I jumped on the Apple Intelligence train pretty quickly. I mean, can you blame me? I just wanted to see if Apple had any chance of catching up to Google. It seemed — at least at first — as if Apple was readying its own version of just about everything Gemini could do, too. Apple announced plans for an image generator, photo editing tools, the ability to write and rewrite messages, and more, and it was all coming… eventually.
Well, now it’s been here for about a year, and I’ve been using it nearly the entire time. I’ve tried the whole range of Apple Intelligence features multiple times across several iOS updates, and I’m still underwhelmed. I’ll be sticking with Gemini for the foreseeable future, and here’s why.