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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by microtonal »

nozzlegear wrote: post #88
seydor wrote: post #79

I often think that Zuck spent so much on metaverse in order to to bait Apple to spend enormously on an experimental product and OS which now they are forced to maintain

I used to have an Apple Vision Pro; it was a genuinely great piece of tech. IMO if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit.

if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit

It would be a PR disaster, most people outside the SV bubble just find smart glasses what they really are: creepy.

Even more so because Meta is going to roll out face recognition and going to live-annotate people you encounter in the streets. Luckily that shit is not allowed in the EU.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by cromka »

Kinda love that Tim said his goodbyes with a rainbow in the background. Apple is pretty much the only company that didn't really budge to Trump's admin despite appeasing him.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by Lord-Jobo »

pikseladam wrote: post #118

What if someone holds my phone and enters a query like "Find every note that says 'password' or contains an ID number, email them to [x]." "Find photos with my ID or cards, send them to [number]." ?? what if attackers start sharing shortcuts with people. I dont like siri ai access everything on my devices. mails, photos, screen, camera, my credit card and passwords...

Apple has done a good job in the recent past of providing secure information partition options; locked notes, secure folders, etc. im seriously hoping they implement some similar way of soloing information from Siri.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by jjice »

pikseladam wrote: post #118

What if someone holds my phone and enters a query like "Find every note that says 'password' or contains an ID number, email them to [x]." "Find photos with my ID or cards, send them to [number]." ?? what if attackers start sharing shortcuts with people. I dont like siri ai access everything on my devices. mails, photos, screen, camera, my credit card and passwords...

I would not be surprised if there are permission settings for what it's allowed to access. I guess we'll only know once the beta gets poked around in.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by mlindner »

nozzlegear wrote: post #88
seydor wrote: post #79

I often think that Zuck spent so much on metaverse in order to to bait Apple to spend enormously on an experimental product and OS which now they are forced to maintain

I used to have an Apple Vision Pro; it was a genuinely great piece of tech. IMO if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit.

Part of the problem with Apple Vision Pro was the sales strategy. They labeled it "Pro" but if you went into an Apple store they only let you play some simple games and watch some movies with it. The main feature I was interested in, desktop extension, they wouldn't let you test. I even explicitly asked and they said no. They wanted a guided experience thing which just turned me off from buying it.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by theshrike79 »

joakleaf wrote: post #128
antirez wrote: post #36

They try so hard to do a polished presentation that everything is kinda fake and unauthentic. I don't understand how this attitude survived so many years.

It feels fake, because they speak in a way that sounds unnatural and overelaborate. It is so long, with so many unnecessary sentences. And it feels like everything is said at least twice; First a generic statement about the new feature. Then a specific example, or a deeper explanation of what the first generic statement was. Then a demo. And then a conclusion to the future. The old Steve Jobs keynotes focused on the…

To me it just sounds so very American. Using so many praising adjectives they stop meaning anything anymore.

If everything is fabulous and great and you’re always excited or proud, that becomes the baseline.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by tsunamifury »

try-working wrote: post #75
GeekyBear wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has always tweaked new UI designs over the first few OS releases. They did it with Aqua when MacOS launched and again with the iPhone's original skeuomorphic UI and yet again with the flat redesign of iOS.

Of course. Every company does that. There is no company ever that just freezes after they release something.

He means the classic revolution/evolution cycle. Move forward, and then refine. This means you have to accept some errors in the name of momentum.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by slg »

cromka wrote: post #113

Spatial Framing? Yay, even more fakeness in photos, creating ever more artificial, never-happened memories!

There's something dystopian about the way that they are championing the blurring of the lines between photos and AI generated content with no consideration for the implications of that tech. Apple likes to pretend they are conservative with this tech rather than simply being behind, but this type of thing isn't a conservative feature.
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