12.6M views · Jun 10, 2024 · 1:43:37 · 0 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2024
Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote introducing Apple Intelligence along with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11 and visionOS 2.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN links to specific segments of the keynote to back up claims about features like Passwords, Math Notes and the ChatGPT handoff.
Keynote confirming Windows sync for Passwords app
> Pointless if it doesnt have cross platform. As mentioned in another news article on the topic: > It also syncs with PCs via the iCloud for Windows app. * link and in the keynote itself: * this video
“Just watch the darn video from this morning, its only 7 minutes long”
Keynote segment on the calculator app
Just watch the darn video from this morning, its only 7 minutes long and you are using a device that is tailored for this very use case ha ha this video FYI they even purposely made fun of themselves regarding the calculator app.
“Starting at 01:36:09”
Keynote demo showing ChatGPT handoff
It certainly appears so; every demo they showed makes it very apparent when you’re taking the step of starting to interact with ChatGPT. Starting at 01:36:09: this video
“Jenny Chen demoed a graph that could be changed by dragging a slider of one of the variables”
Keynote demo of draggable graph sliders
It is true that in the WWDC24 keynote, Jenny Chen demoed a graph that could be changed by dragging a slider of one of the variables [0], but as you can see in demo in the article, graphs are dead – they do not respond to changing variables. Or maybe I am just doing something wrong... [0]: this video
The new features in 18.2 GA release are a total shit-show. I've never seen Apple software this rushed out the door before, probably to beat the end-of-year shutdown. Image Playground is full of so many bugs and weird UX patterns. - The app is called "Playgrounds". Weird, especially considering Apple already has an app called "Playgrounds" (full name: Swift Playgrounds). Fine, weird, and especially weird if you put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea what AI is or what Apple is building. - When you launch it, it has to download models, a process which took over an hour on my internet connection, but it gives you no indication the models are downloading except one informational popup when you first launch the app; nor the download's progress. - Instead, I was placed into the full app experience, where I was allowed to try to generate images. The generations would fail with an error. - However, the error is totally unreadable because its presented as a toast at the top of the screen, rendering underneath the dynamic island. All I could see was the first few and last few characters. - I've heard confusion from two friends (techy-bubble of course) on "why can I only generate variations on these four friends" Its because the list of people you can generate images of seems to come from the list of facial recognition targets in Apple Photos. Yup. None of my friends who have tried this pay for Apple Photos, so their photos aren't being backed up, their list of generation
