elijahg

Blaurieter said:

There have also been a lot of distractions: Project Titan - the $10 billion vanity project to develop an automated EV. Apple Vision while promising seemed to suck up a lot of R&D. My experience with Siri was not that it just floated for years, it actually went backwards. At one point it had, for sake of a better word, "endearing" elements. For example: "Beam me up Siri" would come back with an almost snarky funny line. Similarly, "Open the Pod Bay Doors" had the semblance of cultural awareness. There were also practical queries like "Siri, what planes are overhead" which would bring up exactly the flight information for the aircraft above you. Now you just get a dump link to FlightAware - not even with a GPS data point. Sir is now just an irritant with HomePods - it is easier to search for music and then hover transfer playing from an iphone without ever using Siri.

No, Siri has been going down hill for a long time - who can say what "vision" Apple has left - just more distractions.

This is exactly my experience too. Cook has stripped out the fun that Steve clearly enjoyed with Siri, he demoed a couple of similar things on-stage and laughed himself. Stuffy Cook clearly doesn't appreciate anything fun, which is why his "improving people's lives", "incredible" and "magical" comments on it always come across as so false and over the top.

Siri used to defer to Wolfram Alpha for a lot of things but that stopped working long ago. I imagine the license ran out. The lack of development in Siri has become more obvious with the likes of Alexa coming after and yet being better, and this is even more glaringly obvious now that there has been such a leap with LLMs. It's clear Apple was totally blindsided by AI, and Cook is flat out lying when he says they've been working on it for years. If they truly have had a decent sized team working on a LLM for "years", where are the results? As there are none, why has Cook allowed it to bumble on for so long with no actual progress whilst wasting $10bn on the car? The buck stops with Cook. He has become really stale and settled. He has changed Apple's structure from a nimble, collaborative place to a sluggish monolithic company. He needs to be replaced with someone younger, more charismatic, someone who understands and is more connected to the products. It is clear from his presentations that the only things he adds to his script are the buzzwords above. 

clexman said:

I don't want the BBC's logo to appear when I use another company's app. It makes perfect sense the way it currently works.

So the Apple logo should always be at the top of the screen when browsing, say, Facebook?

Todays Siri fail: 

“Siri, add salt to my shopping list” … 
“what would you like to add to your shopping list?”
 “salt”
“what would you like to add to your shopping list?”
“salt” 

The only way people will think Apple is taking gaming seriously is if they buy a game studio and start pushing out top-tier games that will run on Mac, AppleTV, iOS and iPadOS. Maybe even on Windows, like Apple did resulting in the mass popularity of iPod and iTunes.

Apple Arcade has a couple of good games, but the majority are old, rehashed freemium games with the freemium bit removed - there's nothing that's a cinematic experience that can show off what Apple Silicon can do. 

Wasn't this "coming soon" to other countries in like, 2019?

Edit: oh, no this isn't the same thing. Apple (credit) Card was coming soon in 2019, and still hasn't made it outside of the US.