Please don't put lipstick on Siri and claim it is breakthrough AI...
One thing Apple could do with AI is to make shortcuts easy and intuitive to use.
Like if I'm going home from work, why can't the phone predict that I'm going home, and prompt me if I would like to run a "coming home at evening time" routine? And if I do want to run it, then run shortcuts or other backend actions for various disparate things like setting the right temp on the thermostat, disarming the alarm system when I am a couple min away, turning on the smart lights, running the water heater's recirculation so water is warm at the shower, etc? I have to do these things manually and some of the apps don't have any plugins for Apple's shortcuts infrastructure. So I can't set a routine to automatically everything I want to do anyways.
It would be nice for the phone and iOS apps to be like a brain and nervous system, where iOS itself can speak to Apps and get them to trigger certain functions. Right now each App is like its own little island, its own little ecosystem, but they don't really come together as a community.
Like for example, if the thermostat has been off all day and now it's evening time and I set it to come on, mightn't it also be true that maybe I'd like the water heater to heat and recirculate water too and for smart lights to come on? There's no central iOS intelligence autonomously making such inferences or decisions. The human body is made up of disparate systems like the nervous and cardivascular systems... but they all work together autonomously as a cohesive whole. We don't have to "think" to breathe or for the heart to pump blood or for the liver, lungs, etc to do what they are designed to do. They just do it, autonomously.
Why can't iOS be similar when it comes to automation? Each app has certain capabilities, but many times they require manual user intervention, and sometimes we just want things to be automated. Just a thought of mine.
