William Gallagher:
Apple buries the fact that its Apple Creator Studio bundle’s generative AI features come with any usage limits, but the limits are real and now appear to be significantly less than expected.
Apple (via Ben Lovejoy):
The exact number of images, slides, and presenter notes that you can generate varies based on the complexity of the queries, server availability, and network availability. At a minimum per month, if used exclusively, you can:
Usage limits reset each month.
Steve Troughton-Smith:
This entire app used 7% of my weekly Codex usage limit. Compare that to a single (awful) slideshow in Keynote using 47% of my monthly Apple Creator Studio usage limit 👀
John Gruber (Mastodon):
Something feels off here, by at least an order of magnitude (maybe two?), that creating an entire good app costs way less than creating one shitty slide deck in Keynote.
Previously:
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Juli Clover:
Apple will soon do away with iTunes Wish Lists featuring movie and TV shows, according to emails going out to customers as of today. Apple says that people who still have wish lists should migrate items to their Apple TV watchlist before the feature is removed.
Each email that Apple is sending out includes a PDF with TV shows and movies that are on the individual’s iTunes Wish List. Apple says that users can tap on each link and then tap on the “+” button to get items to appear in the Apple TV watchlist.
Brian Webster:
Seriously? They couldn’t manage to code this up, I have to transfer each one manually? Really?
Benjamin Mayo:
is this finally the end of the iTunes Store app?
I hope not, because the Music and TV apps don’t really offer the same functionality for managing the content you or a family member has purchased.
Manuel Guzman:
I used to use it to keep a list of movies I was interested and then bought them when they went on sale. Pretty annoying that they removed this feature.
Previously:
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Zac Hall (Hacker News, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Slashdot):
Despite inking a deal with Google to use Gemini AI as the brains behind upgraded Siri, Apple is reportedly facing internal challenges in getting the final product ready for prime time. The reported delays could stretch into iOS 27 this fall. Apple first announced a more capable version of Siri in 2024; that update hasn’t shipped yet.
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg:
After planning to include the new capabilities in iOS 26.4 — an operating system update slated for March — Apple is now working to spread them out over future versions, according to people familiar with the matter. That would mean possibly postponing at least some features until at least iOS 26.5, due in May, and iOS 27, which comes out in September.
Gurman notes that while Apple hasn’t promised a ship date more specific than this year, the company has been eyeing iOS 26.4 around March as the release target.
M.G. Siegler:
Oh, you have heard this before? A half-dozen times just in the past few years?
[…]
As I see it, Apple has two problems. The first one is the bigger one: they need to fix Siri. But the second one is tangentially related to that quest: they need to plug the leak of detailed information about the Siri roadmap and timeline.
John Gruber (Mastodon):
If these features are going to drop in iOS 26.4, they should be in pretty good shape right now internally. If they’re in bad shape right now in internal builds, it’s really hard to see how they could drop in iOS 26.4. And once you start talking about iOS 26.5 (let alone 26.6), we’d be getting really close to WWDC, where Apple’s messaging will turn to the version 27 OSes.
Matt Birchler:
I’ve seen a few “how can it be delayed if it was never publicly announced?” posts on socials, and I genuinely wonder about these folks. Set aside these features were advertised as coming in 2024, and we can still mention that internal products are planned and delayed 👏🏻 all 👏🏻the 👏🏻 time 👏🏻 at companies, regardless of if they gave customers timelines.
Juli Clover:
Apple is still planning to launch the smarter, more capable version of Siri in 2026, the company told CNBC today.
Manton Reece:
OpenAI ships major new features multiple times a month. I don’t see how Apple can be competitive in AI unless they rethink how they work and release software.
Previously:
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