Apple's Slow AI Play: Value Proposition for Responsible, Integrated AI

Published on 07/21/2025Trend Spotting / Early Adopter Signals

Apple's cautious approach to AI, in contrast to competitors, highlights a potential shift in market perception: that AI integration should prioritize user experience, privacy, and safety over speed or raw computational power. This creates opportunities for: 1) AI solution providers who can differentiate themselves by emphasizing responsible AI development, ethical considerations, and seamless, privacy-preserving integration into existing workflows, aligning with Apple's perceived values. 2) Consulting services that advise businesses on how to strategically adopt AI with a long-term, user-centric vision, rather than just chasing the latest tech fad. This 'slow and steady' approach can be marketed as a more trustworthy and sustainable path for AI adoption.

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Why Apple is playing it slow with AI

Posted by u/mikenolan56707/21/2025

Top Comments

u/yuvaldv1
Depends what implementation of AI you're talking about. Apple's supposed "personal context Siri" looked pretty damn useful, too bad it also didn't exist.
u/WayyyCleverer
the text message summaries are awful and when siri asks me to confirm that it can use chatgpt every time my immediate reaction is to turn it off altogether
u/OiMyTuckus
I can personally tell you it was garbage. I turned it off after a week. I don’t need Siri to constantly plan my route to work or throw in a bunch of garbage suggestions. It was just clutte
u/OiMyTuckus
Maybe read the article. Pretty clear explanation. AI is a gimmick right now. Every damn half assed ”AI assistant” is pretty worthless, buggy crap.
u/yuvaldv1
Not exactly "playing it slow", more like "failed to recognize an upcoming major trend and is now fumbling around trying to catch up"
u/MountHopeful
Right, so the things that it would be great that AI could do, but can't, would be great. What's worse, to not have features (Apple) or to have features that work terribly (everyone else)?
u/TheBlueArsedFly
Lol you're one of those Apple apologists. No, Apple have admitted before that they fell behind. Siri is the prime example. Also, I work with LLM coding models every day as a lead software e
u/Rhaegar0
Hehe, still waiting on when Apple AI blowing is all away like the famous have been claiming for the past 2 years. I guess they now switched to 'AI isn't cool anyway'. Apple just got caught w
u/TheBlueArsedFly
Yeah but if you frame it as "playing it slow" the fanbois are able to cope better. 
u/yuvaldv1
I'm not talking about what actually came out with Apple Intelligence. The Siri that can draw on your personal context never came out (they demoed it during WWDC 2024).
u/ErinDotEngineer
Classic Apple. Apple waits for others to prove out the Market and comes in and provides a streamlined and elegant addition to their ecosystem. Their goal is never to be first, it is to be t
u/yuvaldv1
What's worse it to not have the features working, but advertise them as such and then sell "Apple Intelligence Ready" iPhones, when in reality, they were not. And that's exactly what Apple
u/OiMyTuckus
Doesn’t that confirm what the article is saying? Honestly, I don’t have a horse in this race. I don’t even like Siri. It’s not inconceivable both your take and article‘s take have relati
u/Bob_Spud
Apple's focus is hardware and the ecosystem lock-in. Consumer grade AI on other devices doesn't seem to be a big selling point so far, I think 3D TVs had more appeal for a short time. What

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