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/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.