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by verticalscaler 731 days ago
It is almost like they only came out with this to appease wall street.

I'll just remind you about one of the features: You heard of Memojis, now you have Genmoji!

Generating a squirrel on a jetski emoji on the fly will save you loads of time and make your life better. There aren't enough stickers in your chat app.

Pick from three googley eyed cartoon styles to show off your unique personalities and creativity.

They all look like Pixar and smarmy Dreamworks face nightmare fuel memes from over a decade ago (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamWorksFace).

This was an actual part of the demo. I'm not being factitious.

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It is exactly what this is, pleasing the shareholders. From Tim Cook himself: https://youtu.be/pMX2cQdPubk?t=146

> It became clear that people wanted to know our views on generative AI. So we decided to embrace it and call it Apple Intelligence.