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Google Gemini-Powered Siri Will Reportedly Have These 7 New Features
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Goog won’t get any of it. It doesn’t go back to them. Stays on Apples servers.
Yes. But you’ll need outside ChatGPT pre-marital counseling.
Wasn't proactive suggestions announced last year already? (Or 2 years ago rather)
NEW FEATURES:
1) Actually works
2) ...
1) Actually works
2) ...
Can’t wait for the Pro Timer Bundle to supercharge my personalised timers with AI!
Another $129/year for a timer that just works!
Provide emotional support? No. Just no.
Two words Trust & Apple: once aligned but now that’s suspicious.
People have been sold a bill of goods by hearing over and over that the Cupertino company protects privacy.
In order to “provide emotional support” which AI is perfectly capable of, it must have access to your personal data. Another AI specialty… collecting everything you type, search for, and so much more.
Privacy becomes a myth that only the naive believe exists.
Might also be much worse than nothing (except for companies profiting from this, of course)
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks AI 'Friends' Can Solve The Loneliness Crisis. Here's What AI Experts Think.
The tech billionaire also suggested there may be untapped potential in AI girlfriends and therapists.
Now that Ai has advanced to the point where it can sense and identify a persons mood, a person’s emotions, we’ve crossed the line.
The fact that we can no longer turn off our iPhone is another line crossed.
Those naive enough to believe that Ai or personal assistant, or microphone or camera can be turned off may be in for quite the surprise.
Suddenly Ai advancements are upon us in ways that many people if they knew the truth, would be very uncomfortable with.
A few years ago when Google quietly removed their slogan “Don’t be evil” some astute observers saw that as a red flag. Oh how the times have changed.
But what if that’s not possible?
Oh sure there’s currently a setting for that, but what if that doesn’t actually turn it off.
Once we had control and could turn off our iPhone. Today that’s not possible. There’s a setting for that but the phone remains on in the background.
When they finally launch the proactive features, it will be awkward and embarrassing if they discuss them at WWDC 26.
Maybe they’ll ghost us all and pretend it’s all new and that the 24 keynotes and ads never happened.
My brother has a pixel. It’s very good. The iPhone is still better - hardware - but not by too much.
Android material you 3 - snappy name! - is on par with Liquid Glass and in many ways is better. But android apps can still be pretty inconsistent in their UI.
And Gemini is very very good.
Even Timer, which I use constantly for rest periods between sets at the gym, is super glitchy (iOS 17 and then now iOS18, both on iPhone 15 Pro). Sometimes it doesn’t make any sound, sometimes it rings the timer alarm once or twice and then stops without any input from me, and sometimes the music that was playing doesn’t start again after canceling the timer. Not to mention the lingering Siri icon for 5 seconds after single usage.
Don’t know if it’s better on iOS26, but I’m not updating until at least 26.3 as I’m sick of new bugs popping up every time I upgrade. iOS18 was brutal enough.
The obvious ick of providing “emotional support” aside, this all sounds very underwhelming.
Why will you be disabling it?
Is it because you think that running Google's neural weights on Apples Private Cloud means that Google now magically know stuff about you?