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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
I mean, this feels like way more than usual and stuff that's pretty recent, right?
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Like the first Apple Watch Ultra isn't supported.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Um, like that, that's not something, right?
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Like that's really, uh, something's up here.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
And I, I think AI is probably the reason I assume there's probably some sort of Ram limitations here.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Um, there's also this interesting thing where there's like two tiers of Apple intelligence and you have to have enough Ram to get the better tier.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
Um,
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
But this is rough.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
I mean, listen, I personally, I bought an M1 iPad Air this time last year so that I could test the betas out.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
And I have to get rid of it now because it's not supported.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
And those, yeah, it was a few years old at the time when I bought it, which was a good deal.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
But...
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
You know, I expected it to last for a few more years because Apple is like famously good at supporting operating system updates for years and years and years.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
And it was this funny thing where, you know, Google and Android for the longest time were a disaster.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
and then even when they started saying, you know, when they started saying, oh, we're going to do five years, we're going to do seven years, it was interesting because the defense, you know, Apple didn't have these promises of, oh, five years, seven years, whatever.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
But it was like, oh, but they do it anyway.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
They don't need to promise it.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
They just do it.
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
And here it's like, oh, like, when did the Apple Watch Ultra come out?
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Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream
I don't... Like, it wasn't that long ago.