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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
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobraelijahg

  • Apple Watch loses steam as global smartwatch shipments dropped in 2024

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    danox said:
    jblongz said:
    Apple watch is a material beauty, but having to charge it daily (unless you own the Ultra) spoils the experience. Maybe this realization has risen over the hype.  I get almost a full week on my Fitbit (Sense v2), and it tracks my sleep quality in addition to the common sensors, notifications, and call features.  It may not be as flashy, but it sure has more stamina.  For me, the silent alarm clock with smart awake is beneficial. I like rejecting a call without having to approach the phone.  I Google's acquisition of Fitbit would get people's attention away from Apple, but Google smothered the Fitbit catalog with their own Pixel models, ignoring some key marketing points of Charge and Sense models. 

    Google can’t do hardware most of their history has been one of cancellation and me-too tech products.
    https://store.google.com/?hl=en-US Lots of things that Apple doesn't produce in there.
    watto_cobra

  • Justice Department demands Google sell off Chrome in new filing

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    ihatescreennames said:
    badmonk said:

    You could make the argument that all should be broken up but I suspect AI will change the story on search sooner than we expect.
    My wife has a sub to ChatGPT and uses it all the time, several times a day. Just 30 minutes ago we were coming back from the market and a question arose about the dates and times of an upcoming play at our local high school. She did a quick google search and got no results that matched what she was looking for but DID get ads and sponsored links and other cruft.

    Then she opened the ChatGPT app and asked it for the dates of the play and mentioned the name of the school. I was expecting it wouldn’t work since the info she is looking for is so recent and about a small event at a relatively small town. It came back with 3 days and the times it was showing. No ads, no sponsored links, just the answer she needed. 
    What was the search? I'll try it with Google and with Gemini just as a comparative test.  
    watto_cobra

  • 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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  • Justice Department demands Google sell off Chrome in new filing

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    ihatescreennames said:
    AppleInsider said:

    The case brought by the DOJ is in spite of efforts by tech companies to curry favor with the new administration. Google, like Apple and other tech giants, contributed to President Trump's inauguration in January. This has resulted in an inquiry in the US Senate over the donations.

    I thought I read here and at other places that Apple did not contribute to Trump’s inauguration. Has that changed?
    Tim Cook did, on behalf of Apple. It gave them deniability. ;)
    watto_cobra