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Apple to Unveil iOS 27 in June With These New Features Beyond Siri

klowy79 said:
"iOS 27 may be similar to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that Apple is apparently focused on improving "quality and underlying performance."

If you're sending people to Siri bootcamp, then Apple has zero chance of getting rid of all the bugs they've created in the past several years. I expect nothing solid from Apple anymore. Consequently, I'm rarely disapointed. Also, rarely impressed.
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I mean, “The Information” said they’re sending people to Siri bootcamp. With the horrible track record of everyone in the “leaker” business, it’s best to assume that if you’re reading it, and it’s talking about something in the future, the person that wrote it knows Apple’s not going to dispute their claims so, it’s made up. ESPECIALLY if it sounds like something’s being done at the last minute. The fact that what they’re saying isn’t true doesn’t matter. By the time whatever Apple’s doing is done, it won’t matter if they just sent people, sent people six months ago or never sent ANYONE to something called “Siri bootcamp”. They just have to keep writing because it brings in the bucks.
 
Improved Siri strangely sound to me like.

“The new Ford Pinto”. Or the “only fires when you pull the trigger P320”.

Siri, and the name itself are just broken and done. Start over. Do better.
 
I know WWDC rarely has hardware announcements but could there be some desktop ones to add more interest to the event to soften the blow of the relative lack of features in iOS 27? Seems to me that some key updates could land at the event.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
So basically a lot of ML stuff, no LLM stuff, and still no sign of the Siri Ai that was originally promised for iOS 18?


Respectfully, I'd argue that iOS 26 is in worse shape compared to Leopard.
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Really? In what ways? I remember Leopard having wide compatibility issues and crashing every five minutes on older hardware. All of which was fixed via glorious cd rom install.

If you think the masses today would put up with what very few of us did back then…well…you’d be very wrong!
 
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capamac said:
"iOS 27" text in the photo looks kinda neat, but has awful legibility due to low contrast. Which is one of Liquid Glass's problems -- legibility and low contrast.
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Yes, indeed.
I was wondering why it said iOS 27 in the title but iOS ?7 in the photo.
 
song in my head: “do you remember…”


 

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Looking forward to seeing the improvements. 5G satellite connectivity will either be US only or limited to an extremely few countries. Improvements to Visual Intelligence will also be good.
 
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HouseLannister said:
If the words "Snow Leopard" come out of any presenter's lips, I will eat my hat.
There will be code clean up and bug fixes, but this is not the no-new-features ethos that Snow Leopard had.
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TBF Snow Leopard got the Mac App Store late in its life - to install Lion - which is a pretty big feature.

But yeah, I share the general sentiment here.

Something is wrong with Apple's Software Engineering product roadmap and implementation.

They seriously need to pause and to fix what they have - the various bugs, regressions, UI issues and UX issues such as surfacing buried features better. The very long list goes on.

Of course, the one big feature - the AI promises from WWDC 24 - they absolutely do need to roll out.

But apart from that - just fix the bugs please.

I would say though that iPadOS should be all steam ahead.

Apple are way behind in making the iPad into the modular touch first equivalent to MacOS.

Instead they seem to be deliberately holding it back - seemingly so that the iPad doesn't cannibalise Mac sales.
 
HouseLannister said:
If the words "Snow Leopard" come out of any presenter's lips, I will eat my hat.
There will be code clean up and bug fixes, but this is not the no-new-features ethos that Snow Leopard had.
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The entire “zero new features” story of Snow Leopard was more marketing than anything anyway, arguably Snow Leopard had tuns of new features, way more than most modern macOS updates.
Rewritten Finder, proper Microsoft exchange support, the public release of Safari 4 which was a major redesign at the time, QuickTime X, a complete reshuffling of the system preferences, expose in the dock, iTunes 9, a Complete revamp on how macOS calculates storage, first macOS with a 64 bit kernel, introduction of location services from the iPhone, and in later 10.6.X updates the expansion of multi touch gestures for the brand new at the time magic mouse and Magic Trackpad, the Mac AppStore, FaceTime and so on and so on.
And as the release notes for the first several updates show, the initial releases of snow leopard were kind of a buggy mess. Deleting entire home folders, flickering displays, WebCams and printers not working, iLife and iWork compatibility issues, problems with Adobe flash and so many more.
Apple releasing a “Snow Leopard like” update really doesn’t mean much.
Arguably Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia we’re all smaller updates than Snow Leopard.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
The entire “zero new features” story of Snow Leopard was more marketing than anything anyway, arguably Snow Leopard had tuns of new features, way more than most modern macOS updates.
Rewritten Finder, proper Microsoft exchange support, the public release of Safari 4 which was a major redesign at the time, QuickTime X, a complete reshuffling of the system preferences, expose in the dock, iTunes 9, a Complete revamp on how macOS calculates storage, first macOS with a 64 bit kernel, introduction of location services from the iPhone, and in later 10.6.X updates the expansion of multi touch gestures for the brand new at the time magic mouse and Magic Trackpad, the Mac AppStore, FaceTime and so on and so on.
And as the release notes for the first several updates show, the initial releases of snow leopard were kind of a buggy mess. Deleting entire home folders, flickering displays, WebCams and printers not working, iLife and iWork compatibility issues, problems with Adobe flash and so many more.
Apple releasing a “Snow Leopard like” update really doesn’t mean much.
Arguably Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia we’re all smaller updates than Snow Leopard.
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The term "Snow Leopard update" had become a mythological telephone tag creature defined by people's vague recollections of it, plus the hype about it, being communicated to people who didn't actually experience it but who have read about other people's vague recollections of it and the hype, assuming what they were reading was accurate.
 
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johnsawyercjs said:
The term "Snow Leopard update" had become a mythological telephone tag creature defined by people's vague recollections of it, plus the hype about it, and people who didn't actually experience it but who have read about other people's vague recollections of it and the hype, assuming what they were reading was accurate.
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Agree.
A more useful comparison would be iOS 12, which wasn’t necessarily “0 new features” but was heavily focused on speed and quality of life improvements.
Improvements listed include 40% faster app launches, 50% faster bringing up the keyboard and 70% faster Camera launch.
 
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