Some Old Expectations for the New Apple

In Nilay Patel’s Decoder conversation with Mark Gurman about John Ternus and Apple’s next big thing, Gurman describes something camera-equipped AirPods might eventually do: look at an email on your computer screen and help add an event to your calendar. And that was when he lost me. The email is already on a computer, and by all accounts of how computers have worked for the past decade, the software running on it ought to be able to add an event to a calendar. Introducing a camera seems like a roundabout way to get past the data silos I’ve been complaining about for years. Not that it wasn’t a good Decoder episode (I’m a regular listener), but it was a very mixed bag and I have… feelings about it, especially because a lot of the discussion revolves around finding Apple’s next huge business. But I am more concerned about the now than vague hypotheses–I expect something different from the devices I already own. And I also expect Apple to get its act together in many other ways. Another…

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