Investors are misreading Apple’s latest AI announcement. Apple got it right this time.
Despite lukewarm initial reviews calling Apple’s latest AI announcements uninspired and derivative, the company’s pragmatic approach to enhancing Siri and Apple Intelligence may prove more effective than critics realize. With iPhone sales already surging 23% in the first half of fiscal 2026, Apple’s focus on reliable, privacy-first features—rather than flashy AI “for the sake of AI”—could be exactly what’s needed to sustain momentum and drive the stock higher.
This piece from Barron’s explores why investors may be misreading the reset, arguing that Apple’s measured strategy positions it well for long-term gains.
[I]n his final Worldwide Developers Conference as CEO, Tim Cook was copying what Steve Jobs did when he left the stage in 2011: bequeathing his successor with a basic foundation for the next generation of the “Apple experience.” It isn’t meant to be groundbreaking.
After failing three times to make an Apple cloud service that was up to the company’s standards, Steve Jobs took the stage at the 2011 WWDC for what would be his last keynote address before he died. While announcing iCloud, Jobs joked about the three previous failures: iTools, .Mac, and MobleMe. “Now you might ask, ‘Why should I believe them? They’re the ones that brought me MobileMe,’” he said to raucous laughter and applause.
No one’s laughing anymore. Today, iCloud is the glue for Apple’s ecosystem…
With Monday’s announcement, Cook and team have put Apple Intelligence on the iCloud path. The company is offering a free set of basic services that protect user privacy. It will improve from here.
As we wrote on Tuesday:
“Apple’s iPhone and Mac both show that personalized AI isn’t yet important enough to negatively affect sales – not even close – so Munster is correct that Apple has time, although we’d peg it at about a year, given the rate that AI is improving. Siri AI in beta form is still and that’s more than good enough for now. The beta being used by hundreds of millions of users will provide much opportunity for Apple to fine tune the product. By this time next year, we’ll all be wondering how we ever lived without Siri AI.”
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