I think that Apple Intelligence is a failure of a product from an implementation standpoint. This is frustrating because the foundation they are building on top of is nearly invincible. All data is processed on device as much as possible. Everything that can't be processed on your device is put into frontier-grade security practices to make sure it's as private and encrypted as possible.
The thing that sucks about it is that they made the holy grail of remotely attested trusted compute and then made the end result so much worse to use than manually making your own integrations with Ollama on the same device.
As with Siri before, Apple heavily markets this set of features as the defining characteristic of this generation of iPhones, yet we are all supposed to approach this as though we are helping Apple make sure its products are ready? Sorry, it does not work like that. Either something is shipping or it is not, and if it does not work properly, users will quickly learn not to trust it.
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“This is our foundation for the next decade of Macintosh operating systems, and we are thrilled with it,” Jobs said on stage 25 years ago. He undershot a little bit. What he introduced that day is still the foundation of the Mac… and almost everything else Apple does. No matter what comes next, no matter where Apple and the tech industry go from here, there’s no doubt that Mac OS X has exceeded all of the expectations we had for it back on January 5, 2000.
One good thing that has come out of Apple's mad rush into GenAI is the increase in base amount of RAM without, apparently, an increase in selling price.
And even if nothing useful creative or productive-wise ever comes out of Apple Intelligence, the Private Cloud Compute thing may turn out to be deployable in other non-AI scenarios in the future.
This whole GenAI thing may still turn out to be a fad, but I am optmistic that the effort Apple has invested and will continue to invest will not be wasted.
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