I was struck in the keynote by the live demos, which did not hide the lag between initiating various AI tasks and getting the answer back. In the real world, I don’t think the lags are necessarily a problem, but they really stood out in a (pre-recorded) live demo when there was nothing but a guy standing there in silence waiting for a task to complete. I imagine Apple felt the pressure to show a real demo, rather than overpromising something that didn’t quite exist.
Related note: I found myself growing annoyed at Google a few times today when I entered straightforward searches that would have returned answers almost instantaneously a year or two ago, but today I needed to wait for the AI answer to appear first.
Yes, normal searches are often better. Still like the Gemini answers – I put Perplexity in another browser for search but mostly find myself switching to Safari for more normal searches. And even in Gemini I very often prefer to read the linked articles as they tell more about how reliable the info is. (DuckDuckGo let you avoid the AI, but it was not so good earlier so most often use Google anyway, even if it is not so good.) AI can be good but it often feels like it is needing more help than me.
I can’t speak to these particular things, but tweaking small stuff is quite a lot of what Apple talked about in the keynote. So hopefully you will get some of what you want!
As far as me using Mail, I suspect that ship has sailed. I’ve never liked it, and I doubt I ever will. It just doesn’t work the way I think.
Maybe this belongs in a new Topic (I searched “os27 EU” and no results were found here for one; @ace please move if so or tell and I’ll try to delete and start anew).
I find some of the hundreds of nips and tucks to be useful but most not. Was not considering updating to 27 at all until I heard the “AI” part is no being deployed in the EU, where I live.
But I wonder how that works? maybe it was clarified in a developer session? ie, how can they not deploy it geographically? I have US based and EU base Apple Accounts. I have a VPN service. Will the components, for instance, not be included in the update when connecting from either an EU Apple Account or an EU IP? Or will the GB of data be shoved thru the interwebs pipes and installed on my devices but not be usable when logged in to an EU based Apple Account, etc?
I was fine with it for a while, but now I use Mimestream on the Mac. On the iPhone, the Gmail app is pretty good, though I’ve been testing Mimestream there too, along with other apps. There are many, many alternatives to Apple Mail these days.
There’s no way of knowing how Apple will prevent EU users from accessing some of the new AI tools until it happens. My suspicion is that it will hinge on the Apple Account specifying an EU country since Apple wouldn’t want to remove the feature from US users traveling to the EU.
Yes, now I remember I think you mentioned Mimestream before. I would likely use another app if it wasn’t that I need to know Apple Mail well as most of my customers use it. Maybe there is a scientific study out there, but believe something like 75-80% of Mac users use it. Then maybe 10% Outlook and 15% webmail and like 1-2% the other clients. I wish we had an outsider app like Eudora used to be that could really have made Apple work harder on their offering, but they have never worked too hard fending off contenders. Anyway it is good there are many options.
You can still do it, but you need to add udm=14 to the Google search query parameters. The easiest way to do that is by adding a customized search provider to your browser.
If you’re using the Customize Search Engine extension, set the Search URL to https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&client=safari&q=%s
If you have StopTheMadness, configure a Redirect replacement from https://www.google.com/search? to https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&
(You can also do this, without an extension in Firefox or Chromium browsers, but I don’t want to clutter this thread too much.)
