Which AI products that they have actually implemented are bad? I think Siri is pretty poor to be fair and improves at a glacial pace. Pretty much everything else I'd say is state of the art from things like text selection from images, cutting out of image subject, their computational photography, even Map directions have come a long way.
When people talk about AI they mean the new tech like LLM or Diffusion, and the only relevant Apple offering (Siri) is way behind and there's no evidence they have anything to replace it.
(Aside, their image manipulation and Map is worse - though with Maps I dunno what's the underlying issue, and OCR was already mostly solved. I'm far from a photography expert so can't compare there).
True that. But I won't give Apple credit for products we can't see or assume good performance without proof. As they say in the movies: "Show me the money".
I'll say though that no multibillion company is under existential threat. Not Apple, not Google and not even Intel. At worst they will lose a couple tens of billions and some marketshare. Even IBM still exists and took a long long time to fall to where it is still today.
