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Thompson: Apple will have to pay foundational AI model makers
“I was very optimistic about Apple's Apple Intelligence announcement last year, and the theoretical power it would give them over the model makers, and now I'm ready, actually no, they're gonna have to pay up.”
Coogan: Apple will bar third-party AI agents from iOS local APIs
“They have their walled garden. The walls are staying up. They're not letting Claude Cowork go around your iOS installation and hook into all your different local APIs. That's the domain of Apple intelligence.”
Gurman: Apple's initial Apple Intelligence rollout was a terrible service
“Launched this terrible AI service, Apple Intelligence, that didn't really work well. And what they found out is that it didn't resonate with customers as much as prior iPhones.”
Lessin: Apple Intelligence text summaries are comically bad
“At the same time, you know, I don't know if you guys get the Apple intelligence summaries or texts, but they're like comically bad.”
Hays: Apple Intelligence shipped prematurely and required significantly more consumer testing
“So really seemingly a product that, that should have not been widely, you know, shipped and just needed quite a bit more testing.”
Hays: Apple will block iMessage data portability to Google's Gemini
“I have zero faith that there will be any portability. And the reason for that is Apple's paying Google to effectively, yeah, white label the model, leverage Gemini in the next version of Apple intelligence. And they're just gonna be focused on integrating it w…”
Coogan: European iPhone sales outpaced US growth despite lacking Apple Intelligence
“In fact, Europe outgrew the U S in iPhone sales and they don't have Apple intelligence at all with the exception of the UK for a couple of weeks in December.”
Coogan: Apple will eventually perfect AI and Siri integration via on-device data
“I think Apple will eventually dial it in. I mean, the tech is just so good at this point, it's, like, really easy, and they have a bunch of interesting ways to integrate with all the data in your phone, so you'll just be able to talk to Siri more”