Anticipation is at fever pitch with respect the iPhone maker's AI roadmap, as WWDC, its annual developer jamboree, gets underway
In the short term, starting with features that might be unveiled at the WWDC today, it’s likely that Apple will match features that Google and Samsung offer on the Korean tech giant’s latest flagship, the Galaxy S24
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Apple iOS developers who aren’t physically present at the in-person event in the US, will likely be glued to their computers today, as the company’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, WWDC, gets underway at 10:30 p.m. India time.
This time, everyone is waiting for one thing: What will Apple unveil about its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) features and longer-term roadmap. The general perception so far has been that Apple lags Google, Microsoft (read Microsoft + OpenAI) and Samsung in its AI features.
With Apple set to unveil updates to its operating system for the iPhone, iOS18, and all its other devices and products, anything short of a full set of new AI-based features will likely disappoint developers as well as industry analysts, not to mention investors.
“Frankly, Siri lags Google Assistant,” Navkendar Singh, associate vice president at IDC India, says, referring to Apple’s Siri voice assistant, adding that an important reason for this is “Apple’s intense privacy focus.”
For example, a few years ago, users saw they could bar apps from tracking their activity via the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature Apple introduced, and one that Meta Platforms, for example, stridently objected to – as it made targeted ads more difficult.