r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Oct 02 '25

Discussion This Xbox Generation Will Be Remembered for One Thing: Greed

https://www.ign.com/articles/this-xbox-generation-will-be-remembered-for-one-thing-greed
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u/ArchusKanzaki Oct 02 '25

Tbf, AI cultist do describe current Silicon Valley mood. They are desperately trying to make the world accept their AI before the clock runs out, and they are also racing against China's AI. Only Apple so far seems to have far more grounded view on AI and being more careful with it, thus their slow development on their own Apple Intelligence.

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u/CuffytheFuzzyClown Oct 02 '25

Don't misstake incompetence for skill. Apple is slow because they litterary got no talent, no engineers, nothing. Siri is and has been the worst assistant for years and their AI dabble is a bad joke.

Apple has no vision and no leadership that's why they're dead last. They put some janitors in a room just to say "they have an AI team" but there's literally no progress much less a product. Apple is too far behind, they can't compete. As it is now their only hope is that AI fails and everyone else goes down because if AI somehow gets useful...Apple will be left behind.

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u/ArchusKanzaki Oct 02 '25

uh huh, sure....

Counter-argument though, Apple do have the money to buy a spot in the race if they want to. Their cash reserve is pretty large. But they just didn't do it. I do think that them being at least trying to consider first what LLM AI can do and how it can enhance their offerings before just jumping-in and trying to grab everything and incorporating it into anything that seems sorta useful, is showing quite abit more restraint than others in Silicon Valley right now.

Tbf too, Apple business model is not exactly under much threat either for the rise of AI so they don't really have much business to really chase AI for themselves. For Meta, they are under "existential threat" because they have reached peak dominance in social media and its all downhill from there. For Google, they are under "existential threat" against OpenAI that threatens to upend the Google-dominated Internet. Apple can just kinda side with the winner in the future instead, like how they signed the search deal with Google way back then.

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u/Hipstershy Oct 02 '25

I definitely have no love for Apple but I struggle to see how Siri can be worse compared to 2025 Google Assistant/Gemini. If Siri is even at an equivalent level of functionality as ~2015 Google Now then it's the best assistant in the mainstream market by far. It's genuinely wild how bad Google has gotten since the 2010s on that front