The Core: Apple;TLDR (June 12)
All the journalists usually leave WWDC on Thursday, which is why reporting slows down into Friday. The news flow always reflects that, which is why you get pre-written feature coverage and little that’s new. All the same, here’s what’s new today. Please subscribe to get it daily.
Apple’s Craig Federighi: Siri Won’t Be Your AI Girlfriend
This Mostly Human podcast is generating huge attention on the Apple exec’s most quotable line yet, but it’s all about AI that makes things better, he said.
This’ll be for iPads, right….
iOS 27 officially enables landscape mode in more of Apple’s built-in iPhone apps, including Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness, Health, Reminders, Home, Shortcuts, Apple Watch, Find My, Weather, Voice Memos, Apple TV Remote, and others. How will that fold out?
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Component price pressure makes Apple look cheap
Huawei is the latest smartphone maker to raise prices in response to the memory price crisis.
US Senators target Big Tech
The so-called American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is like a US version of the EU’s dreadful DMA. “Importing Europe’s failed policies will not increase competition — it will make it more difficult to do business right here at home,” Apple told MacRumors.
Here’s a new Apple ad
What’s the frequency, Siri?
This story has been effervescing on social media since the WWC keynote, and it’s a good one: Apple modified the keynote video audio so Siri wasn’t activated each time is said the word.
Why Siri AI is not, not, not Gemini
Apple used Google Gemini to help improve its own models, which means the AI in Siri AI is Apple’s own creation.
Connectivity Assist, your new best friend
New in Settings on iPad and iOS 27, the tool formerly known as Wi-FI Assist that is now Connectivity Settings lets you “use cellular data in addition to Wi-Fi for a more reliable internet connection.”
Twenty-one years ago today
Watch Steve Jobs deliver his acclaimed Stanford Commencement speech.
RIP David Hockney
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