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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by [deleted] »

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...

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Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by officeplant »

Apple continues to innovate in new and excited ways, because I never though I would speak the words "I guess I'm sticking with ios26 until the end of security updates."

Unless I can continue to neuter AI, and keep the older siri this is my last iOS.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by thewebguyd »

dmitrygr wrote: post #349
thewebguyd wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So is Microsoft, albeit a bit late to the party. Taskbar now movable, performance improvements hitting insider builds, MS BUILD half about WSL containers, native coreutils, a dev edition of windows using Winget config to strip all the bloat out, all new system dialogs replacing a good chunk of the old Win32 stuff, WinUI reactor, ability to remove AI models & Copilot from the OS, etc. Classic case of the reality disto…

Oh? So I can now disable "AI" and "onedrive" and "microsoft accounts" in windows? COOL! where do i enable that?

You always could disable OneDrive (it's uninstallable), and you could always use a local account on Pro editions of Windows, that's nothing new.

Uninstalling Copilot and the local AI models is whats new on current insider builds.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by leptons »

Cider9986 wrote: post #285
leptons wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

People want to host their own AI and it will become good enough so most will do that instead of paying for a subscription. Voice-only input to a cloud model with just a screen to show you what it's doing sounds like a nightmare. Why not subscribe for the TV hardware as well as the subscription, take it up a notch on the own-nothing.

You are talking about maybe 0.005% of the whole population of the earth when you say the phrase "self hosting".

My wife is part of the other 99% and she's already talking to a chat prompt for 90% of her computing needs. The fancy laptop we bought her a year ago sits collecting dust. She is Apple's target market - not the nerds that get a boner about "self-hosting".

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by jimbokun »

ACCount37 wrote: post #70
earthnail wrote: post #49

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…

> Apple used to be a genuine AI leader

when?

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by isametry »

Coeur wrote: post #320
isametry wrote: post #302

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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…

My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.

You're probably right, just add it to the collection of "not-quite-window floating thingies", accompanied by Quick Notes, Stickies, Special Character Picker, Color Picker, Font Picker…

Sigh, I wish we could stop re-inventing what was already solved 25 years ago.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by dmitrygr »

thewebguyd wrote: post #353
dmitrygr wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh? So I can now disable "AI" and "onedrive" and "microsoft accounts" in windows? COOL! where do i enable that?

You always could disable OneDrive (it's uninstallable), and you could always use a local account on Pro editions of Windows, that's nothing new. Uninstalling Copilot and the local AI models is whats new on current insider builds.

https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+blocks+local+accou...

https://redmondmag.com/articles/2025/10/08/microsoft-ends-lo...

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

mark_undoio wrote: post #262
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?

Speaking as a Brit, our national trait is generally too understate things. So even saying what you mean, directly, comes off as a bit immodest and hyping it up in sales pitches sounds shady. Americans generally say what they mean a bit more, so I think their mid point is just different.

We do say what we mean, it's just either carefully coded in mutual assured understatement, or buried under expletive-laden exaggeration.

Any native knows that "Interesting, but perhaps we should reconsider" means "You're an idiot and I don't understand how you ever learned to breathe."

The pinnacle is "Not bad", which can mean either deep approval or blistering contempt, depending on tone of voice.

It drives foreigners insane. But of course it's not our fault if they never learned English.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by thewebguyd »

dmitrygr wrote: post #357
thewebguyd wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You always could disable OneDrive (it's uninstallable), and you could always use a local account on Pro editions of Windows, that's nothing new. Uninstalling Copilot and the local AI models is whats new on current insider builds.

https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+blocks+local+accou... https://redmondmag.com/articles/2025/10/08/microsoft-ends-lo...

Hmm, funny, because I literally just set up a Win11 PRO machine yesterday, I could still create a local account, no bypass script needed.

Your links only apply to Home editions.

Re: Apple WWDC 2026

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Post by charamis »

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 miss the live presentations actually, from the pre covid era
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