And the things it does is so restricted that it feels like you see the same picture with every question you ask.
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What to Expect From iOS 19: All the Rumors So Far
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Call it iOS 18 and 1/2 . Siri is rubbish and there is no Apple intelligence in this world …..
Speaking for myself and I’m not a Wall Street guy: yes I want something exciting that gives me a reason to upgrade my iPhone. I see lots of exciting things happening from coming from competitors but real excitement at Apple hasn’t happened since Timmy is captain at this titanic.
I'd be surprised if they don't drop support for at least the XR/XS (I think the 11 series could easily be on the chopping block too). Then again if there isn't really anything new coming until iOS 19.4 and they are all Apple Intelligence features that will be limited to 15 Pro and above this is basically just a security update with a new wallpaper or two and (maybe) some UI tweaks with the rest of the devices so perhaps it doesn't matter.
Can you also check for me if Apple fixed this very annoying bug in iOS? It’s been in iOS for as long as I remember and I’ve wrote about it to Apple many times.
Apps keeps growing in time. For example when installing an app from 89mb it will grow in time to over 1Gb or more. The only way to reduce it in size is to remove it and install it again.
Apple gives you now the option to clear app space. But that’s the same as reinstalling the app.
No matter what app you use it will grow in 10 fold by time.
On Android apps stay the same size. For me it’s a very annoying bug and I was hoping iOS 18.3 finally solves this.
Better, just hold off iOS 19 until Everything is ready. If it takes six or eight months fine.
Heres all they have to add IMHO. Bring back horizontal mode, add a system wide themes option, allow users to change the Siri activation word to something else, give us dual screen mode for apps on the bigger phone and improve the horrific AI stuff and we are good! Its not rocket science.
I hope that there is something nice that is not AI related.
Yup. You’d think that, over the years, Apple would have devoted enough resources to make Siri meet at least the functionality they claim for it, which more people have been wanting than those (meaning essentially zero) who might have been clamoring for cute things genmoji and Image Playground.
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, he became very resource-stingy, cutting underperforming products and projects to keep Apple alive, and it was a great success. With Siri, given the obvious need for more resources (or properly directing the resources they already had/have) to fix it and make it more useful, why did Apple instead throw resources at the cute image generation stuff? Did they do some kind of market analysis that found that sales of Apple products would go up faster if they appealed to a niche segment that’s drawn to products that do cute stuff, than if they fixed Siri on a timely basis?
I can answer that. Fixing legacy code is harder and less glamorous work than doing something new. All the devs who worked on Siri originally have moved on and so you spend half your time playing detective, trying to figure out how things are supposed to work before you even try and change anything and see what unintended consequences those changes cause somewhere else in the code. Especially as the code has probably been hacked at this point by several generations of devs, grafting this or that or just trying to keep it running. Not surprisingly all the A team devs want to only do new stuff, where they work with the latest tools and can get all excited about their new greenfield project. That's how you get Image Playground, while Siri is still stuck in the early 2000's. Won't stop the A team saying working on Siri is easy because they did it back in 2005. Just don't try and make them work on it now of course. They aren't that stupid.
These kind of scenarios are repeated across the entire industry and its why you end up with things like the banking sector running new web technologies on the front end, which links to something that was originally coded before the devs were born on the backend. No one wants to work on the backend stuff. It's a mysterious black box that just seems to work and only Geoff knows anything about how it really works. They tried to replace it once and it failed spectacularly, so everyone on that cluster quit and now no one will touch it except Geoff who was around when it was originally written. Problem is Geoff is making noises about retiring but everyone is just ignoring that and hoping it doesn't happen as there is no plan B. Honestly you can repeat a variation of this on any large IT software dev site, it's that common.
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Yep, just waiting for the next major worldwide failure because something critical everyone uses fails. And then we find out it’s been maintained for 20 years by one unpaid volunteer.
I mean I get that too, it’s not as easy as it sounds. But at some point they are just building new attractions around an increasingly creaky bridge. They gotta do the boring work of fixing the potholes and widening the lanes. To use a car analogy.
But I see what you mean, they are both somehow not copying the best of Android and also not introducing a lot of compelling unique features.
Just goes to show that it doesn’t matter how successful or rich a company gets, they will always remain slaves to Wall St and their never-ending hunger for more
I’ve long given up on Siri in other languages but English. Good luck with German- she doesn’t get the difference between “3rd” and “13th”, two entirely different sounding words. 🫣
