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gatorguy said:

KalMadda said:

I think people are being way too hard on Apple over this.  For all we know, it sounds like they actually did have these features most of the way completed, but ran into issues later in the process, and so now have to spend time repairing and reworking elements.  And the ads they ran were very clear that those features weren’t available yet.  Sometimes things come up and happen, I’d rather they spend the time to fix whatever issues they ran into with it then them rushing it out for release…

"If these features exist in any sort of working state at all, no one outside Apple has vouched for their existence, let alone for their quality....
 Why did Apple show these personalized Siri features at WWDC last year, and promise their arrival during the first year of Apple Intelligence? Why, for that matter, do they now claim to “anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” if they still currently do not exist in demonstratable form? And now they look so out of their depth, so in over their heads, that not only are they years behind the state-of-the-art in AI, but they don’t even know what they can ship or when.

Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."

Oh my god, hell has surely frozen over when I find myself agreeing with gatorguy.

avon b7 said:

9secondkox2 said:

It’s not chickening out. 

It’s doing the right thing. 

For once. 

In this case, the EU doing nothing is doing the right thing. 

The whole DMA fiasco needs to be reversed ASAP. 

This isn't about the EU or the DMA. 

Sure it is, the UK is just copycatting the EU on these issues.

But, it's hard not to see corrupt intent here from the UK "regulators" when they blithely accept, against all objective evidence, the word of Meta, et al. that they are being prevented from doing good for consumers by "not being allowed to innovate" with browser technology. First of all, consumers don't need (or probably want, if they were to actually think about it) innovation in rendering engines (HTML/CSS/DOM/Javascript). "Innovation" in rendering engines serves only one purpose and that purpose is anticompetitive — user and developer lock-in to a specific rendering engine. And, no, that is not what Apple is doing with WebKit, they follow standards and don't add "features" that make websites incompatible with other browsers. Secondly, the facile representation by these companies that they are in any way interested in improving the user experience is laughable; they are interested in improving their own experience in monetizing users, period. So, how do we explain this attack on user privacy, in both the EU and the UK, that is cloaked in terms like "competition" and "fairness" but seems to have no purpose other than to destroy privacy and pervert the concept of fairness?

The regulators in the UK, like those in the EU, are either so ignorant of these issues that they have no business regulating anything or they are so corrupt that they view their job as selling "regulation" to the highest bidder. Personally, I think it's a combination of both. But, the UK in particular have a track record of being anti-privacy in all regards, and the EU has a track record of hobbling US companies to benefit EU companies. It's not surprising that they are engaged in these blatant attempts to undermine privacy and competition, but it is particularly hypocritical of them to pretend they are doing the opposite.

This has also been happening with ERS returns. Location: US.

France, making the world safe for privacy violators. The EU and its member countries have become a joke.

badmonk said:

I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t have a seperate in house competing voice assistant to Siri in development.  Much like Jobs had competing PC teams back in the day.  Apple has resources to fund a Siri competitor in house.

Well, even if they do, you wouldn't know about it. I mean, it's not like they are going to announce, "We have a separate in house competing voice assistant to Siri in development." And, suppose they do and decide it's better than Siri, do you think they'll announce that they've replaced Siri with a new assistant called Sarah, or that they'll just release it as "Siri" and not tell you it's completely new?