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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by pants2 »

asaddhamani wrote: post #169
Someone1234 wrote: post #17

I've been using it for several months since the developer beta came out; overall I'm extremely positive on it. One of their better releases that seemingly focused more on quality and refinements than new-features. Siri is definitely worth using now, even if it remains still a work-in-progress/needs continued refinement. It can surprise you in good ways, but it isn't consistently good yet. The keyboard remains unfixed…

In my experience new Siri has been better only marginally. Still tons of I didn’t understand the query responses

In my experience the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond. It asks for obnoxious classifications. It doesn't know that when I say "call Mike" I mean the Mike I call every day vs the other Mike in my contact I have never called in my life. It defaults back to Apple products for everything, old Siri knew I liked Spotify but now if I ask it to play a song it will complain about my Apple Music subscription. I could go on.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by serbuvlad »

bigyabai wrote: post #449
al_borland wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve heard this kind of thing about Apple fairly regularly (the iTunes Remote app comes to mind). While there are issues to large teams, I feel like there is a middle ground that doesn’t result in a single point of failure. What happens when Jim wins the lottery? It seems like Apple could very easily turn the AppleTV into a proper game console, but not with only one person on it. I guess it’s still just a “hobby” for…

> It seems like Apple could very easily turn the AppleTV into a proper game console Apple could turn the Mac, iPad or Vision Pro into a proper gaming console, too. It's just not something they are willing to do, no matter how well-positioned they are for it.

I think this is honestly correct strategy.

Gaming is a license game, not a hardware game.

Apple wants you to buy your games through the App Store, so they can take the 30%, which means competing with Steam. Which means getting licensed games on the App Store.

Apple already fought one such license war over music and won. They're currently doing Apple TV as well.

However, for the gaming industry they're complete strangers. Unlike music (which is mostly made on Mac) and TV/Movies (which are often made on Mac, at least partly), gamedev is very much Windows focused.

Pushing for ports and licenses is an uphill battle, and probably not one Apple wants to take on. They have plenty of other profitable ventures.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by anhner »

NoPicklez wrote: post #558
hahamaster wrote: post #410

Siri AI feels like a beta version (I think it officially is?). It’s unaware indexing isn’t done yet so it just tells me “I can’t find any photos of Italy” although there’s many thousands. Then it tells me how to let it access my photos using nonexistent iOS settings, even though permissions aren’t the problem. Amateurish.

Why don't you therefore just wait until indexing is done?

Ah yes, the pleasures of paying $1000+ dollars for a phone whose developers can't even bother to add an `if (!indexingDone)`.

I'll answer your question though: because it doesn't show anywhere the progress of the indexing.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by manmal »

spullara wrote: post #380
j1mr10rd4n wrote: post #374

From the macOS 27 release notes in the System Settings app: System Improvements Discover lots of little ways your Mac is even enjoyable, like faster and smoother experiences across the systems. Doesn't anybody proofread copy anymore? /end-rant

proof of not ai

Have the really good copywriters left the profession already?

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by fodkodrasz »

Synthetic7346 wrote: post #286
bigyabai wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...relative to what, Windows 11?

I find Win 11 UI better than Liquid Glass, if not by much

Its advantage is diminishing, as for some reason MS thinks it is a good idea to copy every bad design pattern from Mac...

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

usui wrote: post #504

This is going to sound like a really weird and irrelevant nitpick, but I dislike how they changed the version numbers to be year+1. I like that they all unified and have a relationship to the current year, but we're not buying cars. We're getting operating systems and not being confused about chronology is pretty important for bug tracking or other minutiae. Plus, the Mac lineup use(d) the year of release. Why move a…

I think it’s because Apples fiscal year does start in October, so iOS 27 is basically released when Apple does start their fiscal year 2027.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by fodkodrasz »

VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #485
sbinnee wrote: post #361

> available on iPhone Duo, iPhone Air, iPhone 16 models or later, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max Such a high bar for iOS. Unfortunately new Siri is not for me.

That’s not correct. It reaches back to the 12. They might be referring to the Apple Intelligence features in particular.

If I will be able to voice-dial my contact by its name again (used to work few years ago), instead Siri calling some random internet search hit who has the same surname, it is already a win...

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by almyk »

ksec wrote: post #41

People who are still on Chrome as main browser should seriously try Safari 27. Compatibility greatly improved, super speedy. Although for some reason the AI organise tab option is not showing up on me.

if the "back" functionality is still laggy and not instant I won't change from firefox to safari.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by fodkodrasz »

snazz wrote: post #452
maelito wrote: post #175

How depressing this first demo video about mum, grandma and the fruits. These are basic things of our lives that make us humans : caring about others, remembering what they say, knowing how to recognize a fruit, enjoying colors of the fruits with your eyes, not through your retina display, thinking about the food recipes that we know. I don't know if this is because I'm european and the gap keeps getting larger acros…

I got the same feeling from the scene about the new Apple Watch features in the media event on Wednesday. Having a device listen to your conversations for you, so that you can avoid the hassle of having to ask someone to repeat themselves when you zone out, seems a little depressing to me. It makes Apple seem a little out of touch as well. (Are AI note taking "pins" and hardware devices really something people want?…

In business it is very useful, especially when you have to do lots of context switches.
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