Never mind this year's event - it's going to be multiple years before they have something of the quality they 'demoed' last year. They rushed some great concept videos and then thought they could actually build them in less than a year. And sold $1k+ devices based on it. I'd honestly say this is a bigger disaster than Apple Maps. At least in that case they were forced into doing something really big really quick (because Google was crippling the iOS Maps app). In this case Apple didn't need to do any AI. Absolutely nothing they have shipped is useful or innovative. It's one of the rare times they've followed the market instead of waiting to do it right. At the minute, it's not any better than the co-pilot rubbish MS have shoved into Windows.

Edit: I wonder if this will force them back to live events? Live demos are at least more believable and might win them back some trust.