After criticism of Siri-Debakel: Apple rejects traditional WWDC interview

John Gruber’s “The Talk Show” will take place on Apple’s developer conference WWDC this year without top top managers from the group. He invited Apple as usual, but “they rejected for the first time since 2015”, the commentator and Host John Gruber saidwithout naming further details. In recent years, Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi has been a guest at Gruber, in 2024-after the announcement of Apple Intelligence-on top of that by AI boss John Giannandrea.

Sharp criticism of Siri vaporware

Gruber had recently sharply criticized Apple for improvements in the language assistance system Siri, which the group has not been able to implement last year. At the last talk show, the topic of Siri only took place as a marginal mention, but the basic innovations promised at the time did not. Apple showed a Siri system that records the user’s context information on the device and should also be able to carry out actions across several apps. One of the announced functions applied in an advertising spot for the start of the iPhone 16 last September.

In March Apple admitted succinctly, the manufacturer needed more time to implement the Siri functions, they should only be released “next year”. Gruber asked Apple to demonstrate the announced Siri skills in concrete and live. The group “promised too much on the last WWDC (if not a lie),” said Gruber.

Problem child Siri

Siri has been a problem for a long time, the system works inconsistently and-in contrast to the increasingly experienced-looking conversation skills of the AI ​​competitors-provides only a few questions. With Apple Intelligence, Chatgpt can now be requested via Siri, but the external AI model cannot control any device functions and only delivers text annual words.

With a large management Rocade, Apple apparently tries to get the debacle under control. Now it has to be shown whether the group can not only implement the announced SIRI functions, but is also able to fundamentally improve the voice assistance system.