It’s fun to see developers share their first screenshots as they try running their apps on the iPhone Duo simulator for the first time… it goes from great to… utterly weird.

Quick update on my writing in public project: I received my first comment/feedback today, which triggered some small changes. I hope to get more feedback like this. As a reminder, this project is an article I’m writing about upgrading to the just-released iPhone 18 Pro Max.

Incoming App updates flow to increase soon

Tomorrow is OS 27 day! I’m excited to catch up on and test any updated apps related to Siri AI and Apple Intelligence. So far, my experience beta testing Craft has been mixed. Siri AI seems to have limited access to Craft content, especially with nested documents (pages inside a main document container). “Play” is a great one where it can summarize YouTube videos using Private Cloud Compute.

Reconnecting

This weekend, I had the opportunity to reconnect with my former university colleagues (1987-1993). For many of us, it had been 35 years since we last saw each other. We had a lot to catch up on. We all studied computer science and have all had careers in that field. For many, it’s a time of reflection and retirement. That’s not my case yet. I’ve been fascinated by several of their journeys, and I’ve noticed a shared feeling about artificial intelligence: it’s both impressive and dizzying, moving too fast, and we’re questioning what the next generation will look like.

This is the first year in a long time that I’ll gladly tell people to upgrade ASAP to Apple’s OS 27. Better Liquid Glass design, rock-solid stability, and noticeably faster performance? That’s enough to make me look like a hero. 🤣

Silver it will be

Alright, it’s iPhone pre-order day! I’m going for the “boring” silver color, with 512GB of storage, iPhone 18 Pro Max. The last time I had a silver iPhone was the iPhone 6, which was utterly ugly with the apparent lines for wireless connectivity. I think today’s iPhone are better looking in that respect. Also, the rounder edges really improve the look and the in-hand feel if my handling of an iPhone 17 Pro Max is any indication. Can’t wait for next Friday!

Typical Apple playbook

Live Rewind and Siri Recaps are Apple Watch Series 12-only features and fall under the Audio Intelligence umbrella. We can read people arguing about how creepy or not these features can be. I’m still pondering the question myself. I have a feeling Apple postponed AirPods Pro featuring Visual Intelligence because it wants to educate users and gauge social acceptability with Audio Intelligence. Visual Intelligence will have to wait.