You say slowly, but in my opinion Apple made an out of character misstep by releasing a terrible UX to everyone. Apple intelligence is a running joke now.
Yes they didn't push it as hard as, say, copilot. I still think they got in way too deep way too fast.
This is not the first time that Apple has released a terrible UX that very few users liked, and it certainly wont be the last.
I don’t necessarily agree with the post you’re responding to, but what I will give Apple credit for is making their AI offering unobtrusive.
I tried it, found it unwanted and promptly shut it off. I have not had to think about it again.
Contrast that with Microsoft Windows, or Google - both shoehorning their AI offering into as many facets of their products as possible, not only forcing their use, but in most cases actively degrading the functionality of the product in favor of this required AI functionality.
Yep. Replacing google assistant with Gemini before feature parity was even close is such a fuck-you to users.
On Instagram, the search is now "powered by Meta AI". Cannot do anything about it.
Apple had their hand forced by Google on that one afaik.
Yes they knew Apple maps was bad and not up to standard yet, but they didn't really have any other choice.
Of course they had a choice: they could have stuck with google maps for longer, and they probably also could have invested more in data and UI beforehand. They could have launched a submarine non-apple-branded product to test the waters. They could likely have done other things we haven't thought of here, in this thread.
Quite plausibly they just didn't realize how rocky the start would be, or perhaps they valued that immediate strategic autonomy more in the short-term that we think, and willingly chose to take the hit to their reputation rather than wait.
Regardless, they had choices.
Sure, and now you can also say they had their hand forced by Google again, or by Anthropic, or by whatever other AI companies are out there.
Remember „You are a bad user, I am a good bing“? Apple is just slower in fixing and improving things.
Fast!? They were two years slow and still fell face flat, and then rolled back the software
“Two years slow” relative to what?
Henry Ford was 23 years “slow” relative to Karl Benz.
Apple innovation glazing makes me ill
What does this mean?
Apple made a huge mistake by keeping their commitment to "local first" in the age of AI.
The models and devices just aren't quite there yet.
Once Google gets its shit together and starts deploying (cloud--based) AI features to Android devices en masse, Apple is going to have a really big problem on their hands.
Most users say that they want privacy, but if privacy comes in the way of features or UX, they choose the latter. Successful privacy-respecting companies (Apple, Signal) usually understand this, it's why they're successful, but I think Apple definitely chose the wrong tradeoff here.