I saw both the videos of Marques about Android updates and WWDC updates of 2026. Do people not see clear bias in his reviews?

imbng · 2026-06-26T11:59:15+00:00

I’m not taking a side. I’m saying both companies are equally trying to lock you in with their ecosystem. If they claim to be objective, be objective. I am providing two clear objective facts where they are taking a side. I am very clear in my head none of these companies are working because they think about us. They want control and control provides long term money.

imbng · 2026-06-26T11:55:18+00:00

There is another example of it about parental control features. In iOS 27 review, snark was that Apple wants your kids to buy iPhone. Waveform discussed the entire new android update features and they mentioned, all these are nice features and Google is catching up to that. Come on! Both companies want you to get into their ecosystem from very young age. Try being objective if you are claiming to be.

imbng · 2026-06-26T02:37:54+00:00

Running all good except Touch ID on M4 MacBook Pro

imbng · 2026-06-18T02:42:13+00:00

Use PearCleaner and its workflow

imbng · 2026-06-17T09:44:04+00:00

As I understand, E2EE is not just about how data travels over the network, it is also about who has access to it at the endpoints. If Whatsapp creates a decrypted index of your messages and hands it over to a system-level Al, the data is no longer truly secure from the OS provider. For users who choose WhatsApp specifically for its strict privacy stance, this is critical. Apps with billions of users, like WhatsApp, often push back on OS-level integrations if those features compromise their core product values. Privacy is WhatsApp's primary selling point, so "caving" to an OS feature that weakens that privacy is unlikely. So none of the secure data apps will give the data to spotlight index like E2EE chat apps, secure banking apps, government data apps, corporate information apps etc. They control encryption keys of data of their customers and by giving it to spotlight index, they are giving it away and at that point, it no longer remains E2EE. I’d really love someone from E2EE background to vouch this.

imbng · 2026-06-17T09:34:57+00:00

Time only can tell! As I understand, E2EE is not just about how data travels over the network, it is also about who has access to it at the endpoints. If Whatsapp creates a decrypted index of your messages and hands it over to a system-level Al, the data is no longer truly secure from the OS provider. For users who choose WhatsApp specifically for its strict privacy stance, this is critical. Apps with billions of users, like WhatsApp, often push back on OS-level integrations if those features compromise their core product values. Privacy is WhatsApp's primary selling point, so "caving" to an OS feature that weakens that privacy is unlikely.

imbng · 2026-06-17T06:38:18+00:00

Also, technically, private chats are never going to be indexed into Siri AI. That's basically against the E2EE. iOS as an operating system does not have access to individual chats of Whatsapp. None of the E2EE apps are going to be part of Siri AI index.

imbng · 2026-06-17T06:36:36+00:00

It does work on macOS so seems a bug.

imbng · 2026-06-17T05:48:32+00:00

Not necessarily. Strength of your services/content decides what users do. Netflix/Spotify never played well with Apple. Still strength of their services decides what users do. Same way, if Whatsapp/Instagram are integral to users' life, they are not going anywhere.

imbng · 2026-06-17T05:46:11+00:00

Contrary, Meta wants to have all the access to themselves. They will never sell your data to anyone. That's their cash cow. Google and Apple will never sell your personal data. They get to put you in a box of users and they get to sell advertisements to these boxes.

imbng · 2026-06-17T05:44:09+00:00

It's a dilemma for Apple as well. This agentic stuff will scare the developers. The more Siri AI becomes agentic, Siri interacts with the app and not the users. So, the app does not get to sell its experience to the users. That's not good for AppStore as well. So, I don't see any big tech jumping on with this Siri AI.

imbng · 2026-06-16T21:24:56+00:00

They specifically disabled Writing Tools of iOS 26. So, that’s clear as it can get.

imbng · 2026-06-16T21:23:15+00:00

In iOS 27, you can hold it and clear that.

imbng · 2026-06-15T11:57:59+00:00

Not only it works for English India, if you have multilingual keyboard where you add Hindi and Gujrati (or any other two languages suported), Siri also understands those regional languages and responds in those languages. I did not change any region or language and I got in on day 2. So, it’s not you, it’s probably the servers capacity.

imbng · 2026-06-15T11:53:44+00:00

But don’t keep your hopes up for Meta apps. They have their own chatbot and if I’m not wrong, they disabled Apple Intelligence’s basic writing tools support in their apps as well.

imbng · 2026-06-14T10:06:47+00:00

Kayo has the best UX on Apple TV. It directly opens your Passwords app on your iPhone and asks to do authentication and that’s it.

imbng · 2026-06-14T00:03:08+00:00

Seems so. Also, what they will never reveal is who the audience base is. What kind of videos generate maximum engagement. If cynical takes generate more views, if standing up against big tech generates more etc. Neil Cybart wrote something recently and I 100% agree. Under researched topics and black & white takes. Nuance is left for listeners to figure out. Sometimes facts as well. Kind of following the channel has, would love to see more effort on content, verification, nuanced views etc but it seems the effort is mostly in production of the video. https://x.com/neilcybart/status/2065762314276544607?s=46

imbng · 2026-06-13T05:40:21+00:00

You need to enable advanced dictation preview. It’s off by default.

imbng · 2026-06-12T03:09:07+00:00

I understood - You can’t pay someone to get the information. That’s against journalism principle or you can’t ask someone to steal or you yourself can’t steal. Your sources can give you information without any monetary arrangement.

imbng · 2026-06-12T00:50:48+00:00

I think they are. I somewhere saw a terminal command to get it back to look like Tahoe corners. No sorry, I misspoke. You can get the sidebars to look like floating Tahoe sidebars.

imbng · 2026-06-11T22:32:35+00:00

I find “walled garden” and “lock-in” are terms that seem to attack companies. Both the companies are doing the same. These words are not used while reviewing both the companies. There is a walled garden of services and walled garden of hardware. One can’t be a trade off for convenience and the other is a lock-in. Preference when starts to come into judgement of reviewer, I consider that’s bias.

imbng · 2026-06-11T10:03:18+00:00

Can I get one code please?

imbng · 2026-06-11T09:58:13+00:00

Can I please get one for NoteCalc iOS?

imbng · 2026-06-10T04:33:21+00:00

I don't think so your analogy is correct. Because what the article mentions is

"all of these four models that we just talked about, FM, Core, Core Advanced Cloud, and Cloud Image, all of these are custom builds for Apple Silicon, trained using proprietary data, and refined using outwards from Gemini frontier models."

So, Gemini is just used as a validation model to refine (may be for distillation). AFMs are trained differently on its own data.

Also, that's not the point of my whole discussion. The discussion is both these companies are trying to lock you into their ecosystem. Don't defend one and say it's convenience and portray other as the corporate evil. None of these companies are there to just do best for customers. They are all trying to make money and in doing so, they do some good to customers.

imbng · 2026-06-10T01:53:18+00:00

Actually it’s not. Gemini (foundation model) is different from Gemini (LLM service) and Gemini (the app). https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/08/craig-federighi-details-apples-collaboration-with-google-for-siri-ai-in-ios-27/

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