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  • Siri may only get minor Apple Intelligence improvements before iOS 19

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    AppleZulu said:
    Honestly, it’s remarkable how long Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field remains in effect after his own death. 

    The perception that he introduced new, fully-formed, instantly successful category killer products on an annual basis continues unabated. This is, of course, the driving force behind the perpetual lamentations about incrementalism at Apple. 

    Turn off the RDF, and you’d realize everything at Apple has started at a slow burn and moved along at an incremental pace thereafter. Even the iPhone took years to become an instant success. 

    The gloomy predictions in this article seem largely based on some features not showing up yet in the current iOS beta. I personally wouldn’t recommend selling your stock based on that. Either way, this stuff takes time to get right, and then when it does, everyone forgets about the half-baked competition that was supposed to be ahead of the curve. 

    Siri is currently better than the peanut gallery claims, and in my experience, the occasional regressions where Siri stumbles on something that used to work usually turn out to be the result of back-end updates that come before a boost in Siri power or features. 

    Lost in the grousing about iPhone 16e and MagSafe is the fact that the included hardware didn’t skimp on its ability to handle ‘Apple Intelligence.’ That’s because that’s what’s coming in the immediate pipeline, and they’re not going to sell a new iPhone that can’t handle it. Apple’s decisions about the 16e likely would’ve been different if the delays predicted in this article are accurate. 

    I think that it's fair to say that people have a right to be frustrated here. You've got to remember that Siri first shipped in 2011, Apple had first mover advantage and it failed to deliver on the original promisses. In 2014 it was eclipsed on day one by Amazon's Alexa and was further pushed into also-ran status when Google Assistant launched in 2016. 

    Yes, for super basic queries, Siri does just fine. But, after nearly 14 years of being on the market, you'd think that they'd have caught up by now. 

    Think of Apple Maps. When it launched, it was rightly called out for being a mess and for being an inferior replacement for Google Maps. It took a few generations, but I've not heard the average person bitch about Apple Maps for years now.

    Consider where iOS is today and what it can do now against iOS version 5. Yes, Siri has moved on a bit from iOS 5 too, of course it has. But it's still absurdly basic and poorly received by the masses in comparison to the competition.


    williamlondonking editor the grateRogue01tiredskillsbulk001

  • Siri may only get minor Apple Intelligence improvements before iOS 19

    saareksaarek
    When it comes to Siri Apple always seems to over promise and under deliver.

    Just today I had an example how of useless Siri is. I asked the question “when will sunset occur on the 25th of April?”. Siri told me that it was sorry, but it could not give me weather information that far in advance. 

    My daughters Echo Dot, via Alexa, easily answered the question. Bear in mind that the second generation echo dot, which is what my daughter has, came out in 2016 and cost me £29. The fact that my wife’s iPhone 16 cannot answer this simple question is just absurd at this point.

    How senior leadership members at Apple have not lost their jobs over this just blows my mind.
    williamlondonking editor the gratebulk001

  • New iPhone 16e offers Apple Intelligence at a low price point

    saareksaarek
    I feel for those poor iPhone 15 users. They got bent over and shafted with the deliberately nerfed RAM in their iPhones so that it wouldn’t be a competitor to this iPhone 16e.
    danoxwilliamlondon

  • Apple makes first change to Pixelmator Pro with a new splash screen

    saareksaarek
    I’ve been using Pixelmator since it first came out in 2007, I was one of their original beta testers.

    At this point I don’t know whether to drink to a soon to be long lost friend or celebrate a positive new chapter.

    Pixelmator always had frequent updates, used the latest Apple tech and was continually pushed forwards.

    I truly hope they don’t do a Dark Sky on it.
    watto_cobrawilliamlondon

  • Apple Intelligence & Siri team getting a boost from fixer Kim Vorrath

    saareksaarek
    foregoneconclusion said:
    tht said:
    Gruber’s monthly sniping at Siri is not really helping imo. Most of the time, it has something to do with how Gruber enunciates, grammar, or perhaps how he has his devices setup. 
    Yeah, I'm not sure why he doesn't realize that the quality of the answer is typically based on the way that the question is asked. Asking Siri about Super Bowl winners by year seems to work fine.
    Respectfully, I think you’re missing the point. Siri should be able to understand the question and answer it.

    For a personal assistant app, If a user has to use a specific syntax, well, then the product has already failed.

    Billions of people own products that ship with Siri. Apple advertise Siri as a service someone can just speak to, it should operate accordingly.
    neoncatwilliamlondon