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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by dmd »

chasd00 wrote: post #86
ACCount37 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'm pretty confident it's Gemini behind the curtain for Siri.

I mean, they said it was.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by xnx »

WoodenChair wrote: post #25

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.

> Apple very rarely admits mistakes.

Probably the best reversion was getting rid of the butterfly keyboard and bringing back ports after Jony Ive was gone.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by Cider9986 »

earthnail wrote: post #221
jontro wrote: post #162

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Unfortunatley not https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...

Any workarounds like VPN?

Theoretically you could use a router-level VPN for initial setup and that would work. Because VPNs are not functional for Apple services on Apple devices. Apple services bypass the VPN and reveal your real IP address, or in the case of trying to get different features, reveal your location to Apple.

Even if they were functional you still would want to use a router-level VPN because you couldn't install a VPN before your device connected to the internet.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by avarun »

badc0ffee wrote: post #198
philistine wrote: post #26

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People talk about Liquid Glass as if it equal on all fronts. It's absolutely not. Apple knows which way their bread is buttered, that they can't mess up the iPhone. So Liquid Glass is fine on iOS. It's on Mac that it's a garbage fire of ridiculous design decisions. Still the best OS around, but it looks like it was made by idiots.

IMO it's not fine on iOS. It has the same visual busyness as on macOS.

Agreed, but seems like we're the odd ones out. I keep hearing how Liquid Glass is ok on iOS and terrible on macOS, but I actually think it's (slightly) better on macOS than on iOS.

At least macOS has configurability to turn off all the transparency. iOS just looks bad no matter how you configure it right now.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by cassianoleal »

Freedom2 wrote: post #243
theshrike79 wrote: post #137

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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?

As a Brazilian, I also find that annoying and unnatural.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by thewebguyd »

PedroBatista wrote: post #147

That AI segment was a boomer core slop fest. But to be fair, it's clear that Apple is not on the AI bleeding edge and it appears it doesn't want to be, it cannot afford to ignore it tho. Let's hope they don't get overconfident with Gemini and pull a MS Copilot..

> it appears it doesn't want to be

I get this vibe too. Turning Siri into yet another chatbot is a far cry from the vaporware they showed at 2024's WWDC. Seems they found out LLMs can't actually do that, but investors aren't just going to let them ignore it unfortunately.

Feels like they are just phoning it in here and waiting on AI hype bubble to burst. "Here's your stupid chatbot, now shut up"

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by tpdly »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #199
kettlez wrote: post #127

"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.

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. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...

Apple would have to allow USERS the possibility of giving any virtual assistant direct access to their own private data.

Is that accurate?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by dmitrygr »

WoodenChair wrote: post #25

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.

At least, unlike microslop, they ARE fixing things based on user feedback.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by avarun »

thewebguyd wrote: post #242

In 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

Wait what? Where did you see this? It would be crazy if the Series 9 doesn't get updated to the next watchOS

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by atestu »

amrrs wrote: post #38

Siri AI - looks like finally Siri is getting its due update, hopefully they ship it soon!

From Apple's website:

> iOS 27 coming this fall.

> Siri Al coming in English later this year.

So they're already admitting it won't be here in time for iOS 27.

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