No…. I think most people had enough of Ive’s form over function design concepts.
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John Gruber Says 'Something is Rotten' at Apple
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They are really hoping the OS updates will keep hardware sales going with bells and whistles, but its totally backfiring and putting too much pressure on teams to find a problem to the solution they are coming up with. For example, how many times have you accessed your iPhone from your Mac? I did it once, never did it again.
I remember when you wrote this and agreed with you heartedly at the time. But the thing is, you don’t have to be a visionary to understand that the feature that is on all Apple products and is therefore mostly THE face of Apple needs to be absolutely above reproach. Only one year of seeing negative comments about Siri should have been enough to make all of Apple stretch to make it exemplary. There is simply no other way to look at it.
I'm sure the companies care about it, but I don't and I don't work on tech. I see no point in talking to my phone or computer, and I don't want to chat with it like I do a person.
Others can do that, and that's fine. I'm just speaking from my point of view.
I only use cleanup in photos, but I absolutely love it.
I am remembering when Apple briefly allowed Siri to search your photos. Also, when I could have her add notations to notes, not just start a new one. Apple should be able to reinstate those features, since code is already written for those, even though it was abandoned, and make it look like Siri is making some advances even if she can’t do all the things yet that were promised to come in the future. I hope Apple does not sit back and see all the rightfully worded ill will from the misrepresentation of the features for OS 18 Siri, but at least gives us some features on its way to giving to the promised ones. Photos and contacts would be very popular popular places to start.
Clean up is something Google was shipping on Pixels years before ChatGPT existed. It's beneath table stakes - it was embarrassing that Apple had not shipped their own version.
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Even more embarrassing is how bad it is compared to other, competing solutions doing the same thing.
Yeah. It is much, much worse than Magic Eraser. You can try it for free in the Google Photos app on iPhone. Apple is behind. People should just accept that.
Absolutely!.
As a software engineer who has both worked from home and from the office I can tell you I am so much more productive when I have to spend an hour or more commuting every day. Working in a glass cube with 5 other engineers where I need to wear noise-cancelling headphones to block out distractions and still get interrupted constantly by people tapping me on the shoulder to ask a question just helps me to concentrate. Needing to spend time finding an empty conference room every time I want to make a phone call or brainstorm with some other engineers sends my productivity through the roof. Walking to meetings on the other side of campus so that I can sit in a conference room where half the people are on WebEx anyways because they are across the world is the best possible way to have a meeting.
It's just impossible to put in extra hours of work at home since it takes a whole 10 seconds to walk from my bedroom to my office. Being able to close the door and concentrate uninterrupted for long stretches of time makes writing code or debugging so much harder. Collaborating via Slack where I can reach out to experts across the whole organization instead of just those in my immediate vicinity and share my knowledge with others in ways that does not interrupt my workflow is just awful. Being able to pick up the phone or fire up WebEx and know I can have a private conversation without disturbing others or risking them overhearing confidential information is such a bummer.
While I tend to agree, it CLEARLY doesn't work for Apple if this is the result. Our personal pref on WFH is not relevant, they aren't capable.
What a dumb take. The people who work on Siri have been working in person since before the iPhone 4s. How is that working out?
If Siri were a paid feature on the devices. It would have improved long ago.
If Apple was capable of making Siri better, they would have and launched a subscription service for more features, like with Gemini Advanced.
How about Apple just gives up and licenses something? How many years of failures must users accept?
For enough money, Apple can buy a solution where Apple hosts the tech and someone who knows what they are doing makes it. Privacy can be preserved, though that's mostly a late Cook-era marketing term.
great idea. They did it for silicon, they did it for test flight, they CAN do it, so what's the holdup except maybe misguided pride?
I stand by your perspective. I talked to my phone for a few months back in '23. My significant other used to laugh at me for talking to my phone. Now, every text message they send me has been transcribed by Siri. Alarms and timers for things? I hear a voice calling out to their phone, "Siri, set an n min timer," or "Siri, turn on my hh:mm alarm."
(Why did I stop talking to my phone? Anything I asked my phone to do required my phone to be in an unlocked state to do anything. Why talk to my phone to get directions if I have to stop and unlock my phone first. I might as well pull over, do the needful, and then continue on my way.)
I appreciate that this was anticipated and so Gemini can do this- if you turn it on- without unlocking. Why can't Apple let this work if an Apple watch is close? I dunno just spit-balling
You just prove that you don‘t know, that you are already using AI functionality. There is no way to avoid using AI functionality - even if you keep saying you don‘t need it. Especially if you don‘t work on tech - if you talk to a person you won‘t know if it is an AI and if you enter a search into a search engine, some AI functionality is triggered.
Your iPhone camera takes pictures, but what it shows to you is an AI generated/MLP modified picture, the sky has the color your iPhone thinks it should have. And when you search „cars“ in your photos, AI functionality takes over - but of course, you don‘t use such kind of functionality.
The world is changing …
I can just imagine the TechBro AI future. Everyone walking around malls and shopping centres, yelling at their phones, hoping their phones hear them over everyone else yelling at their phones, because they’ve all forgotten how to do things themselves. 😆
I'm referring to LLM-gpt style. Rebadged AI, that would previously be called machine learning is what you're talking about....until marketing took over, isn't what I'm talking about.
Which is why I am saying 'license' and not buy. License something. Use that as a stop gap. Buy something that's AI-based, which Siri never was.