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My Siri AI experience in iOS27
I think it’s fair to say Apple’s first few forays into the world of AI and LLMs have been far from smooth. The first iPhone marketed as “designed for Apple Intelligence” was the iPhone 16, released in September 2024. Quite a lot of the features demoed in that year’s WWDC were incomplete, and wouldn’t ship…
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Liquid Glass and the end of flat design?
I’ve always been a huge fan of the skeuomorphic design of the earlier iPhones, they seemed so quirky, and full of character. I loved all the little details, like how the reflections on the chrome volume slider would react and shimmer, as if light were really reflecting off as you moved the phone around. Or…
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Visual Voicemail is actually pretty great
Yes, I know. I’m sure some of you will be thinking this is a bit of a random post, as you double-check your calendars to make sure that it is indeed the year 2025. Don’t worry, I’m not going to start talking about fax machines and record players, but I wanted to share some recent…
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Not so smart assistants?
I really like using Siri to get things done when I’m not able to use my phone normally. For example, when cooking I can quickly add things to my shopping list as I’m using them, so I’ll remember to buy more the next time I’m at the supermarket. Or if I’m driving somewhere, I can…
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The Sum of its Parts
I recently started a new job, and one of the upsides is that my computer isn’t locked down into oblivion, so I can actually use a lot of the features that make the Apple ecosystem so great to begin with! Universal Clipboard now works properly, so setting up things like my HR profile was as…
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iPhone Size Comparison
With Apple’s recent announcement of new iPhones I thought it would be useful to put together a little post about the new hardware sizes and how they compare to various other models. Apple provides a very useful iPhone comparison tool but it only lets you choose three phones at a time. To make comparison easier I made a composite…
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