The personal context issue could have been solved long before LLMs appeared. My foil for this has always been the simple request from Siri: "Take me home". Apple and my device know where I live. I have even registered "home" in Apple maps. This is not a huge leap, and this is not even something that requires an LLM. But it does force the featureset and capability to be better. This was a problem in 2015. 10 years lat…
On a related note, I don’t know how Apple has managed to mess up so badly the idea of storing your own information like address, phone number, etc. Every time I’ve moved, for months afterwards I keep having to fix my address when using Apple Pay or setting directions to home, etc. because it seems like they keep multiple copies of that information all over the place, instead of referring to a single piece of informat…
They’ll have lost shipping and billing address and I have to laboriously type it in again before I can pay for it.
Sometimes I will have purchased from them, the very prior week, sending to the same address they now lost.
How a trillion dollar company cannot figure out the most basic functionality of an online shop I don’t know.