Most iPhone Owners See Little To No Value In Apple Intelligence (9to5mac.com) 30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Mac: A new survey suggests that Apple Intelligence matters to iPhone buyers, but the majority say that the initial features add little to no value. It remains to be seen whether Genmoji and ChatGPT integration will change that view. Things are even worse for Samsung smartphones, with an even greater majority of owners saying they can't see much point in the AI features offered
A new survey by tech trade-in site SellCell found that AI is an important factor when choosing a new smartphone: "iPhone users showed relatively higher interest in mobile AI than Samsung users as almost half (47.6%) of iPhone users reported AI features as a 'very' or 'somewhat' important deciding factor when buying a new phone vs. 23.7% of Samsung users who said the same." "Smartphone users in general are unsatisfied with the existing AI features as the survey recorded 73% of Apple Intelligence users and 87% of Galaxy AI users stating the new features to be either 'not very valuable' or they 'add little to no value' to their smartphone experience," reports SellCell.
According to the survey, these are the most popular Apple Intelligence features:
- Writing Tools (72%)
- Notification summaries (54%)
- Priority Messages (44.5%)
- Clean Up in Photos (29.1%)
- Smart Reply in Mail and Messages (20.9%)
A new survey by tech trade-in site SellCell found that AI is an important factor when choosing a new smartphone: "iPhone users showed relatively higher interest in mobile AI than Samsung users as almost half (47.6%) of iPhone users reported AI features as a 'very' or 'somewhat' important deciding factor when buying a new phone vs. 23.7% of Samsung users who said the same." "Smartphone users in general are unsatisfied with the existing AI features as the survey recorded 73% of Apple Intelligence users and 87% of Galaxy AI users stating the new features to be either 'not very valuable' or they 'add little to no value' to their smartphone experience," reports SellCell.
According to the survey, these are the most popular Apple Intelligence features:
- Writing Tools (72%)
- Notification summaries (54%)
- Priority Messages (44.5%)
- Clean Up in Photos (29.1%)
- Smart Reply in Mail and Messages (20.9%)
It means you need the latest iPhone (Score:2)
Re: It means you need the latest iPhone (Score:1)
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Then you wont be able to live without it
Really, now?
I have not observed a mass extinction among us, Apple phone non-users.
I won't observe it for the "AI" non-users either.
Re: It means you need the latest iPhone (Score:1)
Right. People wont want it until they get it and start using it. Then you wont be able to live without it in a few years.
You're right. iPhone users still can't live without 3d touch.
Damn you autocarrot (Score:4, Insightful)
After the disaster that is autocarrot^H^H^H^H^H^Hcorrect I can see why people are skeptical. AI has become the new buzzword but what makes the news are examples of plagiarism, disqualification or other academic penalty for having used in an inappropriate context, bigotry, threats, and hate speech, and lastly flat out being incorrect and providing garbage results that look genuine on the surface of it but are broken.
For the way most of us would interact with AI, it's simply a tool to let a company pay less in salary to actual people who will do the job, but without the company even going through the motions to verify that the results generated are even any good.
I have no doubt that for some researchers working with absolutely massive datasets, AI could help to perform initial analysis in a way that would take people a whole lot longer than if they were doing it the old fashioned way, and with a greater likelihood of that program finding something compared to if dozens of people were working and failed to compare notes to spot such patterns, but that's not a customer-facing use of AI. The people using AI in that context are themselves already AI researchers by and large too.
There's just not a lot of reason to trust the results. They're too often wrong or ill-suited and trusted without a healthy grain of salt people are going to be steered wrong by them. Better to not use them at all if that's the end result.
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I share your pain. Autocarrot has indeed rearranged entire sentences. It does enforce the habit of carefully proofreading your text.
All hail Augmented Idiocy!
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Augmented Idiocy!
neat.
Alot of AI is a solution searching for a problem (Score:4, Insightful)
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I wouldn't even call it that much. It's really a buzzword searching for a use case. They don't have a solution to anything yet as far as I'm aware.
I think the key applications are obvious (Score:2)
But from an end user standpoint the key application is a search function people who are just barely literate can use. I hate to admit it but some software at work had an "AI" search feature that spared me from having to learn the frankly ghastly syntax of a case system I needed access to for a single query. I could have dug through the rather terrible docum
Same here (Score:2)
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And I curse a lot, so that always gets me the lame "Sorry, I can't continue this conversation"
LOL, so I better not "upgrade", then.
Where is the value proposition? (Score:5, Interesting)
These surveys are meaningless because they do not capture the sort of data that Apple captures from usage data. How will we know which AI features are useful and which ones are not? When Apple releases the next revision in iOS 19 and we see which features were retained and which ones were axed. It's going to take months and years for people to figure out how they will use these new features to their benefit. Apple knows this better than anyone. This short term survey conducted by an agency with what seems to have an agenda is meaningless. You might as well ask Trump voters which presidential accomplishments of his they admire most. (See, he hasn't been sworn in yet.)
Re:Where is the value proposition? (Score:4, Insightful)
These surveys are meaningless because they do not capture the sort of data that Apple captures from usage data. How will we know which AI features are useful and which ones are not?
You're assuming any of them will be useful. If they were useful, I'd argue that someone would have done them already.
There are two types of AI features: Features that became possible because of AI and features that were conceived because of AI. Features that are something that people have always wanted to do and suddenly became practical because of AI are rather likely to be useful. Unfortunately, nearly all features fall into the second category, which includes every feature where the conversation began with the words "How can we use AI in our product?"
When Apple releases the next revision in iOS 19 and we see which features were retained and which ones were axed. It's going to take months and years for people to figure out how they will use these new features to their benefit. Apple knows this better than anyone. This short term survey conducted by an agency with what seems to have an agenda is meaningless. You might as well ask Trump voters which presidential accomplishments of his they admire most. (See, he hasn't been sworn in yet.)
But he'll tell you how amazing his accomplishments already are. They're the best accomplishments of any president-elect ever. The best. Nobody has ever had better accomplishments than him. :-D
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It manifests itself in knowing your daily routines and automatically broadcasting to the Airplay speaker(s) near you based on your music streaming habits.
I used to have expected travel times to and from work each day showing up on my lock screen, then one day I noticed that it was showing them for the supermarket I went to each weekend. iPhones were "learning" my habits years ago, no Apple Intelligence required.
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For me, it's the little things , applied incrementally, that I find most valuable. Being able to say "Siri, add romaine hearts to the shopping list" whenever I think of something to add makes the Reminder app far more useful than it was when I had to bring up the app, go to a specific list, and type in each item.
United at Last (Score:1)
Apple, Android, Nokia, BlackBerry, and Rotary-phone users: United at last!
#epicHandshakeMeme
Apple is implementing it the right way (Score:2)
If it works... (Score:2)
Proposed utility for phone AI (Score:2)
Not everyone can be coached in interviews via an earpiece like politicians, so you too can impress your friends, close sales deals; win over potential partners with the 10 step program of letting the AI in your phone listen into your conversations and tell you what best to say in every situation.
Is it really useful yet? (Score:4, Insightful)
Speaking of which, their commercials always make their users look bad. Too stupid to properly request someone to stop eating your pudding? Too negligent to read your report before your big briefing? Don't worry, Apple has your back! By the way.... what's a computer?
AI image/video upscaling and smoothing are probably the biggest benefits for a regular user, and they're great, but I don't know how much that's actually worth and if it's that much better than a "non-AI" version. This seems like 3D TV or VR all over again, but with a serious push behind it because it means people willingly give up their data and get used to a growing lack of privacy in the name of making their lives easier.
AI has little to no direct value to me (Score:2)
The killer app: AI controlled settings (Score:2)
The killer AI app for phones should be Settings.
"Turn on Do Not Disturb."
"Flashlight on!"
"Make iCloud stop nagging me."
"Deny Camera access to all apps"
Image Playground (Score:1)
Only Apple AI feature I've found useful so far is Image Playground. Add a picture, pick from a pre-set, add a prompt and you get an interesting, copyright-free (albeit non-realistic) image. Similar to the image AI stuff inside Adobe CC or Google Sites, but much more polished. Great for creating profile pics. VERY generous with hair, weight, and skin tone.
The message or News summaries were so off had to go turn them off.
The real value in Apple Intelligence (Score:2)
... is the fact that Apple had to increase the minimum RAM on all their current hardware without raising the price. Gone are abominations like a MacBook Pro with 8 GB RAM that constantly has to swap to the SSD.
The current Mac Mini at minimum spec probably has one of the best value for money in Apple history. They probably fix that with the next upgrade cycle.
And EU citizens even get more RAM for the same price without AI (for now).