Comment by sytelus | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sytelus | Hacker News Reader

This felt like really let down release. I am usually the first one to upgrade iPhone no matter what but this year I felt no attachment to any of these "new" things. Just didn't cared at all.

The things I would have cared:

- Dual screen

- AR/3D photo/video features in phone

- Much better battery life

- Full satellite communication

- OS-wide AI features, massively upgraded Siri, AI-first mobile browser, auto-complete, spell+grammer check, rewrites

- Even more AI features: Better reader-mode, PDF mode, maps infused with AI, super-res videos with structure from motion, flower/bird/food/tree/everything ID, so on and on.

What's going on with Apple?

The 2020s were "Internet in your pocket" and 2030s should be "Super smart AI in your pocket". Apple product managers feel so completely out of touch.

For an apple user on HN, you're expecting them to act like Oneplus.

Apple doesn't (usually) do something first, but they often do new things well.

LLMs have been mainstream for what, nine months? They aren't going to go all-in on new LLM features that quickly. And if/when they do, it'll just be labelled Siri with new capabilities.

Satellite communications is incredible complex, and, I expect, difficult. Hell, for SOS you need to pause and point your phone in a particular direction. The scale just isn't there.

Spatial video was announced, which is exactly what you are asking for in bullet two.

Like, I don't get what you're saying. By the way, we're in the 2020s now. The 2030s are... ah, six years away.

Hmm, quite a few of the features you've listed are not only in the next iOS, but already in older versions and the current.

AR already exists with the lidar-enabled apps, maps is already AR enabled in landscape mode, 3D Video "spatial" recording was announced.

AI features such as sentence auto-complete, upgraded spelling and grammar are already announced for iOS 17, due out in a few weeks.

AI identification of objects is already present and links through to Siri knowledge for explanations/further information (e.g. what breed of flower, landmark, type of cat is this?)

Damn give it a minute. All this LMM/GPT stuff just blew up in the last 9 months.

3D photo/video features did come to the pro phones flower/bird/food/tree/everything ID is in the new OS, it identified a plant genus in one of my photos yesterday. Pretty cool!

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