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I'm new to iOS - just switched from Android about 10 days ago. I didn't move for Apple Intelligence, but it's a feature I've played with. - Writing tools are n
by jjice 2y ago
I'm new to iOS - just switched from Android about 10 days ago. I didn't move for Apple Intelligence, but it's a feature I've played with.
- Writing tools are neat, but I don't have much use for them. They worked pretty alright.
- Image playground is neat, but I haven't and probably won't use it outside of goofing around and showing a buddy.
- The new Siri is awful. I don't know the old Siri very well, but it's just not good. I had to ask it something like five times what time one of yesterday's football games was going to be.
- Visual intelligence isn't even a thing. I can't believe they're advertising it like it's interesting. It's just asking ChatGPT about an image (which the ChatGPT app already supports) or using Google Lens (which the Google app supports).
What I am impressed by is how much gets run on device. About half of the writing tools are fully on device and the image playground was running entirely on device. That was very neat to me. Tested by turning of all data connection and seeing what was unavailable (ran into this with writing tools).
I'm still super hopeful for Siri to use my personal context. I think that one is set for March 2025 in the US. If they can pull that off, that will be the most valuable personal use case of AI for me so far. If I can just ask "When does my flight leave?" and it can immediately know I'm talking about my flight next week to visit family for the holidays and either use the email or my calendar to pull it, that's just incredibly neat to me.
Other than that, I've been enjoying the iPhone and some of their other machine learning features that have been around before Apple Intelligence. Searching in the Photos app is blowing my mind. I think Google Photos would do that too if I had backed up my images, but have this on device on the iPhone is just insane. I can't believe all of y'all have had this for years.
- criddell 2y agoHave you played with Shortcuts yet? That's the one iOS (and I suposed iPadOS and macOS) feature that simultaneously makes me very happy and infuriates me. It's so satisfying to get something working, but it's usually a pretty frustrating experience getting there.
- jjice 2y agoI'm so interesting in Shortcuts and I love the idea of them, but I haven't found much of a personal use for them yet outside of a shortcut to a specific Google Sheet. That said, I love that Apple has made this a first party thing. Tasker on Android was a bit finicky (not a knock - it's gotta be hard not being the platform owner and dealing with so much different hardware). I want to have a use for them so badly! Everything I would've made a shortcut for back in my original iOS days (ended in 2014) are things they've added to the OS directly, so I really can't complain too much.
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- sureIy 2y ago> The new Siri is awful. I don't know the old Siri very well, but it's just not good. Yeah, don't buy into Apple's marketing, Siri is still crap. The only interesting thing that it gained is that it will usually work if you say "no actually I want that on Wednesday."