A real snooze fest. I care so little about the AI features. I felt like they introduced the same thing over and over again.
I would be more excited if they said “AI? Yeah, we decided we aren’t interested in doing it anymore.”
Apple WWDC 2026
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#242In case anyone missed it, Apple's dropping support for Watch Series 6/7/8/9 and the Ultra 1 with this release.
The 9 isn't even 3 years old yet until September, absolutely garbage support timeline for a wearable. I have a Series 9, and it's still essentially like new.
edit Seems this was an error on Apple's part, all watches that support 26 should get 27
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Curious how this trait is American? Is there something about the way Americans speak that is fake?
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#244Another bunch of AI startups have been destroyed.
Which ones? Doesn’t sound like they delievered anything really new that wasn’t announce years ago.
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#245Bye Tim, thanks for making tech fun the past 10 years. No new hardware, feels like the party is over. Thanks Altman for the greed.
Has there ever been hardware launched at WWDC? It's a developer conference, not a hardware launch. Hardware is in the fall.
They have on occasion, when it makes sense to unveil OS changes and hardware simultaneously. Apple Vision Pro, move to new architecture, 2019 Mac Pro tower – that sort of thing. Most years they don't announce new hardware, though.
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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…
> they totally sleepwalked through LLM revolution I don't think so, i don't think they want to be in the LLM laboratory business. They just want to leverage the technology to make money not invent it. Hence the reason why they made a deal with Google to license Gemini, let OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out while Apple just keeps making sales. I think they're betting that in the long run LLMs become a commodity more o…
I can't wait for the moment Apple realizes that hardware makers will also get eaten by AI. Who needs a fancy and expensive macbook or iphone when all you'll really need is earbuds with an internet connection to talk to the AI that's hosted wherever, which will do everything you ever want it to just by saying so. No keyboard or screen required to get a result, no real local computing hardware necessary. If the result is visual just tell it to display it on your 65" hi-res television (which Apple doesn't make). Maybe the market for earbuds is going to sustain them in the future?
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#247They 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…
If they would stop all doing the exact same hand pose it might help. Feels like watching a cult. Been this way for years too.
If you didn’t notice it before, you’ll definitely notice it now.
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#248Apple 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.
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.
What they don’t do is open their keynotes with announcements of the tweaks. This isn’t like the other situations.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
A few things: - A lot of people found smart watches to be nerdy, something that only geeks would wear, until Apple made the Apple Watch. Along the same lines, everyone (on tech-oriented social media) thought the AirPods looked stupid and dorky when they were first announced, but now they're ubiquitous. - People find smart glasses from Meta (and previously, Google) creepy, but – and it's anathema to say this around ce…
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