Apple, Are You Okay?

Something odd has been happening for the last few months. We’ve been hearing more and more about internal conflicts at Apple, a company typically so locked down that it makes Lockheed Martin look like a leaky sieve. First Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reported on a nasty internal fight over Siri and Apple Intelligence, complete with a recap of a team meeting. Yesterday The Information followed with a more extensive scoop on the same subject. Today we got a piece from The New York Times which strongly implies Tim Cook is failing as a leader and the company’s enormous potential is being mismanaged. Yikes. The stories and the details aren’t especially surprising if you’ve watched the abysmal response to Siri and Apple’s AI moves. Siri has been a mess for years, being one of the most secure voice assistants but also one of the stupidest and most prone to failures. Apple Intelligence is so mediocre Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal got Apple Software Chief Craig Federighi to admit it o ... Read full article.