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But if you have disabled Apple Intelligence it will turn it back on and you will have to disable it again. 

Honestly I’m looking forward to this. So many of the icons in the dock, on the Mac or on iOS devices are just blue squares with a thing in the middle. AppStore, Weather, Keynote, Designer, Support, and more. The same is true with other colours. It will be nice to get a bit more variety, make them more distinctive. A little bit of skeuomorphism is not a bad thing.

You make a good point that AI can do good things in photography, driver assist in cars, scientific research, and such. Analytical AI is a useful tool that is doing a lot of good.

Generative AI, which is what ChatGPT, Copilot, Apple Intelligence, and the others are, is garbage. I have made a point of disabling it on my systems. Due to an unfortunate accident I will be replacing my (AI Free) iPhone11 this weekend with a 16Pro. The VERY FIRST thing I will do on setup is to disable Apple Intelligence. With every OS update after that the very first thing I will do is make sure it is still off. I have no time or space to waste with garbage. There is nothing in Apple Intelligence now, or that is predicted over the next several years that I will waste my time with.

And I’m confident that by the time I’m updating my 16 I am sure that most people will be of like mind. 

Apple could literally hand management of the AppStore over to Epic, let them do anything they wanted, and epic would still whine. 

Rogue01 said:

People already use their iPads or iPhones for home automation, assuming they actually use HomeKit devices.  Most don't. 

That’s the big part of this most don’t want to admit. I realized it was the case when my local Rona and Home Depot, were reducing the number of connected lights, locks, bulbs, and such, and filling the space with old style ‘dumb’ devices. They aren’t selling. The fancy Home Automation Connected devices are selling to a small tech crowd, but most people don’t want the hassle. Most people just want things to work and have no problem using a programmable thermostat like they did 30 years ago, or walking over to the light switch, or using a key to open the door. Most of the devices seem like solutions looking for a problem and not finding one.