Apple unveils new accessibility features

Post by bayindirh » Tue, May 19, 2026, 7:34 PM UTC

gnatolf wrote: post #240

JeremyHerrman wrote: post #168

Apple 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 a…

'liquid metal' sounds cool. It's probably a metallic glass. I super dislike that it seemingly will be synonymous with the brand name by Apple even though that stuff has been around for decades. Not that there are particularly many places where this is used - mostly because it really is just very expensive. In the awesome position that Apple is in, economic feasibility is so much easier to achieve, with like tens of m…

Post by Melatonic » Tue, May 19, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

bayindirh wrote: post #271

Melatonic wrote: post #265

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Was "LiquidMetal" anything more than a good aluminum alloy ?

Yes. I have a Sandisk Titanium flash drive which is the first practical application of the alloy, shortly before Apple snapped it. It's feels solid, not wearing down and pretty robust for what it is. It doesn't get scratches like aluminum alloys. It's entirely something else.

Post by s0rce » Tue, May 19, 2026, 7:36 PM UTC

bayindirh wrote: post #272

gnatolf wrote: post #240

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'liquid metal' sounds cool. It's probably a metallic glass. I super dislike that it seemingly will be synonymous with the brand name by Apple even though that stuff has been around for decades. Not that there are particularly many places where this is used - mostly because it really is just very expensive. In the awesome position that Apple is in, economic feasibility is so much easier to achieve, with like tens of m…

It's not metallic glass. It's an injectable , super strong alloy. You can manufacture things like you're using injection molded plastic. To be honest, British also has an injectable stainless steel, but its application domain is much more different.

Post by gabeio » Tue, May 19, 2026, 7:41 PM UTC

hedora wrote: post #178

postalcoder wrote: post #64

One 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…

Until siri can reliably handle "Navigate to ", offline and using pre-downloaded maps, I'm going to assume all the other, harder speech to text and conversational stuff is just vaporware. I found another dreadful iPhone input "feature" yesterday. If you are browsing around in third party carplay apps, and ready to tap your selection, but instead press the accelerator first, it truncates the list to only a few items, a…

Post by bayindirh » Tue, May 19, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #274

bayindirh wrote: post #271

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Yes. I have a Sandisk Titanium flash drive which is the first practical application of the alloy, shortly before Apple snapped it. It's feels solid, not wearing down and pretty robust for what it is. It doesn't get scratches like aluminum alloys. It's entirely something else.

So it's Titanium? That's cool - what's the name of the flash drive and or do you have more info ? Always loved titanium stuff