Apple Talks Siri Delay, Remaining (Siri Delay) Questions, Takeaways
Hello everyone. Welcome to a new week. We will begin this week’s updates with a look at Apple’s post-keynote press at WWDC. Specifically, we will talk about Apple’s comments regarding the Siri delay.
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Apple Talks Siri Delay
Back in March, Apple officially delayed a handful of Siri features that had been framed at WWDC 2024 as a more personal Siri. At the time, Apple did not give much of an explanation for the delay.
Here was Apple’s full statement:
“Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year.”
At the time, that statement came across to me as Apple has a workable product in hand because they wouldn’t otherwise say the features will be available in the coming year. This also led me to conclude that reliability issues found with a more contextually aware and intelligent Siri using on-device LLMs on iOS 18 was the reason for the delay versus the features simply not working.
As a refresher, the “more personal” Siri features that were delayed included:
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Interesting Notes and Tidbits From Apple’s WWDC Keynote
Happy Friday everyone. As this crazy busy week comes to an end, today’s update will have a more informal feel as we go over my remaining notes from Apple’s WWDC 2025 keynote.
To recap my WWDC analysis as found in the daily updates:
Tuesday: Major themes.
Wednesday: Four features that provide clear signs of where Apple is headed.
Today: My remaining notes from the keynote and event.
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Three Themes From WWDC 2025
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In today’s update, we will talk about three themes from the WWDC 2025 keynote. Two of the themes relate to items found in the keynote. The third theme is about something that wasn’t found in the keynote. In tomorrow's update, we will talk about some of my observations attending the keynote.
A few quick thoughts on the main takeaway from the WWDC 2025 keynote.
While Apple probably didn’t satisfy those who wanted the company to follow other Big Tech companies onto certain AI tracks, the announcements announced on the virtual WWDC stage were significant. In addition to unveiling its first universal redesign across its platforms, intelligence-infused features were sprinkled throughout the presentation in a multitude of ways. The frosting on the cake was a handful of visionOS and watchOS features that serve as great clues for where Apple, and the tech industry, are headed. Instead of an all-powerful, always talking chatbot that thinks for us while eschewing screens, we received proactive, spatial experiences that connect with us on an emotional level.
Liquid Glass Adds Vitality to the Apple Ecosystem
Alan Dye, Apple VP human interface design, was given the digital stage to unveil the largest redesign to Apple’s ecosystem since iOS 7 in 2013. One way to put that timeline in perspective: Above Avalon was still a year or so away from launching. The new design language, Liquid Glass, will define the way we use Apple devices for at least the next decade. There were signs found with a few iPhone features in recent years that a broader redesign was in the works.
If the iOS 7 design was about simplifying things
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Thoughts Heading Into WWDC 2024
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Apple’s WWDC keynote will be shown on Monday (1 pm ET) at Apple Park (and online). Today’s update will go over my thoughts ahead of next week.
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Thoughts Heading Into WWDC 2024
The setup heading into this year’s WWDC can be described as strange. There is an odd situation unfolding on social media and online that boils down to tech and finance circles talking up anything and everything related to generative AI, to the point of sheer pandemonium, while the masses have a more lukewarm approach to everything that has been proposed so far by big Tech.
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