, no one outside Apple has vouched for their existence, let alone for their quality....
     Why did Apple show these personalized Siri features at WWDC last year, and promise their arrival during the first year of Apple Intelligence? Why, for that matter, do they now claim to “anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” if they still currently do not exist in demonstratable form? And now they look so out of their depth, so in over their heads, that not only are they years behind the state-of-the-art in AI, but they don’t even know what they can ship or when.

    Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."
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  • Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected

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    Somewhat shocking opinion piece by John Gruber. In general he's always been pretty upbeat about Apple, but not today.

    "What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. The Apple that commissioned the futuristic “Knowledge Navigator” concept video in 1987 was the Apple that was on a course to near-bankruptcy a decade later...
    Last week’s announcement — “It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” — was, if you think about it, another opportunity to demonstrate the current state of these features. Rather than simply issue a statement to the media, they could have invited select members of the press to Apple Park, or Apple’s offices in New York, or even just remotely over a WebEx conference call, and demonstrate the current state of these features live, on an actual device. That didn’t happen. If these features exist in any sort of working state at all, no one outside Apple has vouched for their existence, let alone for their quality....

    Why did Apple show these personalized Siri features at WWDC last year, and promise their arrival during the first year of Apple Intelligence? Why, for that matter, do they now claim to “anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” if they still currently do not exist in demonstratable form?

    And now they look so out of their depth, so in over their heads, that not only are they years behind the state-of-the-art in AI, but they don’t even know what they can ship or when. Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."


    https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino
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  • Apple Intelligence vision via AirPods camera is in active development

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    I suppose as long as no one puts their hair down or otherwise obstructs their ears with a hoodie, tall collar, or similar, there can be uses. Those things wouldn't matter with listening to Airpods, but certainly might affect cameras. Better would be creating smart glasses. 
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  • Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected

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    loopless said:
    You guys don’t reflect what most people use Siri for.  Apple intelligence is not Siri. All the other tools like summaries and email categories are actually super useful. Apple has to build out massive AI compute farms and integrate Siri into iOS and apps, that takes time. And Apple likes to get things right.
    ...which may require scrapping Siri altogether. 

    EDIT: There are reports coming out this morning that Apple has wasted more than a year trying to integrate Apple Intelligence with Siri before determining it just wasn't going to work. If accurate, that would help explain the "new" Siri moving to 2026. 
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