Indonesian authorities have officially banned iPhone 16 handsets in the country. Even handsets imported from abroad are now deemed illegal, after a disagreement over Apple’s investment promises for Indonesia. Apple originally pledged to invested around $109 million in Indonesia, but has only invested around $95 million so far. The ban also includes the Apple Watch Series 10, as Indonesia is currently refusing to certify new Apple devices.
Om Malik did some interesting math on Siri usage:
I looked up the number of active Apple devices. That number is estimated to be 2.2 billion devices... So 1.5 billion requests a day is actually far less than one daily request per active device.
Malik says he hardly ever uses Siri on purpose. And now I’m thinking about my own Siri usage, which is definitely more than once a day but basically only for alarms and reminders. So I want to know: do you use your phone’s assistant consistently? If so, what for?
[On my Om]
The redesigned Mail app will automatically sort your emails into four different tabs: your primary inbox with all your important emails, a transactions section for online orders, a promotions category for marketing emails, and an updates tab for newsletters.
The iOS 18.2 beta also adds more AI features like Genmoji and an integration with ChatGPT.
Apple has confirmed that iOS 18.1 — and with it, the first phase of Apple Intelligence features — will roll out sometime next week. There’s been fair skepticism that these initial AI tricks won’t really move the needle despite Apple’s big advertising push.
But I must say, after a few weeks of receiving summarized notifications, I’d never want to go back to the old way.
In the wake of recent departures, Apple’s hardware head John Ternus has bumped three people to vice president positions— Richard Dinh, Dave Pakula, and Donny Nordhues — according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today.
Dinh will head up the company’s iPhone road map. Ternus reportedly called Apple’s future models the “most ambitious in the product’s history” in a memo to the engineering team, Gurman writes.
