Year: 2025

Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors: Apple first updated the page in mid-March to indicate that the personalized Siri features are coming in a future software update. Apple then removed the "available now" text from the Apple Intelligence page in the U.S. on March 31, according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The "available now" text did have an asterisk that led to fine print indicating that some of the Apple Intelligence features would be coming over the course of the next year, but the NAD said this footnote was not "sufficiently clear." Good! The whole marketing behind the series of iPhone 16s…

Stephen Hackett commenting on the NYT article on what is wrong with Apple. I haven't read the NYT article but Stephen's comment is spot on: For a company that says it doesn’t like looking back at its own history, very often, Apple makes decisions like it’s the late 1990s and the company is on the verge of failure. That drives it to make incredible products, but it also means Apple can be incredibly stingy. To play in the AI race, you’ve got to be willing to spend piles and piles of cash. The world's richest company unwilling to spend money…

Hartley Charlton at MacRumors has a recap of the new report in The Information about why Siri has remained so bad. Here are some of the bits that plainly make me angry, but not surprising the state of Siri today: "Apple’s AI/ML group has been dubbed “AIMLess” internally, while employees are said to refer to Siri as a “hot potato” that is continually passed between different teams with no significant improvements." "Apple AI chief John Giannandrea was apparently confident he could fix ‌Siri‌ with the right training data and better web-scraping for answers to general knowledge questions. Senior leaders didn't…

The iPhone X, launched in 2017 at a price of £999, hasn't gone up since. You can walk into an Apple Store and get the iPhone 16 Pro for the same price of £999 now. If I were to argue that prices of the iPhones have gone down - both in terms of increasing inflation and also in terms of the features the iPhone 16 Pro offers compared to the iPhone X 8 years ago - there wouldn't be much or any rebuttal against my argument. Every year it feels like a price increase is imminent, but the iPhone has…

Apple dropping bad news on a Friday on Daring Fireball Not surprised at all, but the whole marketing point the iPhones 16 rode on was Apple intelligence and that series of iPhones 16 were the first phones “built for Apple Intelligence”. I never liked Apple marketing pushing Apple Intelligence when the phones did not launch with them and was promised that users will get the features during the year. So far we have seen Siri get a new coat of paint and a few other features and the consensus is that it’s very underwhelming. I personally like the ability to…

Ryan Christoffel, writing for 9To5Mac: Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I use visionOS. I have been using a 6th generation iPad Mini for a couple of months now, and this is the first time I have been dealing with TouchID over FaceID (apart from my MacBook, that is). TouchID is my least favourite thing about this iPad. There are usually many discussions or debates online regarding TouchID vs FaceID, and I often thought of them as meaningless, as FaceID is always the clear…