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Apple Acquisition Hints at Upgraded Calendar App on iOS 19 or Beyond
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Apple does not understand that improving something to make it better to use is often the opposite of adding new "features"
But somehow ai can make a good enough conversation partner to change peoples' minds (the recent Reddit fiasco )The problem is English is such an imprecise language. There are too many assumptions that comes naturally to us, but a machine lack human intuition. It's the old man goes shopping joke.
So it's going to another You're holding it wrong fiasco.😓😓😓 "You're asking Siri wrong."
Well, anything would be better than the boring ticket tape calendar we have now…🙄
Yeah I've noticed that. Most of the new features I've been excited about recently are toggles to turn off new features that were no good.
Acquiring a worthy competitor means you no longer have them to compete against.
Narrator: “but apple would screw it up. Because they couldn’t help themselves.”
The fact that Apple thought the new photos app was better is beyond me. It’s only better in a tech demo because it might look fancy on screen with very specific photos curated for the demo. This tells me they will absolutely be laying some absolute turds for us in WWDC. I’m just curious which app is going to be hit with the poop stick this time. I’m going to guess the camera app. They’re going to make it look like the awful version they designed for Vision Pro.
At least the safari team has been solid. I do actually like safari better than most other browsers. I just don’t love that I can’t pop into a browser with a different engine in the few areas where WebKit doesn’t work.
It's what I call the turd curve. Once your product is done, you ruin it by changing it and pissing off all your customers.
I mostly use Safari. If it doesn't work somewhere it's because the end company doesn't give a crap about testing against it so I'm not sure I want to deal with them.
Maaaan Apple really needs some Wins this year. They’ve been taking hits left and right. I think what’s messing them up is their panic to rush to AI. They don’t need to do that. Just talk about how you’re the best platform for it from Macs with unified memory to iPhones with fast apple silicon NPUs then refine things and work on the ways to integrate AI that make sense. Not smear AI garbage all over everything in a panic. No one is in that much of a rush for Apple to have their own AI and frankly my iPhone is just as good at AI as my android if not better. I really like what they did with chatgpt integration to improve anonymity, give you access, while separating it from the OS. Googles “ai at the core” of android stuff makes me not want to be in a room with an android device.
Oh my. You just reminded me how bad contacts both the app and the integration in the phone app are. Honestly the first time I switched to iPhone one of the reasons I left a year later was I hated absolutely hated how contacts works and it’s if anything it is worse now. I work around it using Siri, shortcuts, and not talking to as many people 🤣. When the solution to something on iPhone is to use Siri, your app sucks.
Oh don't even get me started on that. This whole AI thing is a disaster.
Very few "AI" applications have an actual ROI so far and the thing that is driving it is FOMO (fear of missing out that is) because the top driver is having an "AI proposition". Even the company I work for which has no rational application for it is all over it.
Add to that there is a lot of confusion across the market about what AI even means so you can get away with various twisting of definitions. Apple got pulled into this because they were being compared in the tech press to companies that don't even have a product or any revenue model at all and are propped up by hope and unicorn excrement. That isn't Apple's way of doing business; bar the odd leak the first thing you hear about a product is when it hits the shelves. Unfortunately they bent and went all in with the hype and promise marketing. And much like all the other companies on the market, it's not reaching a place where it is considered mature or reliable or even interesting or acceptable (as you note) by the average user.
Really most people (note I am considering the 99% of people who aren't technology enthusiasts) will only use LLMs it if they don't have to pay for them.
Thus it's a death march. In my professional area, all the institutional investors have already pulled out and it's mostly propped up by bagholders. Models will stagnate at some point in 2025/2026 and it'll collapse in a heap.
That's where Apple will win. They know what they are doing and have everything in house. They'll scoop up the few good things that fell out of this cycle and use it. I suspect that won't be a lot of the fanciful promised Apple Intelligence stuff though. Google will let it rot when the next thing comes along and Apple will be on top of the market with a mature but limited solution.
Apple should get rid of the Reminder app and put most of its features into the Calendar app. Both apps are not needed. The Calendar app can easily handle both tasks were the right devs in charge of it. There are plenty of third part task apps with pro features should users need more power. This should be streamlined down to a single app that works well.
This I disagree with. They are two completely different logical domains.
A shopping list has no temporal component. An event has no ordinal component.
The fact that some things in one have a date doesn't make them the same.
The number of people who use the Reminders app to write shopping lists is I would bet not many. Besides, this is where designers and devs come in... to solve this dilemma. I personally want just a single app for this and bet if they put their heads together this is easily solved.
“15 min before travel time” adds that time to however long the travel time is to get to said event. So if the event is at 17:30, and it’s a 20 min ride, then you need to leave no later than 17:10 (duh) for the door-to-door arrival, and the “15 min before travel” alert will notify you at 16:55 to do your pre-departure systems check (phone, wallet, keys, water bottle, hat, shoes, snack, wrangle a kid maybe…).
You don’t get the “..before travel” options until you turn on and set a travel time (and set a starting location). “Based on location” has been the best for me, but if you KNOW you’re gonna be at Jimmy’s party 16:30-ish, then you can manually set your starting location to be the party’s location, and Travel Time will account for that.
Hope that helps!
And yes, I agree, lack of general documentation for these tricks is frustrating. iOS has a TON of hidden efficiencies and tricks that never see light of day or common knowledge. Heck, I bet no single person could discover and document them all. Maybe a group of folks with inside knowledge could. 😉. But then they change it later for whatever dumb reasons..
I do.
Make a reminder list named “Grocery”.
Then snake a wish and sacrifice a goat for favor from the deities, and say “hey siri, add eggs, cheese, coffee, onions, garlic, and oatmeal to my grocery list.” If the gods accept your offering, then Siri will add each of those items to the list, and as separate entries! You gotta put a small half-second pause between saying each item tho, or else you’re getting one long entry item. (The gods are not THAT generous).
Literally every single person I know uses it for a shopping list and nothing else.
I use it for light project / academic / personal task management and managing disposals as well as a shopping list. I have a few tasks, last cleaned out in Jan...
I might be a fairly authoritative power user on that front 🤔
Don’t care about the AI crap, but need a large calendar widget that looks polished and not messy
This is the first time I've heard this sentiment. It's one of the most highly regarded applications available on mac. Only time I've ever seen them take heat was when they went to a subscription model.
But… how could you have forgotten the OS X Lion‘s faux leather look look update?!
If you can‘t write them, acquire them.
Reminders used to be a part of the calendar app until they split them up.
Must have been around the same time they introduced the faux leather look (see above).
