[bdamm]

You're misunderstanding how difficult it is to make major architectural changes to products the way Apple can. One of the ways to do it is to hide the architectural change as something else, something niche, and only when it has survived the fire of deployment there try to scale it up to the full market. It's actually quite genious, and you can expect more of it now that Apple's hardware guru is the chief.

I can't help but wonder if this agentic-via-accessibility angle is the result of this new leadership. If it is, it's a very good sign for Apple, because software and especially the AI gap is Apple's achillies right now.

[dwaite]

ML-related improvements to accessibility has been the trend for a couple of years now.

Changes which might not meet the quality bar to be a default user experience have a different calculus when they can be packaged up to be opt-in, and life-changing for certain people.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day also leads WWDC by a few weeks, so it serves as a taste of what Apple has been working on for the last year.

In terms of changes being led by a smaller feature, my favorite was night shift (which adjusted blue lighting at night) - which provided API months leading the first device with adaptive color adjustments from ambient light sensors.