No One Is Buying Phones for AI

No One Is Buying Phones for AI

Counterpoint's list of the best-selling smartphones of Q1 2025 reveal something interesting to me: people don't care that Apple is losing the AI race.

Please, please don't buy an 'AI-optimized' screen protector or phone case

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Call me a Luddite, but my eyes glaze over when a product claims it has an “AI-optimized” design. Whether it’s marketing oversaturation or a growing existential dread as AI threatens to take over both my career and my hobbies, the phrase goes into one ear and out the other as just another buzzword, even though AI is changing the world as I write this. This came back to mind recently after a viral Reddit…

Apple appears ready to flex its AI model muscles

Since Apple Intelligence launched last fall, the company's AI efforts have mostly amounted to a string of setbacks. The biggest one? The full suite of Apple Intelligence features still hasn't rolled out and likely won't for another nine months," Gene Munster writes for Deepwater Asset Management. "That puts it about a year behind schedule, a kind of delay I haven't seen in all my years following Apple.' Gene Munster for Deepwater Asset Managemen…

Apple appears ready to flex its AI model muscles - MacDailyNews - WiredFocus

Since Apple Intelligence launched last fall, the company’s AI efforts have mostly amounted to a string of setbacks. The biggest one? The full suite of Apple Intelligence features still hasn’t rolled out and likely won’t for another nine months,” Gene Munster writes for Deepwater Asset Management. “That puts it about a year behind schedule, a kind of delay I haven’t seen in all my years following Apple.’ Gene Munster for Deepwater Asset Managemen…