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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.
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I think it's because Apple would have to provide every competitor (including ones running off-device with no confidential compute) with the same level of access Siri AI would get, which poses a lot of security and privacy concerns Apple would never allow third-party developers to get access to even with a TCC consent prompt (like reading and sending iMessages).
Which means Apple would have to give OAI and Anthropic access to Gemini, I mean Siri AI.
App developers can already access the on-device foundational models through an API, but I don't think many developers want to do that because there are better models.
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
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> 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.
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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.
Small talk is all lies. Almost all praise is fake. And it all drives me insane. I can fit in at work just fine, I can appear joyful and excited to come to work, I have 30 years of practice with it. But I avoid it whenever possible because it is all lies.
Americans appear to oversell everything because people get mad if you don’t.
“Why can’t you just be positive?!”
Because I’m not going to lie. I can’t fake praise, and I won’t even try. Being positive while lying is immediately obvious and it undermines the positive attitude that you’ve painted on. If anything, I take a negative message when I see someone faking a positive manner of speech.
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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.
I can understand how it might seem culty, but it's in the service of clear communication to a global audience. Anyone who represents a company to important customers and/or the public goes through similar media training.
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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
Not to spoil the magic but the plan B dialog was somewhat rehearsed too. Award for the best recovery lines goes to James Dempsey and the "I Love (NS)View" song. "I, uh, forgot to mention up front that this song is a beta version. It's feature complete, mind you, but I won't have the words memorized until October..."
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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.
A few of the keynote people kinda forgot how to walk normally on camera. It happens to me.
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I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac. You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.
The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri. Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor excuse for a window with: - no Cmd+Tab, no Cmd+` - no minimize?? - generally no presence in the Dock whatsoever - no keyboard shortcuts beyond basic text editing ones - no smart window resize - … So in other words, no Justin, that’s not a wind…