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Keychain isn't cross-platform. Keychain doesn't have support for 2FA info or really any other fields other than username and password. Keychain doesn't proactively notify me when one of my passwords matches one of those turned up in a major breach. Keychain doesn't provide a good UI for viewing or modifying my login or credit card info. Keychain doesn't let me maintain a vault of credentials that is shared with my wife. Keychain can't store license keys. Keychain doesn't provide any sort of control over how it generates passwords. Keychain can't be taught to use the same credentials across multiple URLs (in cases where single sign-on is used). There are reasons why so much of AgileBits' customer base are macOS and iOS users, despite the existence of Keychain; Keychain is useful, but it's really, really, really basic.

Mr_Dog said:

I could be missing something here but how did you conclude that it was meant to show up in 2018?

Following the link to the referenced article answers your question quickly:

As Riccio described it, Apple had “the line of sight” for a 2018 iPhone X launch, “but with a lot of hard work, talent, grit, and determination we were able to deliver them this year,” he told Mashable.

wiggin said:

Is there a technical reason why improvements to Siri are tied to hardware releases, or is this just a way to obsolete older devices and drive upgrade sales? Certainly there are some functions, such as always-on, which would depend on the hardware and OS; but general improvements to Siri's accuracy and relevance of responses I would think are more on the server side of things.

If Apple it stuck only improving Siri with hardware and major OS updates, it seems they are sort of self-limiting Siri's ability to keep up with the competition.

It depends. You might have noticed that iOS major releases are timed with the release of new iPhones as well. Most of the improvements in Siri have been part of the new version of iOS, not the iPhone itself. The two cases where improvements to Siri were dependent on hardware were the 4S (the first iPhone to support Siri), and the 6S (the first iPhone to support the "hey, Siri" command while not connected to power). The reasons that new hardware was required for those cases should be pretty obvious.

"Boot Camp users [...] seeing distorted audio after a period of use" Wow, yeah. If you can *see* the audio, there's definitely something unusual going on.

So this makes a lot of sense. I was confused by why I was being asked to enter my passcode first thing in the morning, seemingly randomly. I had assumed that this was a bug, that my phone had been rebooting or respringing in the night (since that does seem to happen sometimes). Now I understand that this was probably in cases where I had gotten a full night's sleep (8 hours or more), and it had been more than 6 days since I had unlocked my phone with my passcode. I do wish that they'd expand that 8 hours to a more reasonable 12, so that getting a full 8 hours of sleep isn't the trigger for forcing you to unlock with your passcode, though; thanks to Touch ID being so convenient, I changed my passcode to an unguessable 20+ character string, and having to type that in first thing in the morning, still half-asleep, is a challenge that I really don't need in my life.