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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by dybber »

brianmcnulty wrote: post #312
testfrequency wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which means Apple would have to give OAI and Anthropic access to Gemini, I mean Siri AI.

No, it's more that those apps needs to be able to make all of the tool calls Siri AI can make, which would allow third-party developers to collect data they shouldn't have access to. 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.

Apple don’t want you to be able to say “Hi Alexa” or “Ok Google” to your iPhone, and wake it up.

We have all kinds of data access controls, these could probably also be built around Siri and competitors.

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Post by chatmasta »

sixothree wrote: post #266
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.

I really think Mac OS is one of the worst operating systems to begin with. How is liquid glass going to make it worse. I will 100% leave the criticism of liquid glass on Mac OS to others. But Liquid Glass on iOS has been one of my favorite updates. I like the look and feel of it. They made some tangentially related changes that go too far.

Luckily for Apple, their primary competitor has managed to make their OS even worse. Windows becomes more unusable with every update, and on top of that, continues shoving telemetry and advertising into the OS. I installed windows on a laptop as an experiment and was shocked to see ads in the start menu. Who wants that?!

The best OS is probably something between Ubuntu and macOS. But nothing beats macOS on default, works out of the box, secure and usable and integrated with ecosystems of daily life.

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Post by nicebyte »

chris_money202 wrote: post #270

I have to say, I extremely dislike AI processing of photos. The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments. Distorting that with AI and being okay with it is really disappointing.

when you re-crop a photo or use the perspective tool, you are literally distorting the image. not to mention, all of the processing that happens in modern cameras before you even see the image. in the case of a modern smartphone in particular, I think it's fair to say that you never really see the "real" image as captured by the CCD sensor, and even if you did you would not like it anyway.

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Post by pndy »

tapoxi wrote: post #74
antirez wrote: 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.

I really miss, as a late 90's/early 2000's apple fan, seeing Steve come up and joke with the audience then just show off real products or features and why they're cool. They really sterilized this whole thing after he passed. It's as exciting as a Microsoft keynote now. Just watch a normal presentation like Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.3, it's not iPhone level earth shattering but he made it fun.

It's not just Apple, Microsoft but whole corporate world, and hell - even open source projects use same sterilized safe language of "we're so excited" in communication with users, customers. That's the actual reality distortion field.

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Post by thewebguyd »

Caracas288 wrote: post #189
antirez wrote: 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.

It seems very disturbing in the current environment somehow, like nothing bad ever happens in Apple world, when in reality many things are falling apart. For example the part about cameras, where they seem to advertise them not as security products but as a lifestyle aid. The rehearsed marketing is so strong that it comes across in a very perverse way.

> but as a lifestyle aid

Apple is as much an aspirational lifestyle company as they are anything else. That's been their marketing aim for quite a while. It's less about the tech and more of a message of "This is the person/lifestyle you can be if you buy our products"

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by szundi »

robot_jesus wrote: post #174
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.

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.

Snow Leopard was a nothing release basically - but under the hood a lot got fixed and got better for devs

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Post by jimbokun »

joakleaf wrote: post #128
antirez wrote: 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.

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…

They try to imitate Steve's diction and mannerisms, without replicating his ability to concisely focus on the few things he wanted to stick with the audience.

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Post by officeplant »

cdrnsf wrote: post #100

I hope they keep the switch allowing you to disable Apple Intelligence.

This is my biggest concern. I've only stuck with Apple during this AI nonsense era because the parental/screentime controls allow to me completely shut it down, and I've never toggled it on in the Siri/AI options. It took a while but the 7GB they initially stole from me for the AI nonsense I'm not using eventually cleared itself out of storage.

I already have Siri limited to manual activation only. If they force all of this into Siri and I can't prevent AI models from actually installing their gubby hands all over the phone then that's it for me.

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Post by jimbokun »

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?

Beyond just American, they are trying to emulate Jobs style without his genius for presenting in a compelling and attention grabbing way.

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Post by jimbokun »

dijit wrote: post #261
Freedom2 wrote: post #243

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Curious how this trait is American? Is there something about the way Americans speak that is fake?

Yeah, absolutely. At least to my British ears, Americans rarely sound authentic. Its always grandiose statements and elaborate smiles.

Sure but occasionally that attitude leads to men walking on the moon.
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