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Apple Considered AI-Powered iPhone Home Screen
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AI has literally destroyed everything relating to technology. Now all we have is slop.
The Apple folks think they are experts. Many are still wet behind the ears with no real world experience of trying to actually use these dumb ideas. Recent “new” ideas often make the common sense seem missing at Apple.
Was probably made as a joke from someone in a meeting to break tension. Happens more often than you might think. People aren't serious all the time.
There seems to have been a bunch of inaccuracies from that report from "The Information".
No one on Mac because Spotlight does it for you, even if you don't want it to.
My thought exactly. If we want something that sorts apps differently every time, there's the App Library for that, not the Home Screen. The widget is the best and IMO only reasonable middle ground.
These dudes should reorganise themselves from being anywhere near such decisions.
I remember back when spotlight search was introduced by SJ & he made a huge thing of it about how they were searching for a solution & they had already solved it by using iTunes search - Spotlight could search words in pictures, pdfs, the works.
Skip forward to today & I was looking for the Plexamp app on the phone, so typed in amp & got nothing, nada, zilch.
Not sure when this changed, but this is what they should be focussing on, you know, like the basics!
I remember back when spotlight search was introduced by SJ & he made a huge thing of it about how they were searching for a solution & they had already solved it by using iTunes search - Spotlight could search words in pictures, pdfs, the works.
Skip forward to today & I was looking for the Plexamp app on the phone, so typed in amp & got nothing, nada, zilch.
Not sure when this changed, but this is what they should be focussing on, you know, like the basics!
ANYTHING related to any kind if search in apple systems is PITA.. not working, not finding anything…
If you are old enough to remember I think it was MS Office 2003 that had randomly rearranging menus. They thought putting the things you used the most at the top of each menu was a good idea. If your task was to do one thing only all day every day it might have been a good idea. It certainly wasn't for me.
No, the menus have to stay in place. I don't read them to find the ones I use a lot, I look four spots down, top of the second divider, etc.
I'd welcome this. I've given up manually laying out the home screen icons. Became too cumbersome, and a swipe down to search mode is much quicker to launch any app.
I would definitely not like the icons on the Home Screen auto rearranging. I already dislike the auto categories in the App Library. Why can’t I just organize them the way I want? Half of my apps are in the wrong category.
Oh dear Lord no! I'm happy knowing where my apps are and choosing accordingly, rather than having to play Hunt The App every time I want to do something.
I think they’re running out of ideas. Either that or creative thinkers going to other companies.
Probably a mix of both: maturing platform and brain drain. I’d be surprised if Apple is still considered to be a top tech company by the end of next decade.
I've always hated menus which don't grey-out inapplicable items but hide/remove them. So you don't slowly get to see and remember most of the items over time, even if they can't be used, but they appear as if they have never been there before.