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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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post #143

"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.

Laughed at it, too. It's almost as if they admit the EU privacy legislation enforces ACTUAL privacy.

or could it be the other way around that actual privacy is forbidden in Europe because they want to read your messages

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#202

The new Siri might bring AI to way more people than OpenAI managed to reach with ChatGPT. I wonder what it means to OpenAI‘s planned IPO. Curious to try the beta to see how the new Siri feels.

Not by much. ChatGPT alone is among the most popular apps ever made, and it's available both inside and outside Apple's walled garden. Letting it reach audience in countries where Apple doesn't have much of a foothold. I do wonder if new Siri is any good though. Apple used to be a genuine AI leader, but they totally sleepwalked through LLM revolution, and Siri's response quality was a sad joke for a while now. Did th…

Yea, but if I can get a ChatGPT-like experience from Siri AI for free, why would I pay OpenAI.

Now it remains to be seen if Siri AI will deliver anything close to a ChatGPT-like experience. But if they did, for the consumer segment that isn't using LLMs for agentic work and just ask it questions from time to time, I can't imagine one textarea has engendered some huge amount of brand loyalty over another.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#203

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...

https://xkcd.com/538/

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#204

Siri wakes up on my phone every time they say "hey siri". I thought it was supposed to be bound to my voice. :/

... try being a Canadian with a bit of a hearing deficiency that is always saying our "verbal tic" of: "sorry" just prior to asking people to repeat themselves...

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#205

"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.

Meanwhile most companies and people have a competition in EU to submit all the data to Claude and ChatGPT.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Laughed at it, too. It's almost as if they admit the EU privacy legislation enforces ACTUAL privacy.

or could it be the other way around that actual privacy is forbidden in Europe because they want to read your messages

It's not about how it is but how they made it sound. Let's not get ideological here.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#207

"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.

It’s the DMA regulation that forces Apple to give the same access as they have to other AI chat apps.

Once it leaves the device Apple does not know what those other ai chat apps will do with the gathered data.

> Siri AI is private by design and deeply integrated across Apple’s platforms using on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of iPhone into the cloud. However, under EU regulators’ extreme interpretation of the DMA, Apple would have to give any virtual assistant direct access to users’ private data — and the ability to directly control other installed applications — as soon as Siri AI is made available in the EU, without the essential protections necessary to keep users and their data safe.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They communicate the products and product changes quickly, comprehensively and accurately. This was a change that happened at the beginning of COVID, but it turns out most people liked it so it stuck. Many of us don't want to watch people fumble with presentation problems. We don't want the lead in, setup, filler banter, so on. I'll take this sort of "you spend your time perfecting your presentation instead of wastin…

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

I really like it this way though, specially because of the good production value.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

#209
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.

They are bad actors with a worse script. Just that.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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post #4

Anyone able to restart the stream if you missed the first few minutes or are we living in a world where AI will cure cancer but Apple can't build a "Watch live / Watch from start" button ?

You can't scrub back and forth on the timeline until the live stream is finished.

"It's a feature, not a bug" – Apple
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