This is exactly the sort of software that was hard to prioritise before LLMs, and trivial to build with LLMs.
There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.
The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.
Apple is a multi-trillion dollar corporation. They spent billions on a doomed car project which never saw the light of day. They release unfinished software on an unsustainable schedule. Their software quality has been declining for over a decade. Their design is lacklustre now and issues go unaddressed indefinitely. They are shoving ads everywhere.
The last thing they need is more things to get distracted with. They don’t need LLMs, they need to care and focus on making good products.
They bought Siri, and 5 years later it was still only serviceable at setting an alarm or timer.
Yet due to their hardware and market presence, they've still probably got the best chance of "winning" personal AI.
Quite frankly I think that is the primary reason why Apple hasn't care much about Siri. It's not a make or break feature, very few has probably switched to Android because Siri sucks. Not improving on Siri has cost Apple very little.
Right now shareholders expect a visible AI play. Apple doesn't have much in terms of visible AI, there's plenty of AI features in e.g. the Photo app and Mail, but investors want a chatbot. That's what the market thinks AI looks like and Siri is what Apple has that fits the bill.
Google assistant is not that much better so I agree that siri is not make or break.
Its kinda silly that investors think this incredible technology (AI) is just chat... when its real utility is really doing invisible things (for better or for worse)
danpalmer · · focus · HN ↗
There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.
The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.
latexr · · focus · HN ↗
The last thing they need is more things to get distracted with. They don’t need LLMs, they need to care and focus on making good products.
jiscariot · · focus · HN ↗
kingjha · · focus · HN ↗
mrweasel · · focus · HN ↗
Right now shareholders expect a visible AI play. Apple doesn't have much in terms of visible AI, there's plenty of AI features in e.g. the Photo app and Mail, but investors want a chatbot. That's what the market thinks AI looks like and Siri is what Apple has that fits the bill.
abustamam · · focus · HN ↗
Its kinda silly that investors think this incredible technology (AI) is just chat... when its real utility is really doing invisible things (for better or for worse)