The company’s top executives are taking “intense personal accountability.”
  • Apple’s progress with Siri and artificial intelligence has been slow, and features promised in June remain delayed.
  • At a Siri team meeting, senior director Robby Walker acknowledged the frustration within the team, describing the delays as “ugly.”
  • Features like Siri understanding personal context and taking action based on a user’s screen are still not ready and may not make it into iOS 19.
  • Challenges include quality issues that caused these features to malfunction up to a third of the time and conflicts with Apple’s marketing division over showcasing incomplete features.
  • Apple has withdrawn related advertisements and added disclaimers on its website, citing extended development times.
  • Senior executives, including Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea, are reportedly taking personal accountability for the delays.
  • Walker emphasized that the team’s work is impressive and that the delayed features will be released once they meet Apple’s standards.
  • midori matcha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    17 hours ago

    Apple Intelligence hasn’t been much better than old Siri on unsupported devices.

    For a third of the time, she has a hard time recognizing the trigger word the first time (usually “Siri” rather than “Hey Siri”), and not perform my commands when all I want her to do is act as a voice-activated light switch.

    What exactly is the trillion dollar company struggling with here?

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Honestly I don’t really want a smart context-aware Siri, I just want something I can give simple, straightforward voice commands to, and get predictable, reliable results.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Interesting timing, where I’m seeing the opposite. All my Amazon devices suddenly can’t turn on a simple light switch, and one appears to have somehow factory reset.

      However Siri works perfectly. I use a button rather than wake word, but then it dies actually turn on my light

      • fishy@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        It’s been theorized that Amazon is progressively making all Alexa devices worse so they can sell you on a subscription based AI version.

        • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Maybe, but they may lose more customers than they expect ….

          There are privacy based devices for “always listening” voice assistants coming on strong

          I already use Siri with a button for a lot. recently it seems able to recognize more of my smarthome devices and it will now prompt to forward more complex queries to ChatGPT

          I’m really down to the intercom feature being the only reason to keep Alexa - I can’t control the devices my kids use at their mom’s house