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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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I remember one where there were technical issues so Steve just started telling stories about the old days with Woz... impossible to imagine that from ANY tech company today

The curse of money. The more they have the safer they play it.

Ironically that's often what ends up costing one the most, i feel like

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Are we living the worst times in a while technology wise, this presentation showed nothing useful. Last year at least they showed some interesting features, but as always I don’t use any of them, the only one I wanted in the past few years was to use the iPhone from my mac, but never shipped in EU. And the other feature was universal control that I use every day and works just fine most of the time.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#173

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...

You can disable all that TODAY. Just disable Siri access

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#174

Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.

Yeah. It's clear they've been hearing the complaints. Not just Liquid Glass, but they even talked about the inconsistent menu bar icons and problems with rounded corner radii (among a bunch of improvements). I'm excited that this is basically Snow Leopard part II, for those who remember.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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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.

Except that he validated Trump by giving him gold trinkets and donated $1M to his inauguration.

Cook is an enabler.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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

"Here's what I wish the memory was!"

"But I'll pretend it was a real one for the next 30 years. This, or I'll never look at that 'photo' again."

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Nobody likes this. How did you come up with the idea to claim that was Apple's reasoning?

Seeing people whining and gnashing and bitching, in vein it should be observed, about this sort of nonsense is so uproarious and, quite honestly, pathetic. Like the root post whining that it's too polished. Christ. Get a grip and go touch grass if this is the sort of pathetic nonsense someone actually takes the time to whine about. It's actually funny how every single presentation like this always gets topped by prof…

I think some people mistake "I don't value the human layer of a communication" with "The human layer has no value".

A presentation is a live audio visual medium. If you just want the information as facts with no affect why not read the stats later?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#178

I am so happy that just by setting Siri to an unsupported language I can kill Apple Intelligence across the whole system.

Couldn’t you do this by turning off Siri and Apple Intelligence, two global toggles?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#179

"Siri AI will not be available in E.U. until we figure out privacy" Funny to hear that after they mentioned how seriously they are taking privacy every 37 seconds.

I agree it's a funny look, but my guess is that it comes down to the cross-border data transfers and non-EEA tech providers. So even if Apple has private cloud compute and is using Gemini models, there are probably a lot of legal hoops to jump through and/or European-based data centers to spin up?

do they not have data centers in Europe yet

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#180

"Siri AI will not be available in E.U. until we figure out privacy" Funny to hear that after they mentioned how seriously they are taking privacy every 37 seconds.

This is more likely due to the digital markets act that requires them to open their platform to competitors. hence it only being restricted on phone and iPad.
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