Apple Intelligence, iPhones, and the rest of WWDC 2024

Jun 11, 2024 08:33 PM - 7 months ago 166278

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On The Vergecast: Apple makes its AI move, and each nan caller worldly coming to your phone, tablet, laptop, watch, and TV this year.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Jun 11, 2024, 1:33 PM UTC

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There were almost 2 different WWDCs this year. First, Apple did its classical level whiparound, detailing each nan caller ways you tin add worldly to your homescreen, share worldly pinch your friends, watch worldly connected your TV, calculate worldly connected your tablet, and more. In a normal year, that would person been nan show. We would person talked astir app icons for 45 minutes and gone home.

The 2nd enactment of WWDC was the Apple Intelligence show, successful which Apple began to unveil its AI strategy. We saw a batch of features and ideas astir really things mightiness activity — including a new and beautiful breathtaking imagination for Siri — but besides sewage a consciousness of really Apple is readying to attack this perchance disruptive caller category. We heard a batch of buzzwords! But besides a batch of ideas.

On this section of The Vergecast, we stitchery successful a location conscionable down nan thoroughfare from Apple Park to benignant it each out. We comparison Apple’s AI attack to Google, OpenAI, and others successful this space. We talk done each nan news from each nan platforms and talk why things for illustration RCS and a Control Center redesign could beryllium game-changers. (Here astatine The Vergecast, we emotion a customizable widget system.) We besides spell done nan features we’re personally astir excited to get connected our devices this autumn — and nan ones we couldn’t attraction little about. And of course, we talk Calculator.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started connected each things WWDC:

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