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  • Apple will try to right the Apple Intelligence Siri ship, but don't expect firings

    elijahgelijahg
    This is starting to look like Copland part deux from the late 90s. Steve Jobs and NextStep saved Apple then. Who will ride to the rescue this time?
    What exactly needs outside Support to rescue this? This is a software company saying, we're sorry but we need a bit more time.
    They've had 12 years since Siri's debut, but clearly they have done nothing at all to improve Siri in that time. So now trying to reverse that neglect and cram sky-high improvements into < 1 year has turned out to be impossible. Robby Walker is clearly responsible for this lack of improvement - he came over from the Cue acquisition back in 2013 - and seems to have sat on his hands ever since. He needs to be moved on.

     The only reason bad Siri has been fairly accepted by the world is because barely anyone uses it - Maps was a huge disaster as it's such a well-used app. But Apple got on that and totally fixed it within a couple of years. Siri has been a joke for an embarrassingly long time. And it is a joke - people defending it here saying they don't have a problem because they only ask it a couple of different, limited and specific queries are totally missing the point about a "personal assistant".
    Wesley_Hilliard

  • Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 18 years ago

    elijahgelijahg
    Clarus said:
    citpeks said:
    Apple is secure now, but it's not the same hungry, risk taking company it was.
    I strongly disagree with this. Apple has done several things in the past few years that are in the same category of “the industry thinks that’s a dumb risky overpriced idea, the next Apple failure” that turn out to be the opposite.

    Apple Watch
    AirPods
    Apple Silicon Macs
    None of those things were really risks. If they failed, the R&D write off would be barely a blip on their profits. If the iPhone failed, it would have been a disaster considering the vast R&D spend on it and Apple's relatively small size then. 
    chasmwatto_cobra