Almost 75% of Apple User’s have Had NO USE for its AI Updates…..

Count this dog among them…..

A survey last year provided the 73% NO use….

A former Apple boss now admits it’s AI efforts are underwhelming and not in use by the vast majority of its products owners….

ChatCPT maybe doing alright with some…

But it seems AI in General is NOT turning out to be want the media sold it to be among the public….

 

Former Apple CEO John Sculley said tech companies making great strides in AI have upset the apple cart for the Cupertino, Calif.–based giant.

Speaking to Fortune’s Diane Brady at the Zeta Live conference in New York on Thursday, he warned Apple was facing its “first real competitor” in “many decades” in OpenAI.

“AI has not been a particular strength for them,” Sculley said of Apple..

Wall Street has mounted pressure on Apple as it struggles to make the same inroads in AI as its Magnificent Seven and private company counterparts. Over the past decade, Apple appeared to make savvy moves in building momentum in AI, launching Siri in 2011 and poaching John Giannandreafrom Google in 2018 to be its head of AI.

But the company was caught flat-footed after OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in 2022, and when it finally announced its “Apple Intelligence” AI strategy in June 2024, results fell short. Apple said in June it was delaying its AI upgrades to Siri until 2026, and Giannandrea was sidelined from the project. The company was even considering using Anthropic’s or OpenAI’s AI technology to power Siri over its own in-house models, Bloomberg reported in June.

Even its most recent blowout earnings failed to assuage investors of concerns around not only AI adoption, but also the impact of higher tariffs costing the company $800 million in the previous quarter.

For his part, Cook told investors on Apple’s most recent earnings call that the company is taking steps to both restructure staff internally and acquire other companies to catch up in the AI race.

“We have a great team, and we’re putting all of our energy behind it,” he said.

Meanwhile, Apple stock is down about 1% so far this year, while AI chip leader Nvidia is up nearly 40%, and AI hyperscaler Microsoft, which is also a top OpenAI investor, is up 22%. ….

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