Greg Pierce

@agiletortoise
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I turn inputs into outputs. Make Drafts (indieapps.space/@drafts), and a few other things (https://agiletortoise.com) (he/him)

Texas, USA

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/116579199192995067

FYI, this seems to be fixed in the iOS 27 beta.

I just spent way too long try to figure out why the heck the audio playing on my iPhone was also playing on my Mac, even though no AirPlay was connected or anything…

...only to eventually realize I left it open and connected in Device Hub.

I even rebooted the phone, and it re-connected in Device Hub in the background.

Morning walk friends

I asked new Siri “What’s the status of my last Apple order.”

It successfully found it, told me it shipped, and was scheduled to arrive on X date. Very impressive, and pretty quick.

But I’m still chuckling because it then read me the tracking number as “W one billion, five hundred sixty two million, one hundred twenty six thousand, four hundred and nine”

My other Home Screen icons are cautiously holding Siri at arms length
Played around with Siri AI today. Pretty impressed. Things like multi-step event creation, with scoping in follow ups like “add a location for the Starbucks nearest to me” just work, with the right level of confirmation to inspire confidence and feel good. Including using in CarPlay for the conversation.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116743966721507356

My take? With the Foundation Model API integrations dropping for Gemini and Claude, Apple is going to keep treating third-party use of PCC primarily as a starter kit assuming apps can build on the API and swap up to another LLM provider when needed, or down to on-device models as they improve over time.

Which saves them the capital expenditures of scaling up the infrastructure.

The Origami project is some of the best sample code from Apple I’ve seen in years. Well thought out architecture, not just “look this one thing works” with a bunch of “you should handle this error” comments. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels/origami-crafting-a-dynamic-tutorial-for-apple-intelligence
Origami: Crafting a dynamic tutorial for Apple Intelligence | Apple Developer Documentation

Build interactive experiences with Foundation Models and Private Cloud Compute using multimodal prompts.

Apple Developer Documentation
Any one figured out the trick to make the Shortcuts auto-generation feature work with third party intents? I haven't seen it explicitly mentioned in any videos yet. Maybe that's only going to work with ones that fit in the AppSchema domains?
...and, why can't I say "Hey Siri, don't respond to ‘Hey Siri’ for the next hour”