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>These efforts can involve hundreds to thousands of people for multiple years. And yet Apple had no major issues complying to the draconical demands of the CCP
by joe_mamba 5mo ago
>These efforts can involve hundreds to thousands of people for multiple years.
And yet Apple had no major issues complying to the draconical demands of the CCP to sell and operate there. Weird.
Also, it's not like Apple can't afford the manpower for this. They're not a hole in the wall mon & pop shop.
- wmf 5mo agoThe new Siri isn't available in China yet either.
- ErneX 5mo agoOr really anywhere, since it comes out in Fall. Unless you count developer betas as available of course.
- MBCook 5mo agoIt’s also only in English initially. They can only do so much at once. And Apple is not a “hire an extra 30,000 people“ kind of company. Apple usually rolls stuff out in stages. This is just an extremely high profile example.
- krzyk 5mo agoHas anyone seen a recent LLM release that supports just one language?
- MBCook 5mo agoApple Intelligence supports a number of languages. They showed them on a slide in the keynote. The new Siri is limited at the moment.
- krzyk 5mo agoold Siri was always limited in that regard. And Apple Intelligence supports just a fraction of languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese, and Korean. Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish have quite small populations compared Poland, while I don't see Polish there (37M). I also don't see Romanian, it is slightly bigger amount of people than Netherlands, and the rest from that list are ~< 10M. Oh, well, at least I don't see Russian in that list. With ChatGPT, or Claude.ai (or Deepseek, or local models) I can speak with languages that are outside of (traditionally) limited set of Apple. Because it all depends on what is on the web and web has magnitude larger set of languages compared to what Apple provides.