Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AIOne day the Vision Pro could exploit the technology to the fullThe EconomistThe Economist It feels like The Economist hits all the right points in this clapback on the current wave of Apple backlash: In short, with its market value down| Spyglass
(Starting off with John Gruber's Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino – which is both right and aptly put – but followed by a crazy quilt of reactions.)| Take
John Gruber: The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to...| SchwarzTech
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.| atp.fm
Re-reading some of the quotes curated by Michael Tsai in the already-discussed Rotten commentary round-up, I noticed this bit by Om Malik, which had escaped my attention for some reason: I have my own explanation, something my readers are familiar with, and it is the most obvious one. Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which prevents it from doing something radical, Apple has its own golden handcuffs. It’s a company weighed down by its market capitalization and what stock...| Riccardo Mori
As usual, Michael Tsai assembles a remarkable roundup of opinions and reactions after John Gruber’s recent piece Something is rotten in the State of Cupertino, where he finally criticises Apple for essentially over-over-promising and under-under-underdelivering on Apple Intelligence, especially regarding the announced improvements to Siri. What I find involuntarily funny in this specific wave of criticism is that for some of these people this has been the straw that broke the camel’s back...| Riccardo Mori
Rotten| Michael Tsai
John Gruber is not mincing his words. What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a compa…| On my Om
Whither Swift Assist?| Michael Tsai
This announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply private on-device information.| Daring Fireball
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and advertise these features in a TV commercial, and promote them as a selling point of the iPhone 16 lineup?| Daring Fireball
