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That’s the app. Or vision-impaired, at least.
But in practice it could just be anyone whose outsourcing vision right? It's basically a free manual vision service.
In practice, it's also to help vision impaired people
Apple unveils new accessibility features
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#162These are pretty helpful features for differently abled people. I think it would be really cool if Apple made AI glasses that could communicate with the iPhone thus eliminating the need to point your phone at everything (especially, if you are moving outdoors or in a crowd).
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#163Fun fact: This video was made accessible to sighted people because no blind person would ever listen to voice at that speed. Honestly if you ever observe a blind person using computers you'd impressed how they can listen to audio at unimaginable speeds.
https://youtu.be/wKISPePFrIs?si=ahGfFp0U7-pTU9w6&t=43 my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh (a blind software engineer at Microsoft) giving a talk about Visual Studio. Link is timestamped
Woah, this is really cool to see
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#164These are great improvements, it's good to see Apple investing in improvements like this (especially with the Vision Pro) but I can't help but feel that they utility will remain very low until they make the Vision Pro look significantly less distopian than it does.
The form-factor is a significant issue for real-world usage, and it's kind of unclear if there is a plan for a future product line given its (pretty abysmal) initial receiption.
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#165A lot of us forget it, but things like text to speech, subtitles etc are there for the differently abled Without that, there wouldn’t really be great vlm and conversational models. The AI companies might have paid for the dictation of some videos on their own but voice assistants etc wouldn’t have existed and our ability to have AI that eventually understands the world would be much much harder.
So we're blaming disabled people now.
lol I’m saying working on accessibility features has helped more than those of us that are sighted. Often times for a lot of us, it’s a drag and comes lower on the priority list, but without it AI, llms etc wouldn’t have the ability to programmatically understand the world.
You however…. Maybe need to switch to decaf?
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I think we should reserve judgment until this lands in the hands of the people it helps. My experience is limited to my elderly parents who have trouble seeing. With the text size Apple allows them to set it to, their phones are unreadable. Text runs off the screen in every app, 1st and 3rd party. In their bill example, the user is told to confirm with the provider. Why not offer to call the number on the bill? Inste…
Yeah, I used to use iOS with text one step above the default size, and text was often cut off. I have a problem with astigmatic halation that makes ‘dark mode’ difficult to read. Since iOS 26, multiple aspects of the system have been made dark only, contrary to the system setting. Writing text correctly should be the lowest of low-hanging fruit. I suspect this is more of a flashy ‘AI’ promotion rather than reflective…
I had to set macOS on high contrast to be able to differentiate ui elements at glance. But most electron-based apps do not get the hint or even provide a high contrast theme.
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#167One thing Apple really needs to get right is speech to text transcription. They've nailed accessibility in so many ways and yet it feels like they're a decade behind on properly transcribing voices. At least half a decade. Input on the iPhone is so dreadful nowadays. Their palm rejection is definitely worse than before, so mistyping is more frequent. Their text-correction algorithm for typing is worse than before, an…
There’s so much complaining about their keyboard issues, and it’s really an infuriating part of the iOS experience. The phone being hard to grip/slippery doesn't help, no…
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#168Apple loves to stealth test new tech in full public view by sneaking it into relatively mundane places, so debuting agentic AI via accessibility is very on brand.
A few other examples:
- The Touch Bar was much more than an OLED strip, it was Apple’s first move in the transition to Apple Silicon on macs. The Apple T1 chip in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBooks was the first solely Apple-designed processor to appear in a Mac and took over several responsibilities away from intel chipsets like power management, fans, sleep/wake, access to the camera & mic, and the secure enclave powering touch ID. Then the T2 added encryption of the SSD, audio management, image processing for the camera, and prevented tampering with the boot process
- The iPhone 3G shipped with a Liquidmetal SIM eject tool, which is made from a strong custom metal alloy which is "practically unbendable by hand unless you want to hurt or cut your fingers." Although Apple hasn’t released anything with the alloy since then, now nearly 20 years later Apple is rumored to be using liquid metal in their upcoming foldable iPhone.
- RealityKit had 3D scanning and a lot of other cool AR capabilities for years which didn’t make sense until the Apple Vision Pro was released.
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This is what Apple does best. They treat new industry advancements as technology , not products itself. AI will be a feature to improve the customer experience, not the product itself.
These features have existed on Android devices for years. What Apple does best is marketing. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android... https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/09/talkback-u...
I think the above person was making a commentary about the things Apple chooses not to do. Apple strategy is often to be intentionally last to market, after the dust settles.
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#170This looks like a genuinely useful application of LLMs. I wish more companies focused on how they can help humans instead of replacing us or squeezing us as hard as possible in the name of productivity.
> help humans instead of replacing us or squeezing us as hard as possible in the name of productivity
Increasing their productivity is helping humans.