Where they are investing heavily is in some of the local on-device ML stuff which actually looks vaguely useful. And it's all standard classification, image processing and summarising stuff. All viable, not overhyped solutions. The photos.app contextual search thing is very useful already for example (even if it can't identify the difference between horses and cows very well).
Think of the standard hype/maturity curve. Apple know how to play it.
So to me this seems like a match made in heaven.
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Do you really just want to use the buttons? I can understand that could be the case but I never considered this.
Probably, but I don't use it, only use my car buttons/dial for controlling CarPlay. The times I've tried the voice control it got maybe 50% of the instructions correct, which was more distracting than the muscle-learned buttons/dial control, so I keep using what works.
If I was trying to use voice control, it'd make sense. But I don't, so it doesn't.
At this point many years of poor quality experience whenever I encounter voice processing is the matter. Happy to call me old, stupid, and bad at speech ... all are probably true. Still won't fix the frustrations I have for Siri, Tesla, Google-something, Bixby's button, and Alexa devices ... much less every customer service line now consistently apologizing that they didn't get that.
Carplay is leaps and bounds a better approach to gui/console in most cars. Much better than Subaru, Ford, Toyota or others can produce and there shouldn't be a voice assistant cost along with it.
2) person does not want to use Siri
3) therefore person wants to disable Siri
4) person also has a car and wants to use CarPlay
5) CarPlay will NOT work without enabling Siri
3 and 5 are in conflict with each other
Just don’t use it. Why is it so important to disable it? It’s similar to saying “I don’t want to use pockets, hence I don’t want any cloth with pockets”.
It really feels like you’re fixating a bit on this.
Since your have omitted “6/ person returns iPhone and happily goes on with its life”, I assume it’s the least bad option for you still.
If you really want the level of detailed control you’re about, take a custom rom on android. It’s more work but it’s possible.
They explained this in their post. Seems reasonable to me.
I don't get this, at least if it relates to my particular reply. Someone seemed to be having trouble understanding the reasoning of someone else and I tried to summarize it. Where's do you get condescending from this?
I also don't want side button only, this triggers most of the times I drop my phone onto the wireless charger in the car. Edit: Clearly I should have bought iphone SE, at least home button avoids that?
It doesn't make sense that I should enable it just to avoid it and still get accidental triggers.
Carplay does not need any voice assistance to offer the basics like maps and audio. Lock the whole thing for all I care without Siri enabled, but to be useless if I choose to run my phone without Siri? Seems stupid to me. The trade off here is worse compared to set and forget with just Bluetooth connected for maps and audio at this point.
For a real trade off I'd consider; How about something easy like a shortcut which enables Siri when Carplay is triggered and disables Siri when Carplay disconnects?
its not something i'd want either
but i see it could have a lot of potential benefits - especially on an iphone with multiple apps easily being able to communicate properly through this AI.
and of course it can provide awesome benefits for disabled people - making their device much more capable than before (in their hands)
honestly, I hope regulation allows sideloading and alternative apps sometime soon. We need to firewall our devices from the accelerating pace of data snarfing.
It is a very very slow game of legal Whack A Mole and Apple has enough money to buy the best lawyers and politicians.
However I now stuck on 14 with no app support or upgrade to 17 and loose jailbreak and firewall.
I missed the iOS 15 signing window.
Of all the evil behavior from Apple, I did not expect this to be the thing at least some users find to be the last straw.
Somehow the developer feels enlightened and has taken on the mission of saving Apple customers. Apple customers can be quite technically literate and want a platform that keeps the developers at a distance. This is the feature one of the key features.
No one can force you to have a smartphone to lead a productive life in the modern world.
I run a Silicon Valley based tech company and not having a phone has never restricted me from doing anything.
This is toxic behavior that stunts societal progress for money.
That is like a cult in that it exploits peoples tribal nature to lock them in to an ecosystem for the gain of those at the top.
I find that to be evil. I also find Microsoft, Google, and Meta to be just as bad if not worse, as well as all companies who emulate their behavior.
We should be selling users services, useful tools without restrictions, increased freedom, increased privacy, and increased defense against centralized entities that may put them at risk for profit or power.