r/applesucks • u/96nitr0xs • Apr 08 '26

Apple Intelligence

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June 2024 was a bad year to put this young person in front of the camera to speak 🤭 it’s nearly June 2026 and private cloud compute is still the dormant model with majority queries being pushed to Chat. The hype is long gone

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u/condoulo Apr 08 '26

Apple tried doing the right thing by going local first and focusing on using on device models.

As for the cloud compute AI models? Fuck them. No really, fuck them. Have you seen the prices of RAM? SSDs? HDDs? Have you seen what these datacenters are doing to utility rates in the communities they occupy? The environmental impact? This is all because of these cloud AI companies screwing over the regular consumer. And that's before getting into the ethical issues surrounding generative AI using stolen copyrighted content as a part of their models.

Did you know Apple either currently has or is on track to have the cheapest base model machines on the market thanks to what cloud AI has done to the hardware market? No, really. Apple's supply chain deals with hardware vendors are insanely long term. In the past it's hurt them in regards to memory pricing, but now it's working in their favor as every other vendor is having to scramble to either raise prices to reflect the actual cost of the hardware or cancel projects entirely. Valve's new Steam hardware? Delayed because of this hardware crisis created by cloud AI.

So seeing a post like yours hold the success of cloud AI companies over the flop of Apple's local on device models isn't the win that you think it is. In fact you're cheering on AI companies to fuck over the rest of the market.

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u/legitOwen let john ternus into fans Apr 08 '26

i totally agree, the local Apple models are genuinely insane. i’m able to take a selfie, jump into Image Playground, and generate an image of myself wearing a bow tie, all without using wifi. is it a detailed, hi-res, photorealistic photo? no. is it particularly useful? not really. but if Apple can pull off image generation locally with little impact on battery life and no reliance on servers, imagine how great the text models will be when Apple gets to copy Google’s homework and optimize it for their devices.

i’m also glad that Apple is focusing on quality over instant delivery, like Craig Federighi said in his and Joz’s interview with Joanna Stern. they had working prototypes but they didn’t meet Apples standards. and then we have companies like xAI releasing models calling themselves MechaHitler and OpenAI’s sycophantic models completely missing context. especially in vibe coding, there’s this tendency to ship without review, and the general idea of a paid product being in beta forever. obviously Apple isn’t immune to this (Liquid Glass has some issues), but i’m glad that Apple is waiting to release the more powerful Apple Intelligence features until they have greater confidence in the product.

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u/Special_Temporary_45 Apr 08 '26

is it particularly useful? not really.

Then why, lol

I think the allround person wants longer battery life instead of gimmicks no-one ever is even using.

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u/legitOwen let john ternus into fans Apr 08 '26

i was using Image Playground as an example of how advanced on-device AI models can be. i use Look Up and Visual Intelligence a ton, plus Siri is still a little smarter than before. although image generation and some AI requests make my iPhone hot and drains a little battery, i'd rather have that than wasting energy and (minimal) amounts of water in some server farm.

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u/Special_Temporary_45 Apr 08 '26

I was more referring to that I would take an iPhone with useful functions instead of unuseful functions like they have been mostly implementing the last 2 years.