Apple internally believes its iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18 updates next year will be "ambitious and compelling," thanks to major...
TL;DR: Apple's upcoming iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18 updates are expected to be "ambitious and compelling," featuring generative AI improvements, especially in Siri. The revamped Siri may offer enhanced integration with Messages, auto-generated Apple Music playlists, and productivity app integration. Apple is investing $1 billion annually in AI research, aiming to compete with Google and OpenAI. The company is debating whether to deploy the new AI technology via the cloud, on-device, or a combination.
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In 2005 or so, I got a tip about an application called LaunchBar, which would later be copied by Apple to replace the Sherlock search tool, and later by Microsoft in its PowerToys suite. The machine learning LaunchBar used to tailor its responses based on my previous behavior was life-changing. Instead of configuring an application, I just had to use it to change how it behaved.
This is how language models and AI are going to improve your products. Subtly. Behind the scenes. Slightly improving a thousand different use cases, only a fraction of which your regular usage patterns are going to intersect with.
Not sure if you meant general AI or something else, that’s probably going to be a huge step if we ever get there. But the LLMs we currently have are already quite impactful even with their limitations. I don’t think anyone can deny that - and we’re clearly just at the beginning of this.
Apple Watch batteries are certain not industry leading. The average battery life of an Apple Watch is 18 hours. 36 if you have it in low power mode the entire time. The Fitbit versa on the other hand will give you four days.
One of the biggest pills to swallow when switching from my Versa 2 to Apple Watch was the severe drop in battery life.
I charge my ultra occasionally, but it’s not really an issue. I put on a fast charger before I have a shower and it’s never been anything I ever worry about. It never runs out of battery.
I have never been so glad that I talked myself out of buying the new iPhone this year! Siri is the primary input method I use for my iPhone. I would say I make around 20-30 vocal requests a day. It will be so nice to be able to do things like create a meeting on a calendar with a conversation instead of having to frame the request in a single sentence! I hope they do this rollout well.
I’ve seen that one suggested but it doesn’t seem to employ LLMs to filter news down to what I want to read. Though removing sensationalism is a nice feature, I don’t want my news feed to contain any sports, celebrity, listicles, etc.
I’d like to be able to tune that filtering using an LLM with optimal summarization, ideally.