They don't even necessarily need to clam up in a way that hamstrings developers. If they have enough of a product there that they can call their APIs even halfw

They don't even necessarily need to clam up in a way that hamstrings developers. If they have enough of a product there that they can call their APIs even halfway stable, they're probably going to be able to ship it, even if it's not perfectly on time. That sort of thing they can absolutely talk about at WWDC, give a tentative release date to, and largely retain our trust that it will show up. This isn't that. This aspect of Apple Intelligence has nothing visible. They didn't announce it ahead of time so that developers could start hooking into it; there's still nothing for developers to do here. This was a bad decision, apparently done purely for its short-term marketing potential, and it does, indeed, make me concerned for what's going on inside Apple.