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Comment by imoverclocked

5 days ago

> why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet?

What exactly are you referring to? Models do run on iPhone and there are features that take advantage of it, today.

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jonplackett  5 days ago

None of those features are in any way interesting though. Image playground is a joke, Siri is a joke, that generative emoji thing is a joke.

The AI stuff with photography sure, but that’s more like machine learning.

The photo touch up thing is… useable? Sometimes?

What is it you’ve been so impressed with?

  • barkerja  4 days ago

    This is available in iOS 26 to all applications; it's available directly to the user through shortcuts.

    I'm currently on the beta, and I have a shortcut that pulls in various bits of context and feeds that directly to the on-device model.

  • astrange  5 days ago

    The main features are text summarization, search, and writing tools.

    • jonplackett  5 days ago

      Yes, and these are all pointless.

      ‘Writing tools’ is there in the text pop up now instead of ‘look up’ even if you’re selecting text on a webpage. It’s just in the way and useless.

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  • smotched  5 days ago

    > why isn’t my iPhone doing any of this yet?

    > Ok its doing it in 4 or 5 products, but thats a joke.

    Not every AI product is a chatbot.

    • aydyn  5 days ago

      The joke is that it does it terribly, not whether it does it at all.

      Wow.

lxgr  5 days ago

Yes, but why do I have to open a third-party app to do these things when Apple, the company that primarily popularized the entire genre of mobile voice assistants, could very feasibly bake all of that into theirs?

I mean, the thing even lets me ask ChatGPT things if I explicitly ask it to! But why do I need to ask in the first place?

  • imoverclocked  5 days ago

    Excellent question.

    I don’t speak for Apple but certainly you can appreciate that there is a fine balance between providing basic functionality and providing apps. Apple works to provide tools that developers can leverage and also tries to not step on those same developers. Defining the line between what should be built-in and what should be add-on needs to be done carefully and often is done organically.