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Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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252 points diwank | 12 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
1. rvnx ◴[15 Oct 24 16:23 UTC] No.41850203[source]▶
Is there somewhere where this Apple Intelligence can be used ?
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2. zie ◴[15 Oct 24 16:30 UTC] No.41850297[source]▶
Some of it is available in the beta's, but no, it's not released to stable yet.
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3. dumbo-octopus ◴[15 Oct 24 16:36 UTC] No.41850354[source]▶
Which boggles the mind… did nobody tell the software team that a release was coming?
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4. fshbbdssbbgdd ◴[15 Oct 24 16:43 UTC] No.41850445{3}[source]▶
Apple doesn’t have a reputation for letting engineers slack. I have to guess they are working like dogs to meet some standard before they are willing to release.
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5. bradgessler ◴[15 Oct 24 16:46 UTC] No.41850475[source]▶
You can get it in the public betas, but it’s very underwhelming and not useful. I’m surprised they’re talking this up so much to be honest.
6. zie ◴[15 Oct 24 20:38 UTC] No.41852846{3}[source]▶
It clearly wasn't ready. My guess: the powers that be decided they had to make a public showing of being an AI company, hence the giant marketing push ahead of release.

It's unknown how useful any of this will be in day to day use-cases.

7. hbn ◴[15 Oct 24 21:07 UTC] No.41853140{3}[source]▶
I don't think Apple can simply delay an iPhone. There's entire industries relying on there being a new iPhone out every September.
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8. nicbou ◴[15 Oct 24 22:06 UTC] No.41853599[source]▶
And it’s not coming to the European Union.
9. dumbo-octopus ◴[15 Oct 24 23:14 UTC] No.41854089{4}[source]▶
They don’t have a reputation for releasing hardware without software to back it either. One way or another, an unprecedented process failure has occurred.
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10. dumbo-octopus ◴[15 Oct 24 23:17 UTC] No.41854103{4}[source]▶
Apple of yesteryear would issue a patch update model and let this feature cook until it was ready for release. Current approach is sloppy in a decidedly un-Apple way.
11. fshbbdssbbgdd ◴[16 Oct 24 07:13 UTC] No.41856384{5}[source]▶
Well, the phone’s software works great. They just haven’t released those new AI features - which are supposed to come out on some older devices as well. And it’s hardly the first time Apple delayed a release.

IMO, the only thing weird here is the way the iPhone 16 demo day kept talking about these unreleased features front and center instead of the actual capabilities of the new phone. Probably that’s because the phone is so incremental and there was not much to talk about.

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12. dumbo-octopus ◴[16 Oct 24 07:21 UTC] No.41856441{6}[source]▶
Can you name another time the software team has lagged so far behind the hardware release and marketing? Nearly every ad I’ve seen the world over has touted “Apple Intelligence” as if it’s a thing that exits, not some Coming Soon^{TM} pipe dream.

My money is on it being a massive failure if it ever does come out, the only thing stopping me from buying options is I don’t have a clue as to the timeline for when they’ll give up and ship whatever they have.