> So far, they have not yet delivered on any useful AI application

AI doesn’t have to be full-blown conversational AI.

In Photos, text recognition in Photos works well, object recognition and face recognition are somewhat decent.

In Mail, I find message summarization useful.

Small steps? Yes, but I think these are useful AI applications.

I do not use them, but in accessibility, they have AI applications to describe scenes which, I think, are useful to some.

We've had content recognition in photos for a very long time. While it is sort of "AI" one still has to wonder what's new since 2022.

Siri just got AI-fied and it's worse and slower than ChatGPT in 2022. Also it doesn't work offline anymore.

I used to "describe a shortcut" maybe 5 times this week and today I was hit with "you reached the limit". Mind you I have a 17 Pro and spend $120/year on iCloud.

These are useful applications of AI - or would be if they actually worked.