One would have hoped that “Apple’s first phone made from the ground up for Apple Intelligence” would offer much more. As it turns out, the 16 won’t even ship with all the features mentioned; they’ll arrive in a separate update.

Is it a failure of imagination or of technology? AI companies are already beginning to reposition their products as yet another enterprise SaaS tool, rather than the “transformative” use cases we heard so much about (it turns out those were mostly just repeating stuff they found on the web). AI models can be extremely valuable in the right place, but that place doesn’t seem to be in your hand.