Apple is working on a generative AI push with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, and watchOS 11 poised to bring such technology to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch in 2024.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
Late last month, Apple Inc. head of software engineering Craig Federighi made a rare call. He decided to freeze development work on the company’s next major software updates because the quality of initial versions missed the mark. The break allowed Apple to debug the software and improve performance.
The next generation of Apple’s software — iOS 18 and other operating systems due next year — is even more critical than usual. The company is racing to catch up with Google and OpenAI in generative AI, and iOS 18 is poised to bring such technology to the iPhone.
The iOS update also needs to be extra-impressive because the iPhone 16’s hardware won’t have any major advances next year. So Apple is banking on the software to sell people on the new models.
In light of that, Apple is treading carefully, which helps explain the recent delay…
After a few years of modestly sized updates to iOS, the next version of the iPhone and iPad software could be relatively groundbreaking.
Internally, Apple’s senior management has described its upcoming operating systems as “ambitious and compelling,” with major new features and designs, in addition to security and performance improvements.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple generative AI, like all of the rest, will only be as good as what it’s fed; “you are what you eat” is very true for generative AI. Hopefully, Apple has found a way to harness the massive scale of its 2+ billion installed base in a way that trains generative AI while completely preserving user privacy.
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Completely preserving privacy while creating large training sets is about as likely as the NY Giants winning this year’s Super Bowl
With aggregated input you’d get AI only giving aggregate responses. Very limited personalization for this type of AI. Maybe Apple’s aim is to have iOS devices try to weave the aggregate responses with any personalization within the device themselves. Don’t see it being probable but definitely possible.
“The company is racing to catch up with Google and OpenAI in generative AI, and iOS 18 is poised to bring such technology to the iPhone.
Under Clueless Cook and iPhone bean counter extraordinaire — Cook is BEHIND on most everything involving cutting edge tech.
The Apple Apologists and the Woke Warriors are the first to NOT SEE it coming and reflexively defend the tech impediment Apple CEO. Again, the quicker Apple sunsets Cook and hires a highly competent creatively thinking CEO, the brighter Apple’s future will be beyond yearly iPhone profits.
That said, Apple veterans such as myself — we shall see and carefully analyze Apple AI. While it has potential, it also carries risks including an explosion of copyright infringement cases and potential to make political figures look better than they are…
Is Cook really that bad,
GoeBBie?
Apple is always “late” to the party – that’s what happens when you have 1000 no’s for every yes. You are rarely “first” because you are focused on doing things right and learning from everyone else’s mistakes, rather than rushing and then cancelling your Samsung Ocullus Headset, your Samsung gesture controls, your Google Glass and Google Dream headsets etc.
GoeB, your output is voluminous, impressive and can often be right, but is Tim really the Tim Crook or Tim Cock you make him out to be, rather than 3 hat Cordon Blue Tim Chef that he really is?
Apple does have its questionable moments being ‘late’, where they buy out a perfectly great tech/app, remove support for other OSes, then goes on to ‘integrate’ it into Apple’s own product and somehow creates a worse product than what was originally more widely available. Looking at “Dark Sky” ruined for everyone here..
It’s well past time to stop projecting the Apple Computer of Steve Jobs onto modern-day Apple Inc. Don’t tell me there are 1000 nos for ever yes. The company has given us “I don’t have an answer for that” Siri, buggy and rushed OS updates (no one is demanding big annual updates besides Apple’s marketing department and execs), notches galore, the perpetually-hobbled iPad and boring-as-hell, scripted events pre-recorded by diversity hires who couldn’t speak live in public if their life depended on it. Apple will continue to exist because of its astounding wealth, but the leadership weaknesses are apparent and as uninspiring as Cook is I think its downhill from here.