Apple Intelligence to miss initial releases of iOS 18, iPadOS 18

Apple, still scrambling to catch up after missing the artificial intelligence revolution, will begin rolling out Apple Intelligence features later than anticipated, missing the initial launch of its upcoming iOS 18 and iPadO 18 releases.

Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
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The company is planning to begin rolling out Apple Intelligence to customers as part of software updates coming by October, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That means the AI features will arrive a few weeks after the initial iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 releases planned for September, said the people, who declined to be identified discussing unannounced release details.

Still, the iPhone maker is planning to make Apple Intelligence available to software developers for the first time for early testing as soon as this week via iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1 betas, they added.

Concerns over the stability of Apple Intelligence features, in part, led the company to split the features from the initial launch of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.

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MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s announce-first, release-later A.I. catch-up strategy will still work if they can begin to release at least some new Apple Intelligence features before Christmas shopping season.

Apple’s mad scramble to catch up continues unabated.

Yes, Apple is not as innovative as it was under Steve Jobs who even started the company’s work on Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, but the company — thanks to Jobs and Cook’s subsequent management of iterations of products and services conceived during Jobs’ tenure — now has more than enough money to make up for Cook’s lack of vision. – MacDailyNews, February 16, 2024

Tim’s not a product person, per se. – Steve Jobs

Until it gets another visionary leader (fingers crossed; Apple’s history has shown – cough, Sculley, Spindler, cough – that the next CEO could be far, far worse than the very competent caretaker Cook), Apple can afford to miss things like generative AI – which they clearly did – and then use its huge war chest to catch up – which they’re doing right now (fun times and 80-hour weeks inside Apple Park!) – and, hopefully, surpass rivals (or at least be as good). Apple will very likely unveil their catch-up work within months (this June at WWDC 2024) in iPhones (and iPads, Apple Watches, etc.) with built-in on-device generative AI and other new AI-driven features. – MacDailyNews, February 14, 2024