A number of people have been complaining that the new Siri demos during the keynote videos were a little on the slow side. There were notable lags of several seconds between Siri requests and the task being carried out. But while the ideal we’re aiming for is for AI tasks to be carried out as quickly as possible, what we saw is kind of good news … Apple was roundly criticised back in 2024 for using concept videos of features it was unable to demo. What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. That criticism was deserved, and Apple admitted that things were going to take longer than expected, deleted the offending video , and settled a $250M false advertising lawsuit . The company seems to have learned its lesson. While the keynote wasn’t live, it does appear that all of the video demonstrations were conducted in real time, as TechCrunch noted .…