Got round to watching the Apple WWDC Keynote for this year. I have thoughts. Firstly, the good stuff - mainly I appreciated the opening 15 minutes or so that were aimed at performance and quality improvements across macOS, iOS, etc. This felt like a small acknowledgement that Liquid Glass brought many regressions, bugs and overall degradations in both the UI and the way things actually functioned across Apple devices. It wasn't a mea culpa or anything, but it was about as close as Apple gets these days. However, it didn't take long to move straight into the AI smorgasbord of features that Apple is once again trying to peddle as 'Apple Intelligence'. This time seemingly more intertwined with Siri, featuring an upgraded offline AI model of some sort to provide additional privacy. Everyone knows Apple is perceived as being 'behind' in the AI race; Google showed off a whole kitchen sink of Gemini-powered AI crap at their most recent Google IO event, most of which felt quite brazenly aimed…
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