Beyond Hacker News, I haven't seen anyone actively asking for AI features. People have been complaining about Siri for over a decade but it's not like users are turning against Apple because it isn't using an LLM (yet). Rather, it seems like users are increasingly wary of AI features being shoehorned into products they were already using.

No, i don't want AI on my phones OS. I dont want any ai search in phone settings or files or anything like this.

It would be like MS is forcing their copilot currently everywhere, it is totally useless and a nuisance.

In other words, something they cannot get from AI?

From what I've seen AI isn't driving purchasing of consumer electronics. It's mainly a talking point for reviewers.

what functionality is this?

I am yet to see ai functionality ppl are dying for.

Disagree. It's a win win. As an example, Windows and Microsoft would benefit users if they focused less on injecting useless Copilot everywhere, and more on maintenance and improvement of the core functionality of the OS while not squandering the human resource of their development teams by forcing them to work on these things; bad opportunity cost.

Not to say Apple isn't also degrading their OS with bad design changes, but "more AI" is not something users are clamoring for.

From a financial market perspective, AAPL is the second highest valuation for a publicly traded company and #1 is in first place because of the AI bubble.