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iOS 26 Speculation Thread
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Yeah, and Gruber provides zero evidence to backup his claims. Instead, he wrote up an anti-Apple hit piece like a whiny little child who didn’t get his way… He’s not taking an evidence-based, level-headed approach, he’s taking a super emotional and irrational approach, making claims without a single shred of evidence… Meanwhile sources within Apple reported on the progress of development of these features, meaning it’s almost certain that these features do, in fact, exist and are in development. From what I’ve read actually citing evidence and actual sources from inside Apple, it seems Apple was nearing release for these features, but ran into last-minute setbacks that caused them to have to delay them. This sometimes happens with software development.
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple...
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I am not sure what evidence you require. It's an opinion piece, not researched journalism.
And his emotion is that he is angry at himself for being sucked into the Reality Distortion Field. He feels betrayed and that is a perfectly honest response. He got sucked into marketing and "Apple’s track record of consistently shipping pre-announced products and features" and didn't treat them like every other company on the planet. He calls More Personal Siri "vaporware"--"not a demo. It was a concept video." Until it ships, that's true. An announcement is not a product.
"Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."
When you’re going to accuse Apple of supposedly making up these features without them in development to maliciously swindle customers, etc. (cue eye roll, because that’s all these silly accusations deserve), then you should have evidence. Otherwise, it would be like me saying in an article published for thousands of people to read: “HouseLannister is a thief” (just an example, not saying you are 🙂), and then when people point out “woh there, where’s the evidence for that claim”, saying “well, it’s an opinion piece, so I can say whatever I want even if I don’t have evidence to back it up. The problem is, he has zero evidence to support his accusations towards Apple. And many readers will read that piece and assume he’s stating facts rather than opinions, especially since he doesn’t do a clear job of separating out his opinions from the actual facts and evidence. And his “opinion” actually contradicts the evidence we do have with sources from within Apple reporting on the progress of development of these features….Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple...
I am not sure what evidence you require. It's an opinion piece, not researched journalism.
And his emotion is that he is angry at himself for being sucked into the Reality Distortion Field. He feels betrayed and that is a perfectly honest response. He got sucked into marketing and "Apple’s track record of consistently shipping pre-announced products and features" and didn't treat them like every other company on the planet. He calls More Personal Siri "vaporware"--"not a demo. It was a concept video." Until it ships, that's true. An announcement is not a product.
"Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."
They still are going to ship these features as far as we’re aware, they’ve just been delayed. While delays can be disappointing, delays can happen. It’s just the way things work out sometimes…
His accusations that the more personal Siri improvements were somehow “vaporware” implies they don’t actually exist. He implies that several times throughout his screed, implying that Apple wasn’t even developing the features. But all of the evidence points to Apple is and has been developing these features, but just ran into some last-minute setbacks that caused them to have to delay the public release. Apple has used concept videos in the past to show other features not available yet in the first public beta of the new OS, that doesn’t mean they’re “vaporware”, it merely means they aren’t ready for the general public yet. Same here. Just because they aren’t available yet to the public doesn’t mean they don’t exist or aren’t in development…
The bottom line: if he’s going to throw accusations at a company in a publication read by thousands of readers, he should actually have evidence for his claims, and not only do his claims lack evidence, the evidence we do have contradicts his claims…
Which is? This is a rumor site. What evidence am I missing here? Actual journalism, not rumor.
The only quote I heard was Tim Cook telling people on an earnings call they are "making progress." (Which of course he would say)
Tim Cook addresses Apple's delay of personalized Siri features - 9to5Mac
During today’s earnings call with analysts, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the company’s delay of its more personal Siri features...
9to5mac.com
Am I missing some other quote from an Apple executive on the record with a reporter telling us where they were last June, where they were when the iPhone 16-series launched in September, and where they are now?
If Sam Altman says he has an AI device that will transform our lives and make our phones obsolete, and then he shows us an iPod Shuffle and some product videos, but doesn't ship it for another year or longer, is it wrong to call it vaporware until there is a working demo?
People (the internet) expect everything instantly and don’t allow for barriers that may slow a process unless it’s their process then cue the excuses. Apple makes a lot of money so should be perfect claims the internet. I want and I expect shouts the internet. I have no patience and expect perfection from everyone except myself throws up the internet. It’s sad that some people put so much effort and thought into things that mean very little in the totality of life. Such is the internet.
The confusion is when it was announced… obviously, you are right that the feature exists.
But Gruber issue is the video is seen as “vaporware” because it hasn’t been shown or tested with the public (not even one 3rd party source)… if it’s not ready for the public, then what would you call it? I agree… it’s in development… however Apple shouldn’t have been in this situation to begin with.
It’s one thing showing off a video… but a whole other thing doing advertising and everything. It makes it seen as if it was to be announced soon. And I’m fully aware delays happen… but understandably, this is Apple. Everything they do is under critical examination… I think they were caught up in the AI train, announced a feature they couldn’t deliver.
Edit. not announced soon, but released.
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Mark Gurman (a journalist at Bloomberg), shared several reports about the progress of development of these Apple Intelligence features citing his sources from within Apple. Several other regarded Apple leakers known to have sources within Apple shared reports that agreed, citing info about internal development of the features from their sources.Which is? This is a rumor site. What evidence am I missing here? Actual journalism, not rumor.
The only quote I heard was Tim Cook telling people on an earnings call they are "making progress." (Which of course he would say)
Tim Cook addresses Apple's delay of personalized Siri features - 9to5Mac
During today’s earnings call with analysts, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the company’s delay of its more personal Siri features...
Am I missing some other quote from an Apple executive on the record with a reporter telling us where they were last June, where they were when the iPhone 16-series launched in September, and where they are now?
If Sam Altman says he has an AI device that will transform our lives and make our phones obsolete, and then he shows us an iPod Shuffle and some product videos, but doesn't ship it for another year or longer, is it wrong to call it vaporware until there is a working demo?
Furthermore, the burden of evidence is on him. He’s making accusations. If he’s going to make accusations of supposed wrongdoing literally titling his article “something’s rotten in the state of Apple”, then he should have evidence for his accusations. But he doesn’t provide any. He doesn’t cite a single piece of evidence for his accusations. He wants to talk about “red flags”, well, making accusations that contradict the evidence that is available without providing a single piece of evidence himself to support his accusations, that’s a big red flag…
They presumably were planning on delivering the features soon. Everything we have indicates they ran into last-minute issues that caused a delay.
Imma stop you right there.
The guy who said Apple is going to launch X and then says several months later that X is canceled rather than say he was wrong? Where’s my HomePod with a screen? Where’s my Apple Watch with a camera?
If the guy issued retractions and apologies like a journalist, I would trust him more. He creates a rumor and then ends it with another rumor. And he has done this dozens of times over the past few years.
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??? He didn’t say those things were coming right now. All of the indicators point to those things coming in the next years… I think even Gurman himself has said as much… And like Gurman or not, but he is actually a journalist, not an opinion writer… And he also generally does a good job of separating out his opinion or conjecture from the actual facts, something Gruber doesn’t do in his anti-Apple screed… And on this, other leakers agreed with him, with similar reports coming from their sources inside Apple as well.
This is effectively how this argument has gone: someone’s claimed “HouseLannister is a thief” in a publication thousands read without clearly defining the difference between their opinions and facts (even saying “HouseLannister is a thief in my opinion” wouldn’t really be much better, because that opinion is still based on zip zero evidence and is an accusation against another party, not merely an opinion…), I’ve said “woh, where’s the evidence for your claims that HouseLannister is a thief?”, and then you have replied to me with “where’s the evidence HouseLannister isn’t a thief?”. See the problem? The burden of evidence rests on the one making the negative accusations, aka, Gruber… And he hasn’t provided any evidence for his claims.
All I know is I haven’t devoted my whole life worrying about it. Your mileage may vary.soooo…. Anybody think iOS 19 gonna have something like circle to search?
Of all the leaks I really hope this ones wrong. Not only will this be extremely confusing to all the NPCs out there, but even to the enthusiasts like most of us it doesn’t make sense.
Version your software according to release date? Fine, but do it right. If it releases September 2025, then it needs to be called 25.09 or something similar. Apple’s versioning system has already been terrible for about a decade now (like, releasing the same version 3 or 4 times with a different build instead of upping to a minor release) this is even more ridiculous than that.
I was hoping they were going to move away from yearly releases in general. That’s the main reason everything has been so buggy the past few years.
I completely disagree. And I hope they continue to release yearly releases.
AirPower certainly existed in a lab and people were working on it. Doesn't mean it's not vaporware.
Why? They are absolutely terrible for quality control. They scramble every year for big new features that are almost always half-baked at best.
This is a pretty common opinion. I rarely see people in favor of yearly releases.
There is no reason to believe the enhanced Siri features aren’t on the way. They’re delayed, not cancelled…
I think quality control is perfectly fine in iOS. Even running developer betas, I’ve rarely encountered any bugs. And they should release new features each year, it would be incredibly boring if they didn’t and we lost yearly releases…
Correct. Every Jew knows September is the start of the year 5786, so it should be iOS 86 and any other number is antisemitic.
iOS 26 rumor roundup: New features, design changes, more
Apple's iOS 26 is expected to have a radical redesign, and it's probably going to mark the beginning of an entirely new numbering system. Here's everything that's rumored to be in the update.
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Gurman: this WWDC probably won’t be Apple's AI comeback - 9to5Mac
Insiders believe WWDC may be a letdown from an AI standpoint. Still, Apple has a few AI-related announcements slated for June 9.
9to5mac.com
My guess for first beta is:
- New look for Springboard/UI stuff
- Option to change handoff AI from ChatGPT to Gemini and others
- Visual Intelligence gets screen sharing support
- Encrypted RCS
- Maybe some more customization/themeing support. Icon picker? Vertical widgets? App Library category editing? Rename apps?
- Wildcard wish: a real dock with more icons, magnification, and auto hide.
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