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I’m still not on the “Apple is behind” train. AI is truly a half-baked hot mess at this point. If Apple is taking the time to make AI into something actually useful and actually reliable, while creating boundaries to protect user privacy and respect intellectual property, I’ll wait. 

cessnapaul said:

"we love developers" as long as we get a 30% cut.

Just because Karl Benz invented the automobile doesn't mean he gets a cut of every toll road.

He’d definitely take a cut if you wanted to sell your wares out of his dealership. 

Mike Wuerthele said:

morgan3nelson said:

SiTime said:

I miss when tech news wasn’t so political. And that’s not a criticism of the writers and editors of this site. All of this specific political news is also very relevant Apple news. If you are covering Apple news, this is what you need to write about in 2025. 100% understandable.

Is it really *that* relevant to Apple News? No, tis is just another butt hurt journalist using whatever platform they have to express their opinion by using selective quotes and snippets of information. If these 'journalist' were truly interested in the truth we would have seen an awful lot of press about how DEI programs are destroying programming integrity and security of our applications. How it has directly  contributed to the shitload of failures at Apple and other tech companies because they want 'diverse opinions' instead of world class talent. Apple products are now plagued by quality issues at a significantly higher rate than under Steve or the first few years of Tim's reign. And under Steve - Apple was still a very diverse company, it was just the brightest minds regardless of identity and racial politics not because of them.

So, before appleinsider continues alienating a large swath their reader base I would urge them to dial down the rhetoric and abstain from politics (it's not your lane). Get back to focusing on the TECHNOLOGY and the COMPANY that we all love and are passionate about and let the other 'journalist' pander political drivel and divisive reporting.

Because it did nothing of the sort. There are no reliable sources saying that it has. Furthermore, there is nothing "butt hurt" nor any selective quotes in this piece. I get that you may not like us saying that importing companies, not exporting countries, pay tariffs, but that is a stone-cold fact.

Also, I've been at this a long time, with deep hooks inside Apple service going back 37 years. Apple's products are also not "plagued by quality issues" at a significantly higher rate than at any other time. In fact, the last five years, since the butterfly keyboard was put to rest, the rate of issues has been record-low. Don't confuse noise about something a few people are experiencing on social media, with a failure rate.

We do not require you to read everything on the site. If you don't like how us talking about how the biggest democratic economy on the world interfaces with the biggest company in the world, which the name of is literally on our masthead, feel free to click on the other 10-15 stories we publish a day.

Politics involving Apple, are absolutely our lane. It's certainly our lane, more than Fox, OAN, CNN, and MSNBC's because none of them know a damn thing about the company other than what the stock price is today.

Correct. Politics came to Apple (and therefore to AppleInsider). Apple (and therefore to AppleInsider)  didn't go looking for politics. 

The angry "stay in your lane" comment is a weird, but I suppose unsurprising, thing that comes out of fans of this administration. They rally around, vote for and elect a TV celebrity who pushes his politics into every corner of every aspect of everyone's lives. But when any actor, musician, athlete, astronaut or astrophysicist reacts to the politics pushed into their lives and uses their platform to disagree with the elected TV celebrity, they're told to shut up "stay in their lane" by a TV celebrity supporter. It's the same thing going on here. I have no doubt that this website will write a lot less about politics as soon as the current administration stops pushing its politics into everything Apple.

macgui said:

"Frequently-reliable" is far from laudatory or an accolade. It's an observation as would be batshitcrazy for some of the quoted "leakers" of dubious inside information. Referring to someone as frequently-reliable could be an insult to someone who is very reliable. I don't know if Quo ranks above or below .500 nor the stat of any other analyst or leaker. Some have done poorly. Have any done very well?

That said, cameras in AirPods seem unlikely to me. So did AirPods, at one time. There'd be no problem with believing that Apple is working on cameras in AirPods, just for drill. But I can't see any practical value in them.

Unless maybe the infra-red deal is to give Daredevil navigation ability to the sight-impaired. In the sci-fi world, this would have AI describing the environment to the user to guide their steps. A self-contained version of the visual guide Sunny in the bad Sight Unseen TV show. Now that could be too cool.

In a more practical application it might be to provide whistles and clicks to objects surrounding the user's head on a swivel.

Or combine a LASER (!) in each AirPod with an H12 chip to scan the area and feed the info to Apple Vision Pro v7 for a picture superior to Gen 1 NVGs (NODs to the youngsters) !

Though I seriously doubt that's the purpose. If an actual thing, I'd say it would be a proof of concept more than a potential actual product. Like an SPO2 sensor in a Watch. Ok one of those things is not like the other. But it would be so cool.

The specific terms change but they include things like "oft-correct," "more reliable than most," "better than average," "frequently correct," etc. It's the regular inclusion of the compliments and the way that the language used is weirdly similar across multiple 'rumor' sites. I've noticed this for years. It's singular to articles quoting Kuo, and there's something about it that makes it seem... required. If not that, then it seems repeated without thought to whether it's actually justified. That leads to the question of what the batting average actually is, and how Kuo compares statistically to anyone else. Pursue that question, and you'll find that nobody knows what the actual measure is, because no one has established a statistically meaningful way to measure accuracy and compare one analyst to another. So then it's all just based on a sense of the analyst's reputation, which leads me back to the idea that it's requested or required to add the descriptor when citing Kuo, which then generates the hype that this guy's predictions are more valuable than others.

In Kuo's case, there's a pretty clear pattern of predictions made, then repeatedly modified with new predictions that change dates and details of what's expected. Hence my comment above about the prediction eventually changing from IR camera to IR sensor. Are several wrong guesses on a subject before a correct one counted in the average, or just the correct one? What about predictions for a device or feature to come out in a given year, then changed to the next  year, then changed to the year after that, and the thing hasn't materialized? Apple rarely makes product announcements in the negative, so that could go on for a pretty long time, like the folding iPhone has. If they never produce the folding phone (or cameras on AirPods), does a prediction that they will ever get counted as wrong, so long as Apple never actually announces that they're not going make that?

Here we go again with the superlatives for Kuo. Why do articles keep using these laudatory expressions? In this case we have “the frequently-reliable Kuo.” It’s weird. It’s also so common with this one guy that it feels like there’s got to be some sort of contractual obligation to do it when publishing his information.