(…) Apple Intelligence was both the worst and best thing to happen to Apple as far as the AI bubble goes.
It was a mass-radicalization of its users against AI – an attempt to cram a barely-functional series of add-ons that nobody asked for in the most-obtrusive way possible, with summaries that were almost immediately turned into memes and a new Siri that was, somehow, even worse than the old Siri.
And I think that told Apple to pump the brakes. It’s barely spent anything on capex. It’s barely done anything with AI. Despite headline after headline claiming it’s “falling behind,” nobody can really explain what it is it’s falling behind on or why it matters. People hate Apple Intelligence, and I think Apple knows that, and so they’re going to jingle the keys for the markets by putting “AI” on stuff without ever really putting their back into it.
Yeah I agree with you there, no one should have used the ChatGPT extension with Siri back then.
Are you talking about the plans for iOS27 when you talk about the encapsulated requests?
I’ll have to read a bit more into that, if anything is available yet
Yes, I was talking about how they described how Apple Intelligence will work at WWDC.
Their posted information is more vague on how it is supposed to work but doesn’t ring any alarm bells.
Your link is for the current OS only, but I found details about iOS27 in the newsroom.
There are a few subtle differences that are probably crucial. Both iOS26 and 27 use Private Cloud Compute. For 26 they specify that it runs on Apple silicon servers (not necessarily owned by Apple) and that no personal data is shared with Apple. For SiriAI in iOS27 it says that data is processed on servers using Private Cloud Compute (without specifically mentioning Apple silicon) and state no data is shared with Apple or others. Which would imply it runs on Google’s servers who are the ‘others’ with potential access.
For me that is too much ambiguity, but I look forward to people more capable than me investigating and testing these claims thoroughly