Apple may have belatedly responded to accusations of showing off Siri vaporware at last year’s WWDC, but the controversy is showing no sign of dying down anytime soon.John Gruber – author of the original piece taking issue with Apple showing off features it hadn’t demonstrated to anyone outside the company – is now joined by M.G.Siegler and others … How it started Apple showed off some extremely impressive-looking new-Siri features at year’s WWDC, doubling down on these in an ad for the iPhone 16, promising that these capabilities were “coming soon.” The company subsequently walked back the “soon” promise, and deleted the ad.
John Gruber had frequently supported Apple’s claims that it doesn’t do vaporware, but he changed his mind following this.He noted that the claimed capabilities hadn’t been demo’d to a single journalist, and even Apple insiders he spoke to said they’d never seen them working.How it’s going We had to wait a year for Apple to respond, but two senior execs did so in an interview last week when asked about the vaporware claim.
However, Gruber isn’t satisfied, and suggests that this fits Apple’s prior use of the term when criticising claims by other companies, and also breaks Apple’s own keynote rules.Developer Russell Ivanovic says it’s vaporware by any reasonable definition of the term.M.G.
Siegler, a well-known tech investor who was a partner at Google Ventures for more than a decade, notes that Apple made fun of competitor claims about products at .Props for the title of his piece: .What’s your view? Is Apple right to claim it’s real if the capabilities exist internally, even if they aren’t good enough to even demo to journalists? Or is new Siri indeed still vaporware at this point? Please share your views in the comments.
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