Apple Officially Delays Apple Intelligence's "More Personalized Siri" feature

Today, Apple gave an official statement to John Gruber at Daring Fireball about a delay of Apple's more personalized Siri. The quote is:

Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.

My Thoughts

Software is not easy. Many developers make it look easy, but it is far from ever actually being easy. Apple's current crop of Apple Intelligence features are, in my opinion, quite lackluster. Out of Apple's list of currently available Apple Intelligence features, only Writing Tools and Genmoji are ones that are any good.

I use Writing Tools mostly as a glorified proofreader, even though it can do more, I never use those features.

Sometimes the official set of emojis are not enough, and Genmoji can help create new emojis for those situations where there is not one that works for you. Genmoji is good in that it is based on Apple's own emoji graphics, so they have full rights to use the emojis to build new ones.

One axiom that I think bears repeating, never buy a product for what it could potentially do. Instead, purchase a product for what it is capable of doing at the time of purchase. Often, purchasing a product for what it could potentially do is a losing proposition. This is because software features can, and often, are pulled before release, as is exemplified with the "More Personalized Siri" with Apple Intelligence.

Source: Daring Fireball