Oh the press AI hit job. Here we go.
No one has reached the bar.
No one has reached the bar.
AI products have shown a lot of progress over the past few years, even if they haven't "reached the bar".
But Apple is failing to deliver anything solid in the same time frame. Disregarding an arbitrary notion of "reaching the bar", they need to show progress.
There's basically one "killer ai app", that's the chatbot. There's a second, plausible case, for agentic additions to IDEs.
But where is this high bar we're meant to be seeing? All I see is google and stackoverflow being replaced by openai.
Inverting it, what are the AI features that Google has shipped that are getting people to upgrade their Android phones, or to switch to Android?
My Apple devices are pretty useful for AI devices now given that I can run e.g. ChatGPT and Claude on them. I know they have to do something so the tech press can stop saying they are behind, but it still feels premature given lack of consensus on how best to integrate phones with the unreliable AIs we have today.
To whom?
We have shitty chatbots which confidently spew garbage and a new button on laptops no one wanted.
And the customers are worried that the technology is coming for their jobs, their income and their lives.