{"id":47106,"date":"2025-03-17T15:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47106"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:25:17","slug":"leaked-apple-siri-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/17\/leaked-apple-siri-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Apple Siri Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Gurman<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>, MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Robby Walker, who serves as a senior director at Apple, delivered the stark comments during an all-hands meeting for the Siri division, saying that the team was facing a bad period. Walker also said that it’s unclear when the enhancements will actually launch, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the gathering was private.<\/p>\n

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But when Apple demonstrated the features at WWDC using a video mock-up, it only had a barely working prototype, Bloomberg has reported.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Walker defended his Siri group, telling them that they should be proud. Employees poured their “hearts and souls into this thing,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Chris Welch<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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He also said it’s not a given that the missing Siri features will make it into iOS 19 this year; that’s the company’s current target, but “doesn’t mean that we’re shipping then,” he told employees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Chance Miller<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As far as accountability is concerned, Walker told staffers that there is “intense personal accountability” shared by John Giannandrea, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, and software boss Craig Federighi. <\/p>

Bloomberg<\/em> reports that Apple “doesn’t plan to immediately fire any top executives over the AI crisis.” It is, however, planning “management adjustments” in response to the problems, including “moving more senior executives under Giannandrea to assist with a turnaround effort.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While it may sound obvious that at least some of the features are now functional within Apple, this was not entirely clear, as the company has not shown any public demos of the features being in a working state. Apple now faces the task of ensuring that the features not only work, but work well, before making them available to customers. Walker reportedly said the features were only working “up to two-thirds to 80% of the time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Two thirds to eighty percent success rate is like half of the Siri feature set tho<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ryan Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n