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Behind the scenes, Siri's failed iOS 18 upgrade was a decade-long managerial car crash
“My pet hypothesis is that Siri was Scott Forstall’s baby. He pushed for the acquisition of SRI or Siri and lead the integration of it into iOS. After Forstall was fired, nobody wanted it and Apple only did the minimum to keep it going as a feature in their products. There wasn’t anyone in leadership to push it forward.”
I recall Forstall as being a proponent, as well. However, a year after Apple announced Siri, I attended a talk by the Entrepreneur in Residence at SRI for the project. He related that Steve Jobs called him personally to express interest in Apple acquiring the technology and doing a deal.
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Apple may be trying to jump-start lackluster Apple Vision Pro sales
I don’t think the Vision Pro Fit app is new. The developer history in the App Store has version 1.0 as 1 year ago. The latest version was two months ago. In my App Store history, I installed it July 22, 2024.
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'Mythic Quest' season 4 returns to Apple TV+ on January 29
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Apple working out how to use Mac in parallel with iPhone or iPad to process big jobs
I suspect this is part of a strategy for “Apple Glasses or Vision (non-pro)”. The worn device is slimmed down by moving processing to the iPhone. A redux of how the original Apple Watch apps ran on the iPhone and Watch provided input/output. -
Apple bids farewell to Frank Casanova after pivotal 36-year tenure
I remember him from the late ‘90s as the QuickTime VR guy in the Advanced Technology Group—with longer, darker hair but still balding. I can recall the QTVR system extension appearing across the bottom of MacOS 8 during boot up. It is amazing that the same concept of freestyle panning in immersive video existed then yet so much lower rez, jerky, jagged, tiny window, and low frame rate. Makes sense he would become a leader with Spatial Computing.
