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Report: These 10 New AI Features Are Coming in iOS 18
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What advantages? All features that Apple plans to do on the device are already done on the device by Apple's (to put it politely) main "source of inspiration" which is Samsung. Besides marketing speech there is no privacy advantage as far as AI is concerned.
They didn’t mention what kind of retouch. I just hope it is at least as good as Firefire by Adobe, or at least Google Photos standard. Anything less is a dismay.
Really hope Apple still has enough class to avoid a screen saying:
This device is unable to support the magical AI features of iOS 18.
Tap here to open the Apple Store app and upgrade your device
Tap here to continue without upgrading or finding happiness
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Apple really screwed up. They devoted enormous capital to a headset when everyone else was building LLMs. Reminds me of when Microsoft failed to embrace the internet and then spent two decades catching up with Google.
You bet they will do that eventually, milking the cow as much as possible
I hate this whole ****. It makes the web and convos so polluted with ai baked long *** answers and coating
I would be impressed if AI creates unique emojis, but I don’t think so.
This way, I don’t have to read about Apple adding new emojis when a new iOS is released. It is crazy how adding emojis on iOS is “news”!
Indeed! Before AI replies, what we need is Siri to hear us correctly the first time! After that, to be able to maintain context when making multiple requests, and to integrate with a significantly expanded Shortcuts. Obviously Shortcut-level of integration would need a comprehensive but simple to understand UI to confirm Siri’s understanding matches the user requests.
I think you have that backwards. Most MR readers, already having their mind made up, will reflexively hate it.
Others, with an open mind (and not having an anti-Apple mindset) will give it a whirl and probably like the experience and results. And keep on using it going forward.
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On-device AI might lead to sentient iPhones when things get really good. Yeah baby 
Egyptians started using emojis heavily until their whole writing became what we know as Hieroglyphs.Like it or not, probably-old dudes above me here, lots of people use emojis heavily in text conversations rather than typing out unique descriptions. I for one think it might be kind of fun to invent phrases that would trigger emoji creation, like "goth sadness."
Soon our world will also "evolve" to have a single Emoji-based writing language, easy to understand by anyone.
Apple's (to put it politely) main "source of inspiration"???
Hahahah! That really made me laugh.... Where were you in 2010?
Do some historical research and you will learn something.
Samsung copied Apple since the beginning of the iPhone. If it wasnt' for apple, we would still have phones that look like the BlackBerry or with a slide out keyboard, with a plastic touch display (not capacitative display). Their first phones were a shameless copy of the iPhone.
And that has continue. They must have moles inside Apple spying on new features. Otherwise Apple wouldn't go to great lengths to keep their projects top secret.
And most features Samsung rushed to deploy have already been under research by Apple and only released when the feature works as expected.
Take FaceID as an example. You can't compare it to Samsung's garbage face recognition.
Folding phones? Apple has been working on them and considered the display technology was up tp their standards.
In the meantime, Samsung rushed to released folding phones that flopped.
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I predict Apple will claim to have invented RCS at WWDC.
Also, they have the suggested email follow up thing in Sonoma and I have to turn that off again every time there's an update. Hate it.
18 features fall under the category of Bells and Whistles. Nothing there that’s a must-have feature
Hopefully Apple can do More with AI than this
Hopefully Apple can do More with AI than this
Good call. Maybe they should just rename iOS to iPreview.
Looking at memojis/animojis, I would temper my expectations.
In the same vein, they also should draw their own emojis.
It likely means older devices will support it online via Apple's servers.
Nope. RCS was conceived almost 20 years ago, and implemented by mobile carriers not long after that. Apple isn't stupid.
Hopefully Safari will support suggested forum replies.