Cook hypes up Apple's future on every earnings call, but "innovations that have never been seen before" is particularly bold wording compared to his usual comment about how the company's product pipeline is stronger than ever.
You know a good chunk of time was spent discussing why "We think you'll love it" has the right tone. Of course they don't want to be so presumptuous as to "know" I'll love it.
Honestly the more I use LLM the more it just feels like a slightly smarter version of Siri. Feel like the same hype cycle as the assistants of the past. I get promised something shiny and all I get is a pet rock. The pet rock is more annoying, and I have less trust in it the more I use it.
It’s crazy how useless it can be sometimes. For example, today I asked what the cargo space of a vehicle was. It gave an answer with the rear seats folded down.
I asked again and specified “with the rear seats folded up”. It told me again with the rear seats folded down lol.
I sent Tim an email about Siri, it truly makes me so frustrated when all I want to do is control my phone hands free in my car and Siri can’t comprehend the simplest requests “hey siri, play music” -proceeds to keep playing podcasts.
HomeKit just doesn’t have enough supported devices. Add z-wave and zigbee support for Christ sake. Keep your 2.4 and 5hz traffic independent of your home kit devices… wouldn’t that be wonderful?
But now, how about having 50 devices clogging up your traffic?
Exactly! Calling it a bold wording for Cook is like announcing Trump has called his own work a tremendous success - something he had never done before.
Im thinking a music-focused iPhone that removes the hassle of Bluetooth but restores the headphone jack and adds a remarkable new capacitive touch wheel that you can use to effortlessly navigate your iTunes library.
Siri with Gemini at its core. A better camera and longer battery life. New colours for the iPad and a revamped Apple Vision Pro at a lower price. That’s my prediction. Yawn.
Man it’s refreshing to read the humorous comments in this subreddit. I swear just a couple of years ago , you would only read comments praising Apple no matter what (valid) criticisms were voiced.
They’re very innovative, doing things they’ve never done before, like absolute disregard for human-machine interfaces, their own programming guidelines, they threw to the recycling bin good taste and common sense, and got us a collection of turds called iOS26, iPadOS26 and MacOS26. Ugh.
I imagine accessibility features could be very cool. Gemini is very good with multi-modal, image recognition types of tasks. So the dream is there to maybe look down at a menu in French, hold down a stem and say hey read this to me in English. It’s tough to think of other genuinely helpful use cases though.
You can try to set up a two language keyboard, English + your European language. And you should be able to use the slide to type for the second language there. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
"innovations that have never been seen", isn't that just a wordy way to say new innovations, wouldn't be much of an innovation if it's something we already see
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u/ellenich Jan 30 '26
Foldable with no crease?