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I don't think so. They did a bunch of extra engineering work to do machine learning on photos in a way that respected people's privacy. iCloud Photo Library has

I don't think so. They did a bunch of extra engineering work to do machine learning on photos in a way that respected people's privacy. iCloud Photo Library has been working great for me, and the photos are encrypted on my devices before they land in iCloud. The current implementation has the drawback that all of my devices need to do the ML work independently as a result, but it still works okay. As a fairly heavy iCloud user, I wouldn't say they "suck" at services. They're not as good as Google at it, to be sure, but most things work pretty well for me.

matwood 8y ago
> As a fairly heavy iCloud user, I wouldn't say they "suck" at services. They're not as good as Google at it, to be sure, but most things work pretty well for me. I would also add that Apple is actively working to close the gap. Look at last years hire of Giannandrea from Google. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/apple-hires-googles-ai-chief.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/apple-hires-goog... According to recent tests, Siri has already improved a lot.