DAalseth

Yes he has done great things at Apple. But that’s in the past. the last few years are filled with Apple Intelligence, Apple Car, Declining quality, and missed deadlines. Even Michael Jordan knew when it was time to hang it up. If Cook stays in the top seat he risks being the Willy Mayes falling down in the outfield. 

Cook was the perfect person to replace Jobs, but that was a long time ago. 

Two thoughts:
First, I have four novels, hundreds of short stories, plus paintings, drawings, and a full 50 episode podcast series. They are all setting on my system and not on the web. Starting over a year ago I started pulling anything and everything that I cared about off the web simply because I will not let the thieves steal and profit from my work. It is going to stay there until some kind of protections for copyright are in place. 

Second, I don’t understand what you are trying to say with the Gulf of Mexico image. It IS the Gulf of Mexico regardless of what the moron in chief says. 

canukstorm said:

KalMadda said:

gatorguy said:

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."

Mark Gurman reported info about them from his sources, first saying they would be ready by 18.4, then saying they had been delayed to 18.5 due to issues that arose with the features.  So there is no reason to believe they don’t exist at all.  Creating AI features like this with privacy and security is a difficult task, and likely they discovered an issue with it recently after the features were most of the way completed that will require some reworking to fix.  That’s the way complex software like this ends up working out sometimes.  There is absolutely zero reason to believe the features don’t exist.

Furthermore, Apple basically never demonstrates unreleased software features before they’re in beta to journalists or any outside sources, so expecting that is incredibly unreasonable.  Just because Apple hasn’t shown these features to journalists doesn’t mean they don’t exist.  That’s a preposterous leap that doesn’t even make any semblance of logical sense…

"Mark Gurman reported info about them from his sources, first saying they would be ready by 18.4, then saying they had been delayed to 18.5" =>  In his latest report, Gurman mentions that one of his sources said Apple may likely have to start everything from scratch because features are not working.

Makes sense to me. Siri was designed as a simple assistant. You ask a direct, clear, question, and it will respond. What time is it? When does X team play? Set a timer for XX Minutes. Simple things. Over the years it has gotten better, it takes dictation better, it responds to a wider range of questions better, but it at root is still that simple tool. It’s been clear with how badly it works with HomePod or with the Music app that it is very limited by the structure of what it was designed to be. So now they thought they could drop a whole LLM onto it and it would magically be a quantum level better. No that’s like putting a V8 in a SmartCar. Like building a ten story building on a foundation for a rambler. It won’t work. the system has to be built from the ground up with an architecture designed to do what they want. I was saying six months ago they needed to make a whole new AI assistant, with a different name, completely seperate from Siri. 

muthuk_vanalingam said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

jdw said:

Wow.  Just wow.

When otherwise staunchly left-leaning Tim Cook isn't quite left enough for the left, they pounce. 

Great job, folks.  Great job.

This has nothing to do with politics and it's an insane leap to try and make it so. Stop.

Agreed. And I usually enjoy reading @jdw's posts. Definitely, not this one. Not after, it was deleted for violating the forum rules.

My personal take on the topic at hand - Ok, Apple lied about an important feature - so what? Everything is fair in love, war and marketing. Apple's marketing is usually not as deceptive as competition and they are still far better than competition even after this situation. Of course. competition is not the gold standard for Apple to follow, rather Apple has to set the high bar for others to follow. But occasional missteps happen and that is inevitable. Is this misstep large enough for CEO to step down - I don't think so, considering the track record of the CEO in question for the last 10+ years.

So what? It’s called fraud and people have been prosecuted for it. At the very least I expect a massive lawsuit over this which I expect Apple will lose costing them millions. The damage to their reputation will be even worse. 

He’s not wrong. This has been a fiasco.

And most important, who made the call which side to listen to? Presumably, that person was Tim Cook."

Tim Cook was the steady hand that kept Apple going when Steve Jobs left. He did good work, but that is in the past. What have we had in recent years? The CarPlay fumble. The AppleCar fiasco. The Siri fiasco which is a part of Apple Intelligence being mostly a half baked “us too’ project and not something well thought out. AppleVision becoming this decades Lisa. Software shipped with obvious bugs. On and on and on.