[acdha]

Thought exercise: has any of the money Apple has spent integrating AI features produced as much customer good-will as fixing iOS text entry would? One reason for paying attention to quality is that if you don't, over time it tarnishes your brand and makes it easier for competitors to start cutting into your core business.

[simonw]

Apple's photo search has been an outstanding application of on-device machine learning models for almost a decade at this point.

FaceID has proven pretty popular tools.

[acdha]

Good point re:photo search - I should have been more specific about what class of AI tool I was referring to. Photos seems like Apple's traditional approach of focusing on the user experience, whereas a lot of the “Apple Intelligence” features really seemed like they were shipped on the schedule demanded by Wall Street analysts rather than something the Apple product teams must have been happy with.

[ako]

Text entry has been mostly fixed with AI: dictate, transcribe and cleanup with Ai works well for many use cases, especially larger texts.

[acdha]

iOS 18.6.1 still frequently replaces common words like “that” with typos like “yhst” (yes, I've reset the keyboard settings). Dictation does work fairly well but I should not have to dictate text because their keyboard input has regressed from where it was half a decade ago.