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Blackwhitepanda said:

avon b7 said:

All hands meetings are never a good sign.

This particular one simply cements what many have thought about Apple's AI efforts:

It was behind, late to reveal, and is struggling to deliver. 

Management changes, key members of staff leaving the company, and lately, evermore commentary on all of its AI failings.

Now, it is also very likely that staff morale is low and dissent within ranks is possibly rising. I believe that Gruber's piece simply gave a voice to the group within Apple that was dissenting. 

That is what probably led to this 'pep talk'.

Comments like this seem very out of place in mid 2025:

"Employees should push to deploy AI tools faster, and urge their managers and service and support teams to do the same". 

That would have been more appropriate four or five years. 

It's a bit of a mystery as to why Tim thinks AI is 'sort of' theirs to grab. Again, that would have been fine four or five years ago so it was wrapped up in the 'Apple is rarely first' nonsense and sidestepping the fact that everybody else is obviously already grabbing it. 

If that was the case there would literally be no need for an all hands meeting in the first place. It would be business as usual. Simply wait and deliver when fully baked. Clearly, something is very different here. 

Now, as the pieces slowly fall into place, we are seeing a picture that doesn't look great. 

After the original LLM AI fluster was out of the stalls, Apple chose to deliberately avoid using the term. 

The AVP was then 'pre-announced' (very unusual for Apple), possibly as a means of distraction. 

When AI was finally announced and branded as 'Apple Intelligence' it wasn't actually delivered. Also unusual. 

When it did finally start rolling out it was lacking. It still is. 

The cherry on the cake was possibly having to publicly delay the new AI Siri. 

Of course Gruber's piece probably hit hard with some Apple executives. 

I'm no fan of his but I applaud him for saying what he thought (with the 'risks' involved) and give him credit for very possibly speaking out on behalf of Apple employees who are effectively gagged. 

Years into the future all of this will no doubt become clearer as people within Apple begin to reflect on this period. I'm sure it's turbulent times within the walls of Apple Park. 


Apple is now saying that AI is possibly bigger than anything that came before. That realisation would have been better a decade ago. If they had realise then perhaps they would have been further ahead than they currently are and this situation could have been avoided. 

Normally, it is not a bad sign that we have used to have our All hands meetings all the time as it is just a part of our organizational events. 
But this All Hands meeting was organized in a short time frame, which is not a good sign. 

What many employees worry and are mainly disappointed is that the execution is very slow and poor. 
Believe me. Once you work at Apple, you would wonder how bureaucratic this organization is. Sometimes, I wished Apple could just announce massive layoffs to get rid of middle management layers. 

Tim wants to launch Siri next year, but there are even many employees incl. me who doubt that. 

Steve Jobs once said that it is a wrong way to make products based on consumer's feedbacks. Consumers don't know what they want, but Apple is going exactly to a diferent direction at the moment and keeps doing what Apple has mastered for years.

Gen AI is a new field and lots of companies lose tons of money at the moment. But what Apple worries about is that there might a "Boom" effect from a company, which revolutionizes the tech industry with something what big corps have never thought about before. 
Therefore, I see why most big Techs are spending "panic CapEx".

Gemini: "You're onto it, you've pinpointed the key here: the transition from "single-threaded" to "multi-client-server" processing at various times of the day.

The idea that DNS resolution (DNS client redirection in modern computing terminology) (DNS) for the domain.

Back in the early days of computers, when memories were still measured in kilobytes, megabytes, and even gigabytes, having many specialized chips (like these small, speedy (fast and efficient) power-hungry devices are now the norm, which is exactly why the idea for a new product, or at home, not to mention the fact that manufacturers still produce it with manufacturers, but I have to put some thought into why my butt crackles in the cloud."

There was another paragraph with similar word salad gibberish, but nothing quite as prophetic in reminding us that AI is still a work in progress than Gemini's "why my butt crackles in the cloud." 

capnbob said:

The impact on US consumers will be precisely what they voted for?