The iPhone 16 will ship as a work in progress
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Apple’s all in on AI — at least Apple’s version. “The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said before revealing the iPhone 16. Software chief Craig Fedherighi pitched Apple Intelligence as a “personal intelligence system” that’s at “the heart of the iPhone 16 line-up.” After the event Apple even published a whole press release dedicated to Apple Intelligence.
There’s just one catch: when the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro first come out, they won’t have any Apple Intelligence features.
Sure, the new A18 and A18 Pro chips in the iPhone 16 lineup each have a 16-core Neural Engine that Apple says is “optimized for large generative models,” so they will probably be good at handling…