I haven't had an iPhone since the 7 Plus and recently helped a relative set up their 11 Pro Max. I thought it felt quite outdated and missing a lot of features thinking it was on an old version of iOS. Nope, that was iOS 17. Absolute drab. The keyboard is hilarious, basically zero features other than letters and a huge empty space at the bottom wasting screen real estate.
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I haven't had an iPhone since the 7 Plus and recently helped a relative set up their 11 Pro Max. I thought it felt quite outdated and missing a lot of features thinking it was on an old version of iOS. Nope, that was iOS 17. Absolute drab. The keyboard is hilarious, basically zero features other than letters and a huge empty space at the bottom wasting screen real estate.
You’re on an Apple fan site, you know.
Also, Apple Maps works well enough, and is much better looking. I prefer it—by a wide margin.
The magnets are in a different layout allowing for landscape camera. So yes there is a reason
The apple pencil pro isn't interchangeable nor vice versa due to the landscape camera which requires a different pairing solution
And yes, it's a joke
This looks incredibly powerful. I don't like everything Apple does, but I've favored their cautious, deliberate approach and have been all-in on them since the mid 2000's. I *hope* to keep it that way.
But as another commenter said, this makes almost everything Apple has to offer look like Fisher Price. This may end up being the most critical WWDC of the Tim Cook era, because if other loyal users (like myself) are feeling the intoxicating blend of envy and possibility I'm feeling right now, there may be a major shift brewing.
For the first time, I'm wondering if the "privacy" tradeoffs are worth it, when considering the quality of life improvements and cognitive load reductions possible with a Gemini-powered Android device. Your move, Apple. I'll give it at least a year to see how this plays out, but at that point, the cards are on the table.
But as another commenter said, this makes almost everything Apple has to offer look like Fisher Price. This may end up being the most critical WWDC of the Tim Cook era, because if other loyal users (like myself) are feeling the intoxicating blend of envy and possibility I'm feeling right now, there may be a major shift brewing.
For the first time, I'm wondering if the "privacy" tradeoffs are worth it, when considering the quality of life improvements and cognitive load reductions possible with a Gemini-powered Android device. Your move, Apple. I'll give it at least a year to see how this plays out, but at that point, the cards are on the table.
There's no binary law that says we can't do both. There's no question human validation is currently often necessary, but AI is capable of a lot of the heavy lifting.
Don‘t forget that new Apple AI feature will be only for US and Canada users and very few languages… as usual.
I’m very impressed with OpenAI yesterday demo, also works with my language and my culture, Siri not.
So far AI seems more like having your uncle who is on the spectrum, who always talks about stuff you don't care about waiting to tell you obvious things or long lists of things that obsess over. I am confused why this is considered so valuable...But I'm willing to be surprised.
Go touch some grass, what has the apple pencils compatibility got to do with AI. For context the old Apple Pencil can’t work with the new iPads as they’ve changed the magnet array due to the camera and faceID tech being put in the same place as the pencils magnet array.
They’re definitely not, not without telling you. Apple’s core feature is privacy, breaking that would result in Apple being dragged by the media and the loss of customers that are with them for their privacy.
Pretty sure you could argue Apple has made more content creators and creators in general. Apple also provides free music creation and video creation apps with iPhone, iPad & Mac. They also have plenty of PRO apps that are used by creatives once they have a platform.
Seems to be a lot of Android nerds on this Apple forum 👀. Poking fun at Apple’s lack of AI, despite WWDC only weeks away where we already know some of these features are going to be announced. Let hope Apple teamed up with OpenAI over Google, since openAI are the leaders in AI
You do know how much data Apple collects from its devices, right? And how often macOS phones home with what you're doing? They're not so much selling it off but they're absolutely making their own money off your data and locking us into using our devices how they want us to.
Impressive as a demo. Useless for 90% of the persons in real life.
Typical Apple user comment
You have obviously never used a decent android phone then because my sister keeps hers for years & updates the os & doesn’t have a problem.
Yeah because the Apple Vision Pro will be so successful that everyone will go & buy one
Oh great, now any idiot can generate fake AI images in any app, scaring someone’s grandparents. And it can reply to all of the social media responses as well.
How many years until our phones just stay plugged in the corner with a fan on them maintaining an entire fake life for us?
Like the other day I heard the CEO of Bumble or some such dating app was talking about putting AI into the app to make you more attractive, write your profile, respond to messages, and go on dates with other user’s AI. So in the future, I can virtually cheat on my wife and have virtual kids and a whole virtual family in the cloud. WAT
How many years until our phones just stay plugged in the corner with a fan on them maintaining an entire fake life for us?
Like the other day I heard the CEO of Bumble or some such dating app was talking about putting AI into the app to make you more attractive, write your profile, respond to messages, and go on dates with other user’s AI. So in the future, I can virtually cheat on my wife and have virtual kids and a whole virtual family in the cloud. WAT
Private to them. They will still sell you targeted ads, but the advertising companies can't see who they are selling to.