mattcassinelli

Surely everyone will know how to adopt App Intents starting February 23rd. Everyone is familiar with the framework and can make good, feature-complete solutions for the new Siri. *checks notes*

2026-02-09 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: the iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri is set for the week of February 23 and M5 MacBook Pros as early as March 2

Apple is going to begin a 2026 product blitz with the iPhone 17e, updated iPads and fresh Macs.

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Idk man as someone looking to put a newsletter out this looks extremely bad and not something they should be talking about publicly. Unless I can convert 6% of the entire portion of paying subscribers, I can't build a sustainable business month-to-month.

2026-01-20 View on X

Reuters

Substack challenger Beehiiv says it expects to nearly double its annual revenue to $50M in 2026 and now has 40K+ MAUs, including nearly 15K paying subscribers

Beehiiv expects to nearly double annual revenue to $50 million this year as the newsletter startup challenges larger rival Substack …

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Apps in Japan can now request interoperability with core technologies in iOS using this form - fascinating look at potential routes for alternative app stores if it expands https://developer.apple.com/ ...

2025-12-18 View on X

MacRumors

Apple makes iOS changes in Japan to comply with local laws, including alternative app stores and payment options, a new fee structure, and new default controls

Apple today introduced several changes to the App Store in Japan to meet the requirements of the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) that goes into effect on December 18.

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@EthanLipnik All the vibe coding apps with mini experiences inside. Apple couldn't tell what was going on or if payments were being made, so rather than disallow it they can make sure nothing nefarious is happening as well as properly monetize

2025-11-14 View on X

TechCrunch

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5

But Only for ‘Mini Apps’ Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple will take a mini commission from mini app developers iClarified : Apple Announces Mini Apps Partner Program With 15% Commissi...

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“One day soon” was six days later lol. If Apple can provide an architecture for Mini Apps to integrate with App Intents & provide real system features, all my concerns are gone and this will be incredible. I also like “Mini Apps” as an official name [Quote tweets his tweet thread from Nov. 6: “One day soon we're going to have to have a talk about making real apps. You are not making iOS apps, you are making mini apps within a single window..."]

2025-11-14 View on X

TechCrunch

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5

But Only for ‘Mini Apps’ Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple will take a mini commission from mini app developers iClarified : Apple Announces Mini Apps Partner Program With 15% Commissi...

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Apple just legitimized Mini Apps in a big way with this new Partner Program. I have recently been skeptical about these kind of vibecoding apps out of concern for platform support, but this is a massive step in the right direction: https://developer.apple.com/ ...

2025-11-14 View on X

TechCrunch

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5

But Only for ‘Mini Apps’ Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple will take a mini commission from mini app developers iClarified : Apple Announces Mini Apps Partner Program With 15% Commissi...

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*slaps the roof* this bad boy can fit so many app intents in here

2025-11-06 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal to pay Google ~$1B per year for a 1.2T-parameter Gemini model to help power the new Siri, which is on track for next spring

Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed …

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The main issue I have with App Intents is the inability to accept arbitrary input into a command, rather than a trigger phrase. Apple's approach is parameterization of actions and semantic matching, but it still (currently) requires key phrases and the application title/alternate names ("recognize music" for Shazam). Google Assistant has always allowed arbitrary input, where it figures out the intent and then which action to take. If Apple can gain the ability for their robust intent platform to accept arbitrary input, then it's game over and Siri is going to kill it...

2025-11-06 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal to pay Google ~$1B per year for a 1.2T-parameter Gemini model to help power the new Siri, which is on track for next spring

Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed …

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@JPFar It might not ever amount to anything “impressive,” but we'll all be using AI within all of our apps and have them all connected and take it for granted. And only Apple can build that, while not giving all the data and privacy (and benefit) to anyone but the end users.

2025-09-27 View on X

TechCrunch

How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :

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@Balolozano One thing that's super true is that all the value is piled up behind App Intents, and until that ships it is basically on you to dig into Shortcuts to uncover it. But that's why knowing about any of this is interesting, and the core of the delayed features of Apple Intelligence

2025-09-27 View on X

TechCrunch

How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :

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@Dimillian Jesus Christ that thread, what the fuck

2025-07-04 View on X

The Information

Sources: in 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google

Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps …

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“A revamped version of its Shortcuts app, which today lets users create actions such as launching certain features within apps or playing a particular playlist. The new version will let consumers create those actions using Apple Intelligence models. (This had long been planned for 2025, but delays may push it to 2026.)” Hell yeah

2025-06-02 View on X

Bloomberg

A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources say it is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B models via an internal Playground tool, and will name macOS 26 as Tahoe

but 4 major Apple Intelligence updates are on the horizon Sam Cross / T3 : macOS 26 leaks ahead of WWDC - or at least its full name does Craig Donaldson / Pocket-lint : WWDC 2025 c...

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Vibe Shortcuts will be dope

2025-06-02 View on X

Bloomberg

A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources say it is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B models via an internal Playground tool, and will name macOS 26 as Tahoe

but 4 major Apple Intelligence updates are on the horizon Sam Cross / T3 : macOS 26 leaks ahead of WWDC - or at least its full name does Craig Donaldson / Pocket-lint : WWDC 2025 c...

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“A revamped version of its Shortcuts app, which today lets users create actions such as launching certain features within apps or playing a particular playlist. The new version will let consumers create those actions using Apple Intelligence models. (This had long been planned

2025-06-01 View on X

Bloomberg

A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources: macOS 26 will be named Tahoe and Apple is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B AI models via internal tool Playground

Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC to show it's catching up to leaders like OpenAI and Google.

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The difference between how App Intents work in Shortcuts versus Siri has always been stark. The App Shortcuts Preview feature for testing phrases just doesn't work at all. Which has kept me skeptical about sprinkling LLM “magic” on top of this and it just working.

2025-03-08 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch

Apple Inc.'s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.

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I'm so goddamn excited

2024-05-31 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Apple plans to overhaul Siri with more advanced AI, a move that would allow Siri to take command of all the features within apps for the first time

- The feature will be at the heart of renewed Apple push into AI — Idea is to operate features within individual apps using voice

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Apple is straight fucking with me by putting Shortcuts in this graphic https://arxiv.org/... [image]

2024-04-10 View on X

AppleInsider

Apple researchers publish a paper on Ferret-UI, a multimodal LLM tailored for enhanced understanding of mobile UI screens

this AI can read your iPhone screen Mini Games / The Indian Express : Apple's ‘Ferret-UI’ AI model could understand what's on your screen in a new way Oliver Haslam / iMore : Apple...

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This is the ideal macOS desktop. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. [image]

2023-09-27 View on X

Ars Technica

Review of macOS 14 Sonoma: a better stab at usable widgets, an improved password manager, promising gaming enhancements, but fewer new features for Intel Macs

here's how to install it on your Mac Mahmoud Itani / XDA Developers : macOS Sonoma review: The most polished Mac experience yet Ali Salman / Wccftech : Apple Releases macOS Sonoma ...

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@Michael_Urwin This is actually my second screen - when I unplug the monitor, these are not shown and only my main monitor widgets show. If that's what you mean. My MacBook Air has its own widgets too

2023-09-27 View on X

Ars Technica

Review of macOS 14 Sonoma: a better stab at usable widgets, an improved password manager, promising gaming enhancements, but fewer new features for Intel Macs

here's how to install it on your Mac Mahmoud Itani / XDA Developers : macOS Sonoma review: The most polished Mac experience yet Ali Salman / Wccftech : Apple Releases macOS Sonoma ...

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Reddit is threatening to remove me and the other moderators of r/shortcuts unless we reopen the community, half of which are the original team at Workflow. [image]

2023-06-21 View on X

The Verge

Reddit suspended some moderators after they changed their subreddits to NSFW as “incorrectly marking a community as NSFW” violates its content and mod policies

Reddit has started removing moderator teams managing subreddits that switched the labeling on their communities to Not Safe For Work …

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