Beats me. My best guess is they let the hype blind them to the reality that this tech wasn’t merely a few months away from the production-level reliability they needed from it. After a while, it sank in that they couldn’t play this up as a ‘just around the corner’ release and stopped hyping up every useless beta-at-best feature like it was a huge deal. Then, when the “we’re nowhere close” internal communique was leaked, it was officially time to bow out of the hype cycle for a while.

First, I’d like to know what is the deal with Siri not being able to tell me the date without a network connection.

Apple’s biggest problem is their commitment to privacy. Delivering effective AI requires a substantial amount of user data that Apple doesn’t collect.

Their other problem is they value designers and product managers more than engineers (especially top tier AI engineers).

Both problems are basically the death knell of any hope for Apple to have good AI, but combined? It’s never gonna happen. Which is sad because Apple’s on-device hardware is quite good.