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Subject: Here's what a 3.5 trillion dollar company with almost no R&D can do with iOS 18
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:23:20 -0000 (UTC)
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Here's the *best* of what a 3.5 trillion dollar company with almost no R&D
expenditures (but Coca-Cola-like advertising budgets) can do for iOS 18...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-4-favorite-ios-18-features/
*My 4 favorite iOS 18 features make the iPhone a lot better*
*and more fun; but there are three things I don't love*

1. Control Center is now a juggernaut
2. A built-in Passwords app is finally here
3. Messages feels more like Slack
4. You can design your own home screen 

A few more highlights (of which every other OS has had for years):
a. Mail gets categories
b. Calculator app becomes a math tutor
c. Phone call recording
d. Call transcriptions
e. Capture audio in Notes
f. Lock an app

The three things I don't love
A. No Apple Intelligence
B. Photos redesign misses the mark
C. Journal app is still iPhone only

This is what you get after an entire year of development from a company
whose advertising budget is very many times what their puny R&D spend is.