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Big Technology Podcast

What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6395 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass. He joins Big Technology to discuss Apple’s subdued WWDC and whether it signals deeper trouble with AI's capabilities. Tune in to hear a breakdown of Apple’s “UI over AI” approach, whether the company can pull off the Apple Intelligence vision at all, and if Liquid Glass is a redesign destined to fail. We also cover the vibes at the conference and the state of Apple today. Hit play for clear-eyed, no-nonsense analysis of the tech world’s biggest stories. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0

Are Apple's AI failures happening in a vacuum? Or are they a damning sign of the limitations of AI itself?

0:07.8

Yes, we're going there. Plus, plenty more observations from WWDC. That's coming up right after this.

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1:02.4

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced conversation of the tech

1:07.8

world and beyond. Let's break down what happened at Apple's big developer event this week

1:12.6

and look at whether the company's AI limitations say something worrying about AI itself.

1:18.6

We're joined today once again by the great M.G. Siegler, author of SpyGlass, which you can find at Spyglass.

1:24.6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . welcome back.

1:26.6

Thanks so much for having me on, Alex.

1:28.7

All right, let's just get quickly to the event itself.

1:31.6

I'm just going to go read the last line of your post to begin with

1:34.5

because I want to get your reaction as to what we saw from Apple

1:37.7

because they did have their big annual developer event this year,

1:42.1

introduced a new user interface, said shockingly little about

1:47.6

AI. I think you said that they said more about the phone app than they did about Apple Intelligence.

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