Apple introduced iOS 18 to us at WWDC in June and will definitely release it officially in September. The problem is that this system won’t have the biggest appeal in the form of artificial intelligence. And it looks like even Google’s Android 15 might not keep up.
We expected a lot from iOS 18 in terms of redesign and AI. The former will come with the sharp release of the system in September, but we’ll have to wait for the latter. iOS 18, which iPhone 16 will also include by default, will not include these features Apple Intelligence simply because the company didn’t have time to debug them properly.
So if Apple’s AI is supposed to be the main selling point of the new product, this is a significant problem. Apple is thus the first example of software development becoming more annoying than hardware development.
Samsung and Google
The second example is Samsung. It was supposed to release a beta version of its One UI 7 superstructure on Android 15 this week, but that didn’t happen. The company has delayed the release to the third week of August, as it doesn’t even have time to distribute the sharp One UI 6.1. 1 superstructure.
But that’s perhaps the least of the problems here, as One UI 7 isn’t tied to the release of new hardware. The One UI 6.1. 1 superstructure was first introduced to jigsaw puzzles in mid-July, though, and should also reach the company’s older flexible devices, tablets, and the Galaxy S series.
And thirdly, there is Google. He is currently preparing Android 15, but he has cut a bit of a branch under himself. In recent years he has presented the new Pixels in October, but this year he is doing it on August 13th. And with the new Pixels of course came the new Android, so this year it should be Android 15. But by moving the deadline, Google lost two months of testing.
Current news so they say that it is very possible that the Pixel 9 will come out with Android 14 and then get Android 15 as an update later. Basically it would be the same scenario as with iOS 18 and with iOS 18.1.
So it seems that companies have no problem developing and releasing new hardware, but with tuning their system to it. Google can take ugly revenge because it wants to catch up with the iPhone 9 with the Pixel 16.