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Re: Siri AI

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Post by avazhi »

nafizh wrote: post #20

They should have changed the name as per branding. I hear Siri, I subconsciously associate it with really bad software.

I hear Apple and I associate with it with laughable AI integration, an unserious UI, and buggy software.

Apple’s entire software stack has a branding problem.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by russellbeattie »

Ecstatify wrote: post #155
jesse_dot_id wrote: post #152

I didn't really see anything that knocked my socks off. Mostly, it's the promise that Siri now works in the way in which they said it would work a few years ago, when it didn't. I do like the addition of Siri in the context menu, though. I can see that being useful.

It’s the same broken promise every year. All I want is for Siri to set an alarm and open my blinds. That’s enough for me. Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into Siri over the years.

All I want is for iPhones to have physical keyboards. That's enough for me. Makes you wonder how much money Apple has poured into touch screens over the years.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by Danox »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #211
fckgw wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could just not use it.

Oh I’m definitely not going to use it. But apple tends to try to put these things in your face and get you to use them (seen all those purple buttons in Pages lately?). A global “just don’t show me or try to get me to use this crap at all” switch would be very welcome. Bonus if it also frees up however many GB of space this garbage will take whether I use it or not.

You don’t know what’s in your face until you use Copilot.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

matthewfcarlson wrote: post #143
koalalorenzo wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, I am kinda disappointed by how much AI there is in this update, I was hoping for something different and exciting.

I think it's important to note what they didn't talk about. They briefly scrolled a long list of performance improvements and mentioned a few. Personally, I am very hopeful that the fact that they only talked about these high level AI features means the other engineers got to spend time focusing on performance and quality.

Fixing the shit show that iOS 26 is and making it so my shiny new iPhone 17 doesn’t visibly struggle rendering simple ui elements should be considered table stakes for iOS 27, I wouldn’t expect them to mention that too much as it’s like the bare minimum we expect for the update.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by wmf »

Velocifyer wrote: post #163
himata4113 wrote: post #154

I read through the entire DMA rant that apple has here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de... This feels like it could be solved with a list of permissions that the user has to turn on when using 3rd party AI. Apple already: 1) requires developers to submit ID to publish an app on the appstore (at least I had to after ~1000 downloads to be able to publish an update) 2) has strong kernel enfo…

> "requires developers to submit ID to publish an app on the appstore (at least I had to after ~1000 downloads to be able to publish an update)" What is the purpose of that?

So there's someone to sue if the app misbehaves.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by WorldPeas »

I wonder if Apple actually posttrained or at least finetuned this model or if it's just standard gemma. I feel it'd be bad practice if they didn't at least have some training atop it for apple's tools. Also you don't really hear much about apple's in-housed private compute servers anymore, did they get outmoded? I only hear about them using nvidia now.

Re: Siri AI

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Post by Danox »

testfrequency wrote: post #63
minimaxir wrote: post #8

I wonder how much of Siri AI is Apple-developed and how much of it is Google-developed as a result of Gemini. The a) search demos and b) image generation demos seem unlikely to have been done by Apple alone, the demos being closer to Google Search and Nano Banana respectively.

There was not a single thing they launched that I have not seen Gemini already showcase capability or existing feature wise

The only thing you saw was phoning home, that’s what’s gonna be interesting when Apple releases their version. Is it phoning home 100% of the time or can you turn off the Internet and have it perform in the same way, there will be plenty of YouTubers that will give it the test a test I might add that they haven’t done up until this point for anything that Google has put out?
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