Copilot is a far less insufferable and misleading name.
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'Apple Intelligence' Personal AI Unveiled for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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Plus, by the time competent Siri launches, alongside all the other AI stuff, there will be a new family of iPhones to buy.
I was thinking about maybe waiting for the iPhone 17, but this looks good enough.
Right, so Apple bought P.A. Semiconductor for $250 million because they needed someone to order a bunch of specs. Your ignorance here is ASTOUNDING.
I really do not like the name "Apple Intelligence," just sounds...funny? I dunno.
Very excited to have a new, actually somewhat intelligent Siri. I avoid using the current Siri like the plague.
Very excited to have a new, actually somewhat intelligent Siri. I avoid using the current Siri like the plague.
I wonder will Apple Intelligence will also be extended so it works with A16 SoC. It might just happen with a later beta of iOS 18. In short, you need at minimum an iPhone 15 Pro for it to work. And even the upcoming iPhone 16/16 Plus will support it due to the A18 SoC being a subset of the A18 Pro SoC likely used on the iPhone 16 Pro/16 Pro Max models.
Apple handled AI as perfectly as I could expect. As long as everything works as they said, it sounds like this is the absolute best AI experience on any platform. I doubt anyone can seriously disagree,
Not really, there is a reason why Microsoft requires all windows copilot+ PCs to have minimum 45 TOPs and 16GB RAM to enable similar features. A17 Pro has 35 TOPS vs A16 17 TOPS, A15 15.8 TOPS. But also equally important is RAM, iPhone 15 Pro has 8GB of RAM, devices below that have just 6GB. They are trying to do as much on device as possible.
They even mentioned the ability to use cloud processing which makes this argument doubly ridiculous. You can bet that even on the latest A17 devices it'll be reaching out to the cloud a lot, and probably not much more than it would be on A16 and A15. But even if some queries may take twice as long on my A15 as a brand new A17 due to having slower on-chip processing, who cares honestly, as long as it works...
Unreleased software updates instantly make existing hardware useless! Are you new here? Someone’s 14 Pro just became as useless as an XR based on an earlier message!
Us Apple users are a salty bunch, it seems.
I find it highly suspicous that only the A17 Pro and above can handle it. Considering the M1 chips are based on the A14 IIRC. But expanded for traditional computing use.
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Yeah no kidding -- if that feature means that much to you, just upgrade this fall. I feel like the non-pro iPhone 16 will have this capability because they want it across all of their new family of devices this year.Unreleased software updates instantly make existing hardware useless! Are you new here? Someone’s 14 Pro just became as useless as an XR based on an earlier message!
Us Apple users are a salty bunch, it seems.
I agree! It is pathetic that Apple isn't at least supporting iPhone 13/14 and later.
Oh, there's no technical feat involved with rewriting an OS to run on ARM? The only one that seems to be hurting form the truth here is you...but you want it to somehow hurt someone else.
The fact you think that Apple doesn't develop the technology they use tells me you know just about zero about all of this and are coming in with a fixed bias...I think there's a term for that...hmm.
It’s a shame that Apple software announcements retroactively made your phone less powerful. I wish Apple would stop dabbing in their dark magic to neuter existing capabilities in existing devices!
Also, “no longer supports” implies that your phone ever DID support it. Is this another instance of time travel neutering?
Seems they could at least offer a "lite" version other iPhone models can handle.
How exactly will this work? If you have a device that isn’t supported iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia just don’t surface it to you? You get the existing Siri interface?
Also, it will work with 4 year old M1 devices but won’t work with an iPhone released last year? Crazy. You’d think they could at least have a ‘lite’ version for older hardware.
Also, it will work with 4 year old M1 devices but won’t work with an iPhone released last year? Crazy. You’d think they could at least have a ‘lite’ version for older hardware.
Looks like I’ll be holding onto my iPhone 14 as long as possible now! I don’t want integrated LLMs!
Yet, they didn't name it "ChatGPT for Windows, M365, Azure, etc.". The only thing insufferable here is how upset you are over Apple's branding of THEIR product.
The chat GPT integration and Apple Intelligence are completely different. And Apple did do the work on Apple Intelligence, making it far more useful than just making a chat bot. There’s no misleading here.
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My guess is that Siri gets the visual update across the OS, but what types of requests it can handle depend on the hardware.
I'll say this as nicely as I can: stop embarrassing yourself. We're not laughing with you, just so you know.
Apple is not even using regular ARM-designed cores, they're a full-blown ARM ISA licensee, meaning, their chips aren't necessarily compatible with other ARM chips.
For sure, virtualising other ARM-based OSes on Apple Silicon chips will always be faster than emulating chips with different ISAs, but that's only part of the equation… We may see an ever-growing split between Qualcomm and Samsung chips on the PC side and Apple chips on the other, despite all of them being possibly fabricated by TSMC, just because they have different designs and their OSes different requirements to go with them.
AFAIK, only Intel designs and produces its own chips, with even AMD using its now spun-off fab branch GlobalFoundries instead of owning its own fabs.
Sorry to disappoint you, but their Apple Intelligence does not more on-device than Samsung's Advanced Intelligence does. Apple is just pretending to do more than the others. It is mostly a copy of Samsung features anyway.