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As long as it can be shut off, I'm okay with Apple shoving this into the devices.

I like the option called "off".

Why not just add ChatGPT behind Siri?

Put it everywhere, just like Microsoft

There are things that the user wants, and there are things that are good for the user. The two are rarely the same.

This is neither.

More proof that the biggest morons rise to the top of the capitalism rancid stew.

Apple has been speedrunning problems and bad decisions since Ternus took over: the iPhone duo, macos 27 being buggy as fuck and making it difficult to disable the siri ai bs, the new macbook having an OLED that flickers so slowly it gives you eyestrain, the apple tv going from $150 to $300

Are people hired to be CEOs because they are dooshbags or do people become dooshbags because they are CEOs?

The stuff they just released is so bad. My 17 Pro used to open an app immediately when I asked Siri and now she churns for over 5 seconds sometime before opening things. Went from a time saving shortcut to an annoyance.

She can’t understand anything going on with my phone, she misunderstands me a lot more than before. Keeps requesting the same permissions over and over with no way to permanently grant them. Navigation is ridiculous she’ll navigate to a town in the next country before a name in my contacts. Having really loved iPhones since 2010 this will be my last one. I’m bound for grapheneos or something similar have already begun moving my data out of their cloud in anticipation.

That's a rather obvious and expected move in my eyes. After all, they had setup themselves for deep AI integration with their processor changes about a decade ago already. I was wondering for a while why they never really played their hand so far. Siri was not the epitome of that development.

In other news soon... Apple lays off 40% of employees.

I chose the iPhone 15 specifically because it did not support Apple Intelligence.

What I want is options, not being screwed into paying to burn fossil fuels (for AI data centers), for O&G to say we "demand" fossil combustion.

There’s a bigger issue here at play. The way members inside 3GPP are planning for how 6G technology works (if passes, if not it goes to 7G planning) is that your phones AI model is fine tuned based on all your behaviors and set of predictions and your phones AI will communicate to an agent either close to the phones modem and/or speak to another agent at the nearest 6G tower or NTN with a 6G Core.

If people were to see what standards organizations make up, your mind would be blown. There’s a lot of good intentions, but just enough people to use cool tech for bad. $$$

Being back Tim Apple. John Apple sucks if his pushes are going to be on iPhones folding out into iPad mini’s for $2000 and Siri AI

After updating my phone to the Apple Intelligence stuff I now have a 3+ second stall/freeze when asking Siri anything, including the fucking timer.

It also lags out hard typing into the address bar on Safari.

I’m so poised that they stopped updating security in the previous OS.

Huh, when did Tim Cook go?

yea he’s dropping the ball with everything he’s announced and released since taking over. steve is rolling in his grave with the touch screen, folding phone, ai, price increases, shitty operating system redesigns, etc

Craig Federighi

I know this isn’t on topic, but my brain interpreted this guy’s last name as Ferengi, and given the topic I figured I’d run with it.

Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”

I'd say we should expect to see an interview with Federighi, with pained expression, claiming, "this was not the apple that I knew and loved, I just had to leave", in the near future.

But then, this is a Mark "twice a day? that clock is going to take my job!" Gurman interview.