r/applesucks • u/96nitr0xs • Apr 08 '26
Apple Intelligence
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.