Casey Liss

So if you look at the phone and say, what would it look like if it was built for AI? Would it have like a beefy neural engine? Well, they already have that. It doesn't look like it's any different because they just make the neural engine better year after year or whatever. Increasing the RAM size, Neil's right.

That's something that's pretty easy to do, and it's pretty clear that they did that for Apple Intelligence. But honestly, I think... Even though surely this phone was not... When this hardware was being planned, Apple Intelligence maybe wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye.

That's something that's pretty easy to do, and it's pretty clear that they did that for Apple Intelligence. But honestly, I think... Even though surely this phone was not... When this hardware was being planned, Apple Intelligence maybe wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye.

So in that respect, the whole built from the ground up for AI is a little bit marketing spin, a little bit of truth in that we did make sure they all had 8 gigs of RAM. So I give it a pass on that.

So in that respect, the whole built from the ground up for AI is a little bit marketing spin, a little bit of truth in that we did make sure they all had 8 gigs of RAM. So I give it a pass on that.

It's not a completely bogus marketing thing, but it's also not true that when they were planning this phone, they were like, this needs to run Apple Intelligence because they didn't even have Apple Intelligence based on the rumors that we've heard of when this was... conceived in the three-year lead times or whatever on new phones.

It's not a completely bogus marketing thing, but it's also not true that when they were planning this phone, they were like, this needs to run Apple Intelligence because they didn't even have Apple Intelligence based on the rumors that we've heard of when this was... conceived in the three-year lead times or whatever on new phones.

But honestly, a phone built from the ground up for AI wouldn't look that different than the 16 Pro and the 16 Pro Max. I don't think we should expect any massive change to the SoC for Apple Intelligence, especially since Apple Intelligence, as we record this, is still essentially an unproven feature. Do people love it and they want 100 times more of it? Or is it just like, eh, it's all right.

But honestly, a phone built from the ground up for AI wouldn't look that different than the 16 Pro and the 16 Pro Max. I don't think we should expect any massive change to the SoC for Apple Intelligence, especially since Apple Intelligence, as we record this, is still essentially an unproven feature. Do people love it and they want 100 times more of it? Or is it just like, eh, it's all right.

I hope they make it better. Siri is a good example. A voice system is great and we take it for granted and we think it's an important feature and it should be there. But they didn't remake the entire phone around it because A, Siri wasn't good enough for that.

I hope they make it better. Siri is a good example. A voice system is great and we take it for granted and we think it's an important feature and it should be there. But they didn't remake the entire phone around it because A, Siri wasn't good enough for that.

And B, there are so many other things that we do with our phone that are not Siri that there was no reason to bend the entire phone around Siri. They did make the microphones better. They didn't make Siri better. They did add the neural engine to make it beefier and beefier. But like in the end, are we, were we previously using phones that were built from the ground up from Siri?

And B, there are so many other things that we do with our phone that are not Siri that there was no reason to bend the entire phone around Siri. They did make the microphones better. They didn't make Siri better. They did add the neural engine to make it beefier and beefier. But like in the end, are we, were we previously using phones that were built from the ground up from Siri?

Like, I think this is putting the cart before the horse as the entire industry is with the assumption that AI will be the most important feature on our phone. And we want the entire hardware design to be focused on that feature. Let's see how the feature does before we completely change the hardware design of the phone around it. And again, give it a three year lead time.

Like, I think this is putting the cart before the horse as the entire industry is with the assumption that AI will be the most important feature on our phone. And we want the entire hardware design to be focused on that feature. Let's see how the feature does before we completely change the hardware design of the phone around it. And again, give it a three year lead time.

So to help answer Sharon's question a little bit, we should link to Ricky Mondello's post about migrating password managers, migrating to the Apple password system and pass keys. And it's got some good advice about not trying to do like a Big Bang type of like, I'm going to go in there and change everything and transfer all my stuff that you kind of do it sort of the same.

So to help answer Sharon's question a little bit, we should link to Ricky Mondello's post about migrating password managers, migrating to the Apple password system and pass keys. And it's got some good advice about not trying to do like a Big Bang type of like, I'm going to go in there and change everything and transfer all my stuff that you kind of do it sort of the same.

demand paged version of it sort of slow gradual one so that's actually a good uh a good some even if you don't follow the advice in the article it's a good mindset to get into that you it's not like you're you're not missing some boat that's leaving and you need to get on it and it will change your life or whatever right this is pass keys are a developing technology i'm kind of in the same uh boat with marco in that i'm when they offer it i take it but uh as ricky will tell you lots of websites

demand paged version of it sort of slow gradual one so that's actually a good uh a good some even if you don't follow the advice in the article it's a good mindset to get into that you it's not like you're you're not missing some boat that's leaving and you need to get on it and it will change your life or whatever right this is pass keys are a developing technology i'm kind of in the same uh boat with marco in that i'm when they offer it i take it but uh as ricky will tell you lots of websites

uh that implement passkeys choose totally different policies for those passkeys than other websites because you can websites can choose to do whatever they want they can give you a passkey and then remove your password they can let you use a password and a passkey github uses passkeys as a second factor in a two-factor login so you enter your username and your password and then as a second factor one of the things that you can use is your passkey which is totally not the supposed intention of passkeys but technologically there's nothing stopping you from doing it so