I'm not sure where to put this post, so someone on the AppleVis team can feel free to move it.
This was my first time watching the WWDC keynote and I really enjoyed it! The audio description was a nice touch. I truly didn't realize how visual some things are at these events.
This is the first time I'm confident in a better Siri. This is something I feel they've promised for years, but this year I feel like Siri AI has a lot of potential.
What did you all think?
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Scared to hope.
I loved the consepts announced in this years wwdc.
but Obviously with last time's misstakes.
I'm scared to hope.
I'm waiting for Brandon butch to come back from it and tell us he played with it
and seen it hands on that it's not just a consept like last time.
But yeh if this happens,
it really will be INSAIN.
Missouri
Well you know the State model of them. Hope it happens, Have my 16 pro max, ready for new SiriAI. Long live cats.
Yeah I'll believe it when I see it
New Siri? Yeah right. They been saying that for shit, a long time. I've lost trust in this aspect. Siri still sucks now and they said we were gunna have a new siri a couple years ago. yet it still sucks.
Siri Apple Intelligence power by Gemini
Sad but true!
Google had to come and bring some help to apple, so apple could get out from the misery that apple has been stuck.
It should be name Siri power by Gemini. lol
Sounds like sprinkles on the cake to me.
We already have the cake, and the icing. I just cant imagine a better Siri making me go out and buy a new powerful fancy phone, even though I could easily do so. Put all that in something the size of my3rd generation SE with the same battery life and a physical home button, and I'm all in.
You're Never Getting a Home Button Again, and you Don't Need One
Hate to say it, but you will have to replace that phone some day, and there is absolutely no chance you will be getting a small phone with a home button again. The non max size is a bit bigger but still perfectly pocket-friendly. Honestly your best bet will be to get the new foldable one that's coming out this year because it supposedly folds to about the size of the discontinued iPhone 12 and 13 mini, which were basically a slightly longer iPhone 5. But it will not have a home button. It takes a sec to get used to the gestures that replace the home button, but you'll have to do it at some point because it is never coming back. And as annoyed as I was when they got rid of it, I no longer miss it because it didn't do anything I can't do without it. Honestly this many years after Apple stopped making phones with a home button I am genuinely surprised to see anyone still pining after it.
Re: You're Never Getting a Home Button Again...
Proud owner of an iPhone SE 2022 here. Honestly this many years after Apple stopped making phones with a home button I am genuinely surprised to see anyone still disregarding and disrespecting those of us who actually prefer the older designs with a dedicated home button, and touch ID.
While I cannot speak for others, I will gladly buy a brand new shiny iPhone, just as soon as Apple decides to fix all the bugs, quirks, and half assed features of VoiceOver for iOS.
Thanks for reading. 👋😊
We all have dreams.
I doubt that will happen either, but what will happen at some point is that iPhone SE will stop working. We've all got to except change at some point. It's up to you whether you do it now or in another couple of years, but either way even if you don't get whatever the current model is, whatever you do get won't have a home button. As for VoiceOver bugs, maybe they'll get fixed and maybe they won't. Android's issues are different, but it has plenty of bugs of its own, and they also don't have home buttons.
But to bring this back to WWDC, even though your second gen iPhone SE will be getting iOS 27 and should theoretically benefit from whatever optomizations are coming for older hardware, you still won't get any of the AI stuff which includes the new Siri. That's still exclusively for iPhone 15 and newer, and even then I think the more powerful version of the new Apple Inteligence Architecture might only be on the iPhone 17 and newer.
it's no good.
Apple is catching up, but catching up very slowly if you ask me. this would've been exciting if we got it in 2024, or even in 25 but no-longer. all the hype about an agentic Siri was just that, hype. It can read and write; its just that. cannot do any meaningful agentic task yet. compare this with gemini sparks. And interestingly, what they promissed in 24, in their contravercial demo, that ain't fully here yet.
I'm Cauciously Optomistic
Frankly I really don't care about Siri and AI in general, except as it pertains to accessibility. But in most instances I have found that I prefer Apple's implementation of new features to others, even if they tend to be somewhat behind the curve. Back in iOS 6 they released Apple Maps in an absolutely dreadful state, and since then they do their best to release new features in as complete a state as possible. Siri has never had the feature set of Alexa or other voice assistants, but what it does do has always been reasonably reliable for me. Because of this I'm optomistic that what we do get will work well. They really should not have announced this product two years ago if they couldn't deliver, but sometimes that's just how it goes. You've got something you think is almost done and then you hit a wall.
To summarize, there have always been products that have more features than Apple products. Android does, and so does Windows. Other AI and voice assistant products do. The reason I still use iPhones is that I know the features I do get will be reliable. That has been my experience for years, and I hope it will continue to be so. So when it comes down to it, I wish we got everything we were told about two years ago, but I'm sticking with Apple unless my iPhone becomes unreliable, or unless it falls far enough behind modern tech development that it is no longer practical.