News WWDC 2025: Did Apple Just Hit Snooze?

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Hey everyone,
So, WWDC 2025 just happened and… did Apple forget to bring anything new? Seriously, this felt like the ultimate gap year. No hardware, no big leaps—just a lot of talk and a shiny new “Liquid Glass” look that honestly screams Windows Vista vibes (and maybe even those old Android skins we all love to hate ).

Apple Intelligence = Still MIA
Remember last year’s hype about Apple Intelligence? Fast-forward and we’re still waiting. The big AI features are delayed (again) to 2026, so if you’re buying a new iPhone or Mac now, you’re basically getting 2-year-old tech. Meanwhile, Google and others are zooming ahead.

Weaponized Research?
Also, is it just me or is Apple now dropping “research” papers left and right to make it look like AI is useless? Feels more like a PR move to distract from the lack of actual features. Kinda sketchy.

Liquid Glass: Déjà Vu?
That new UI? Looks like a remix of Windows Vista’s Aero Glass and some old Android skins. Not sure if it’s fresh or just recycled but it does look horrible. They organized a whole WWDC to showcase an icon pack?

What do you all think?
  • Annoyed that Apple’s AI is still vaporware?
  • Is this the most boring WWDC ever?
  • Anyone else rolling their eyes at “Liquid Glass”?
  • Do you trust Apple’s research push, or is it just smoke and mirrors?
 
The unification of the OSs across all apple devices may look like nothing much, but could proove to be a big leap. Usually software related innovation doesn't carry as much weightage as hardware.
 
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They are just one innovation (by someone else) away from going the way of the IBM - not as bad but something similar.

They are struggling with AI because they painted themselves into a corner with the privacy branding. You can't succeed in AI without high quality data which doesn't come by without breaking some eggs.

Meta could ramp up so fast to be even compared with OpenAI level models is because they have absolutely no qualms about the data aspect.

Only time will tell if they compromise with their privacy branding or find a way to get the high quality data and compute by just throwing a lot of money at it. This is probably also what spooks the investors who bet on Apple to be a big cash cow for a long time without doing much.

And the AI talent is so scarce and already found their homes so being late didn't help here either. Again have to throw some cash here.

But unfortunately there is no charismatic dictator incharge at the top anymore to get his way with the board, investors and employees to use a lot of cash and drastically change a few things and teams. or maybe that is what they are doing! again, only time will tell.
 
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mohamed777 said:
Apple is trying it's hardest to disprove that reasoning models work, just because they can't make a competent one is just hilarious.
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DigitalDude said:
They are just one innovation (by someone else) away from going the way of the IBM - not as bad but something similar.

They are struggling with AI because they painted themselves into a corner with the privacy branding. You can't succeed in AI without high quality data which doesn't come by without breaking some eggs.

Meta could ramp up so fast to be even compared with OpenAI level models is because they have absolutely no qualms about the data aspect.

Only time will tell if they compromise with their privacy branding or find a way to get the high quality data and compute by just throwing a lot of money at it. This is probably also what spooks the investors who bet on Apple to be a big cash cow for a long time without doing much.

And the AI talent is so scarce and already found their homes so being late didn't help here either. Again have to throw some cash here.

But unfortunately there is no charismatic dictator incharge at the top anymore to get his way with the board, investors and employees to use a lot of cash and drastically change a few things and teams. or maybe that is what they are doing! again, only time will tell.
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To be fair, the AI integration in any device hasn't been revolutionary which gives Apple a lot of time to figure something better in terms of integration, since usually that is what they focus on, compared to someone like Samsung that will put multiple competing assistants on the device to be the first.

Microsoft gets a lot of flak for Copilot integration, so user expectations on AI seem to vary wildly.

They really can't skip the training part, so I doubt they wouldn't be breaking copyrights like Google, Meta and Open AI have done to have a decent model in place. The part they will market is the offline, on-device AI for which they need the small models to be good enough.

The biggest failure has been oddly marketing where they prematurely focused on an AI Siri. The market itself has become extremely boring, be it Google or Apple, so customer expectations are no longer that high and people are happy enough to hold on to their devices for longer.
 
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t3chg33k said:
To be fair, the AI integration in any device hasn't been revolutionary which gives Apple a lot of time to figure something better in terms of integration, since usually that is what they focus on, compared to someone like Samsung that will put multiple competing assistants on the device to be the first.

Microsoft gets a lot of flak for Copilot integration, so user expectations on AI seem to vary wildly.

They really can't skip the training part, so I doubt they wouldn't be breaking copyrights like Google, Meta and Open AI have done to have a decent model in place. The part they will market is the offline, on-device AI for which they need the small models to be good enough.

The biggest failure has been oddly marketing where they prematurely focused on an AI Siri. The market itself has become extremely boring, be it Google or Apple, so customer expectations are no longer that high and people are happy enough to hold on to their devices for longer.
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I completely disagree on the revolutionary part, gemini intergration within android and Samsung has been nothing short of amazing. Share my screen and live screen sharing features in Gemini just work, unlike apple's hallucinating mess.
 
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animishticomb said:
You're bang on. Here is the full coverage and details from a reputed ai expert in his podcast

Web Player - Pocket Casts

Listen to your favorite podcasts online, in your browser. Discover the world's most powerful podcast player.
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Thanks, will have a look to get more detailed insights!
 
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t3chg33k said:
To be fair, the AI integration in any device hasn't been revolutionary which gives Apple a lot of time to figure something better in terms of integration, since usually that is what they focus on, compared to someone like Samsung that will put multiple competing assistants on the device to be the first.

Microsoft gets a lot of flak for Copilot integration, so user expectations on AI seem to vary wildly.

They really can't skip the training part, so I doubt they wouldn't be breaking copyrights like Google, Meta and Open AI have done to have a decent model in place. The part they will market is the offline, on-device AI for which they need the small models to be good enough.

The biggest failure has been oddly marketing where they prematurely focused on an AI Siri. The market itself has become extremely boring, be it Google or Apple, so customer expectations are no longer that high and people are happy enough to hold on to their devices for longer.
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Completely disagree. I've been using ai daily on my samsung and copilot at work daily for a year now. Gemini Live and many other competitors are revolutionary. Of course you can live in ignorance like any other thing in life by repeating whatever you want to believe but that doesn't change the world. While you're ignorant just hope that your ignorance doesn't leave you behind in real life outside of your blind apple faith.

Apple users want to believe that ai is useless, they're just ignorant if they believe that.
 
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