Possibly, because of hardware requirements.
Maybe older devices will have limited AI functionality compared to newer ones.
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Possibly, because of hardware requirements.
Maybe older devices will have limited AI functionality compared to newer ones.
You are looking at this all wrong. This could lead to fewer Android users using 50 different messaging apps. I find two big reasons why communicating with Android users to be a pain they use random messaging apps and they ruin group messaging through messages.
Nothing about spell checking and auto correction which is still God awful on iOS. They still haven’t fixed it. Not sure I care about many of these AI features to be honest.
Yep, what the world needs is more emojis and more ways to get spammed about notifications.
Go ahead and waste silicon and battery life on that.
Will they clearly separate what's on device and what's in their cloud?
Since it's "AI" processed, will they scan what's in their cloud for "illegal content" like they tried once already?
Go ahead and waste silicon and battery life on that.
Will they clearly separate what's on device and what's in their cloud?
Since it's "AI" processed, will they scan what's in their cloud for "illegal content" like they tried once already?
Probably, classic Apple, buy new expensive hardware to use new software features. Even your M2 Ultra Mac Pro won’t support predictive emoji’s…. But they probably wrote the software on the machine 🙄
But really nothing about this sounds too exciting. There's too many third-party services for most of Apple's native apps that they can improve with AI that do the exact same stuff and have developers working just on them, so they ship new features faster, and they make it look (and work) better than Apple.
I switched away from Safari both on desktop and mobile in favor of Arc. It continually improves with new useful features. I find "Browse for me" and the AI Summary extremely useful. With Apple you have to wait for the next WWDC and then a couple of months for the feature to actually release and after it does, it doesn't improve much at all. Just look at Siri.
I switched away from Safari both on desktop and mobile in favor of Arc. It continually improves with new useful features. I find "Browse for me" and the AI Summary extremely useful. With Apple you have to wait for the next WWDC and then a couple of months for the feature to actually release and after it does, it doesn't improve much at all. Just look at Siri.
RCS has a bad rep because it started out with a poor implementation and was largely controlled by Google. But it's essentially "iMessage for Android", including requiring a data connection, not just cellular.
Apple has only agreed to adopt RCS with certain conditions... that it be end-to-end encrypted, and servers not controlled by Google. Apple will be running its own RCS servers.
Apple is severely lagging in iOS development because of misplaced priorities in creating VisionOS. Now that Apple Vision Pro has flopped hard, Timapple can direct his team to concentrate more on their core iOS and iPadOS. Time for more goodies in terms of features and updates for our beloved iDevices. Can't wait for WWDC.....
I also wonder if Apple will use AI to fix its awful Mail app on iOS? Awful because it seems to think a lot of my important emails are scam and moves them to the junk folder, despite my moving them into the main folder, another buggy software experience with them. Sigh. I think I‘ll have to go back to Outlook.
A few thoughts:
1. Most of the replies are hilarious, you all are acting like paranoid boomers, doomers and haters.
2. Most of these features, to me, appear to be pretty useful. And despite the hilarity around emojis they clearly have enough evidence that this is something many of their users actually use daily.
3. While the list pales in comparison to the features Google and openAI debuted, Apple is admitting defeat with partnerships with these companies which, let’s face it, is nice to see Apple admit.
4. I think the one area Apple will quickly fall behind is Siri. Google Gemini is quickly becoming the omnipresent contextually aware assistant that can assist its users with just about anything to the user is doing. This is really valuable and to me may actually convince me to go back to Android.
1. Most of the replies are hilarious, you all are acting like paranoid boomers, doomers and haters.
2. Most of these features, to me, appear to be pretty useful. And despite the hilarity around emojis they clearly have enough evidence that this is something many of their users actually use daily.
3. While the list pales in comparison to the features Google and openAI debuted, Apple is admitting defeat with partnerships with these companies which, let’s face it, is nice to see Apple admit.
4. I think the one area Apple will quickly fall behind is Siri. Google Gemini is quickly becoming the omnipresent contextually aware assistant that can assist its users with just about anything to the user is doing. This is really valuable and to me may actually convince me to go back to Android.
Don’t forget the car it’s wasted billions and years on too. I’m actually surprised Cook stayed on after that one, I know he’s making millions for share holders, but that project was a massive waste of resources.
You should realize that Apple has multiple teams. Teams are working on iOS 17, 18, 19 etc. There are teams working on the same for iPadOS, different teams are working on VisionOS.
The main question being: which languages does all of this apply to? Because writing iMessages with English as a language setting works MUCH better than, let's say, Italian. All of these "Machine learning stuff" works, for the time being, really only in English AFAIK.
For me personally, and I suspect it’s true for a lot of people, what I want to see from Apple’s AI integration is just being able to converse with Siri in a far more natural way when I’m asking for something. As is so often the case, I don’t want to have to say Hey Siri three times in a row when I ask one thing after another, usually as part of a related series of questions. Having Siri be able to ask me contextual questions would also be awesome.
This is all WWDC is going to be isn’t it…AI? Companies can’t even fix basic issues and we’re already rushing to the next thing that will add substantially more issues.
Be prepared folks, every new software update will be for AI and gradually slow down our devices. Especially Windows users and their jet engine processors.
Be prepared folks, every new software update will be for AI and gradually slow down our devices. Especially Windows users and their jet engine processors.
But what will they fill all new iOS updates with if not new emoticons? Bug fixes? I seriously doubt that.
Also, 30 min after release, Internet will do its thing and show that it will not be for *any* occasion
How about getting basic spelling and search to work before we get all high and mighty with AI?
Please let me know your secret, I cannot get Xcode to build reliably more than about half the time without getting corrupted caches, weird errors, false errors, crashes, etc.
In any case, Xcode has major reliability issues which need to be fixed before any AI is added.
They've been busy working on the vision pro and privacy.🤣 Why work on the next great thing when you know users are locked in and will blindly buy your next product. Free iOS updates aren't cheap.
Nothing on this list is new, with the possible exception of auto-generated emojis (for god's sakes....)
This is just marketing...as if anything new on the market is irrelevant if it doesn't have the letters 'AI' slapped all over it.
In a year or so's time set to become another meaningless term consigned to the dustbin. And then plucked out and recycled again in a decade or so.
This is just marketing...as if anything new on the market is irrelevant if it doesn't have the letters 'AI' slapped all over it.
In a year or so's time set to become another meaningless term consigned to the dustbin. And then plucked out and recycled again in a decade or so.
Anyone paying enough attention should know that Apple's "Beta" now lasts at least until January/February and often for specific functionality until April/May.
I'll withhold opinion/judgement until WWDC, but on the surface over half of those look like it'll be driven by the marketing folks who are being reactive vs. the designers, thinkers and folks at Apple who truly understand what a united, compelling human experience should be (side note: Apple has had a brain drain of those sorts of folks over the last 15 years... I couldn't tell you if there are any truly great ones left as all the ones I knew and respected left a while ago... I'm really hoping so as it's been feeling like they've been running off the fumes of legacy and ideas from the OG crowd for a while).
Oh and while we're at it, if you're going to give Xcode some great new capabilities how about finally replacing Xcode with a IDE that has some real Apple magic... all the cash on the planet and you're still rocking NextStep on steroids... great in 1985... not so much in 2025!
Oh and while we're at it, if you're going to give Xcode some great new capabilities how about finally replacing Xcode with a IDE that has some real Apple magic... all the cash on the planet and you're still rocking NextStep on steroids... great in 1985... not so much in 2025!