Casey Liss

What they added last year... The first year of, quote, Apple intelligence was, for developers, nothing.

We had nothing that we could possibly do for iOS 18.

Last year with iOS 26, they gave us a lot of APIs that I think overall look pretty good.

Most developers I know have not had a ton of time...

to build with them, and I certainly haven't for the most part because Liquid Glass really took up a lot of our resources and a lot of our time.

And the one big one, obviously, that I did use was the speech transcriber API, which is great.

A couple of weird little things here.

If you've seen a podcast that uses the word billion in a sentence,

How the speech transcriber transcribes the word billion is 1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.

Whatever the number is, it's like a one followed by nine.

So you see this with no commas, no thousand separators.

So you see this one followed by nine zeros in the middle of a sentence.

It's hilarious.

Yeah, that's actually that's one of my longstanding gripes is like, you know, oftentimes I'm wearing AirPods when a message comes in and it will announce the message and it never knows what numbers are.

Even like it'll be reading an address to me and it'll read the it'll read like the zip code as like, you know, one thousand five, you know, and but the best is when it reads out tracking numbers from shipment notifications to you.

Oh, yeah, that's a long time.

It'll read through the whole thing.

Oh, my God.

Anyway, whatever part of machine learning or Siri is being used to announce messages to you in AirPods is really primitive, and I would love for that to get better.

That's separate.