{"id":227727,"date":"2025-10-16T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227727\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:13:12","slug":"looks-like-apple-cant-quite-figure-out-ai-gadgets-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227727\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Apple Can\u2019t Quite Figure Out AI Gadgets Either"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a bad month for AI gadgets<\/a>, and that\u2019s saying a lot. As if public opinion wasn\u2019t already in the gutter after the collective letdown of Humane<\/a> and its now-defunct Ai Pin, as well as its less expensive counterpart from Rabbit, the R1<\/a>, reports have begun circulating that Sam Altman and Jony Ive, via their joint venture, IO, are also struggling to devise AI hardware<\/a> that, ya know\u2026 works. But the fact that things are bad doesn\u2019t mean they can\u2019t get worse, and if new reports about Apple\u2019s AI efforts are any indication, they just might.<\/p>\n

According to a report from Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman<\/a>, Apple is running into a few hiccups with its rumored robotic smart home hub, and I\u2019ll give you one guess what one of those issues is. Per Bloomberg:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe motor system has had engineering challenges, and the company has sought to find compelling AI uses for the device. That\u2019s pushed out the current timeline to roughly two years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mechanical challenges are one thing (that feels like a technical hurdle that Apple can throw money at and eventually resolve), but the AI part isn\u2019t so simple. Devising useful AI features isn\u2019t just a money or engineering problem; it\u2019s a philosophical one. Before Apple figures out where to put its resources, it has to have a reason to devote those resources. And if the broader field of AI gadgets is any indication, those reasons haven\u2019t been exactly forthcoming.<\/p>\n

While there are plenty of AI features in existence right now (i.e., everything new and Gemini-related on Google\u2019s Pixel devices<\/a>), not many of them have resonated<\/a> with consumers who either don\u2019t know that they exist or haven\u2019t been given a compelling reason to use them. If you can\u2019t convince people to use AI features on a device that they have in their hands almost every second of every day, it\u2019ll be even harder to convince them to use AI features on a device they have almost no frame of reference for, such as, I don\u2019t know, a robotic smart home display.<\/p>\n

\"HumaneThe Ai Pin and Rabbit R1 were not a stellar start to a new wave of AI gadgets. \u00a9 Raymond Wong \/ Gizmodo <\/p>\n

Not to mention, everything is compounded by the next-gen Siri of it all.<\/a> If there\u2019s one place you want a next-gen voice assistant, it\u2019s a smart home hub, but Apple has (somewhat infamously) struggled to deliver its promised chatbot-infused Siri, or at least one that works the way it should. Those struggles, by the way, are still firmly ongoing. And the rest of its Apple Intelligence features, while not quite as damaging to public perception, haven\u2019t exactly blossomed yet, especially notification summaries, which Apple had to put on pause briefly, given the fact they, uh\u2026 were a bit of a disaster.<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe Apple will figure things out. The company doesn\u2019t plan to release its arm-having robot for another two years, according to Bloomberg, and a lot could happen between now and then, but it\u2019s hard to be optimistic with the way things are going. Per the Financial Times, Jony Ive and Sam Altman have struggled with just about every piece of their AI gadget (a palm-sized device that you can bring on the go), including how its voice assistant works and even how to get enough compute to power it via the cloud. Woof.<\/p>\n

Clearly, there\u2019s still a lot of work to be done before AI gadgets can be useful in the way that even the biggest tech companies are still trying to get them to be, but if there\u2019s one company that could figure it out, Apple would be it. And if Apple can\u2019t get the job done? Well, I\u2019ve got bad news for Altman, Ive, and company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a bad month for AI gadgets, and that\u2019s saying a lot. As if public opinion wasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,517,181,507,91599,127371,42511,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-227727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-homepod","13":"tag-humane","14":"tag-siri","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}