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Re:Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Crushing Entrepreneurs by grishka on Saturday October 29, 2022 @06:23PM (#33388544)
iOS is already feature-complete and has been for quite some time. No one would be especially sad if it stopped updating except for security patches, new hardware features, and bug fixes.
Re:Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Crushing Entrepreneurs by neongreen on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:37PM (#33390785)
I would be sad. Passkeys, built-in OCR, "Sign in with Apple", offline Siri are all from the past three years.

But also.. over the past several years I've grown to regard all new features as "god, _of course_ computers should be able to do that". So from my point of view iOS is neither "feature-complete" nor even "good enough". I'm annoyed that the future is coming much more slowly than it should, but I'm still thankful to Apple that it's coming.

One tiny example: "Lift object from background" seems like a gimmick, but in my head it's more like a completely natural feature that we just didn't have for whatever reason. For me, images are very naturally composed of _things_. All those standalone features like "face recognition", "dog breed recognition", "plant recognition", "lift object from background", "search by location" should just be one feature: the phone should see photos as collections of things in space, and it should know what those things are, because I know what those things are. Eh. One day we'll get there.