MassiveAttack

After reading John Gruber´s articles "something is rotten at Apple" and John Siracusa´s article "Apple Turnover", I have to say that something is really rotten at Apple. 

Apple is behind in AI (LLM, Siri, their GPU capacity, human resources for AI etc.). 
Apple is behind in their HW. Apple is launching foldables.... when?? 

Apple has been rotten with their timid updates for iPhones. Camera gets better and better, but not much. 

iPhone 17´s design is rotten.

I mean.... What isn´t rotten?

I do not expect too much from io or OpenAI, but I hope they prove me wrong. 

At the end, it is due that we really need "cool" devices nobody is thinkg about yet. 

Rotten Apple. 

Battery Management: iOS 19 will introduce an AI-powered battery management mode that profiles user routines and throttles background tasks.

Wi-Fi Captive Portal: iOS 19 will save captive-portal credentials to iCloud Keychain and sync them across devices.

Default Voice Assistant: EU regulations will force Apple to allow users to choose a default digital assistant other than Siri.

System-Wide Assistant Feature: Users can set a preferred AI assistant (Gemini, ChatGPT, etc.) and potentially invoke it with trigger words.

I am 100% sure that Apple tries to let Siri die alone and quietly by letting users choose their preferred AI assistant. If this feature is rolled out, you will never ever hear about Siri or Siri Chat/voice assistant. 

Something is and remains rotten forever.

anthogag said:

Apple should move production of its most sophisticated and advanced components to North America and assemble and produce other components in India, China, Europe, UK, Vietnam,...  

You have never worked in manufacturings or supply chain, haven't you? 

You rather sound like a compromised Trump. 

I am asking myself what this whole pride symbol has to do with developers. 
It rather looks like a political statement since Trump has pushed all companies to remove the diversity program.

After Siri is massively failed, I expect an underwhelming event, which is not held live anyway (for years already). 

michelb76 said:

MassiveAttack said:

shrave10 said:

MassiveAttack said:

Well... Apple would like to fire him, but if Apple did, then excellent researchers would follow John and leave Apple.
This domino effect is what makes Apple concern.

Anyone who followed John's philosophy should be fired also.  They had 6 years to get Siri to compete and failed miserably.   A new direction is needed for the gen AI era.

I think we should fire Federeghi also. 
John asked for more AI resources, but Federeghi was not convinced by AI (until he used ChatGPT). 
Luca Maestri did not accept to spend more money on GPUs. 

So.. Overall.... Not only John, but also Federeghi must be fired. Luca is gone. 

Ah yes, The American Way™. Fire people so we can hire new people to make new mistakes. God forbid an organisation builds collective experience. I'm willing to bet Federighi will not let himself be surprised that easily again.

Why not? They could fire Scott Forstall.
So why can´t Apple fire some less competent executives?