Would you be surprised to learn there ’s lashings of AI - related news to talk about this week ? Probably not . You probably would n’t be surprised if the Macalope said it was all AI - mother .
First , there was Sam Altman awkwardly trying to inveigle Scarlett Johansson into being the vocalisation of ChatGPT . Johansson ’s reaction was very much“Who are you again?”Still , thing are go very well in the AI earth as Gemini is tell users toeat gum and rocksandHumane is for sales agreement . It ’s a actual enigma why Apple is so late to this awesome party but there are plenty of rumors aboutwhat newfangled AI have iOS 18 will have .
Anyway , we ’re not going to peach about that stuff . candidly , the Macalope is a little tired of blab out about AI . It ’s like we ’ve spent months talking about someone ’s wack - a - doodle uncle who go off the inscrutable end into cabal theories during the pandemic .
“ you may foreclose COVID by taking a tablespoonful of battery back breaker every mean solar day ! I did my own research ! Have some of my glue pizza pie ! ”
Yeah , countenance ’s blab out about iPhone rumor instead .
Apple made a big spattering with the M4 iPad Pros by making them almost implausibly thin . sure enough , some groused “ Who require the iPad to be thin ? ! ” Well , everyone who wanted it to be light , that ’s who . Now , if the rumors are true , it ’s ready to do thesame thing for the iPhone 17,making it thinner and probably sluttish by ditching the back glass in favor of aluminum .
As the world ’s world-class advocate of little iPhones over the last 10 years ( doing a bang - up job , thanks very much for require ) , the Macalope is at least fascinate by these changes . Maybe the Macalope is just talk himself into this as , despite his letter of the alphabet - piece of writing effort , multiple sit - IN , and subliminal propaganda scheme directed at Apple executives , it does n’t look like he ’s going to getanother iPhone miniskirt . What ’s a mythical beast to do ?
The advantage for those of us who favour a small phone are more related to surface area than thickness or weight . Apple implementing Reachability in iOS was far less a panacea than it was evidence that we were correctly all along about the problem with larger phones .
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Still , there may be a track forward through package . To forge a usable substitute for what you call a pocket-sized phone and we call a fairly - sized speech sound using one of those ridiculous freak you apply , we ’d need to reckon about cobble together a specific set of interactions , using iOS feature that already exist and some that are rumored to be coming in iOS 18 .
iOS widgets currently give you the power to put heavy icon on your home CRT screen that have the added welfare of providing information . Io 18 is rumour to be bringing even more customization options , including more flexible icon placement and the power to have blank blank space . If that spot in the upper corner of the silver screen is just too hard to make without gamble dropping your headphone in hot lava ( the Macalope is assume you ’re a vulcanologist here ) , put a thingamabob there or , once iOS 18 come , allow for it blank . you’re able to even just configure your screen with widgets down the far side ( whichever side that is for you ) and image you want to interact with down the nigh side .
That still leaves Control Center , Apple ’s annoyingly out - of - reach incredibly utilitarian tool access utility .
Apple locomotive engineer # 1 : “ Hmm , where should we put this affair people are go to want to habituate all the time ? ”
Apple locomotive engineer # 2 : What ’s the hard spot on the telephone for most mass to reach ? ”
orchard apple tree locomotive engineer # 1 : “ Who hurt you , Jeff ? ”
Even on his iPhone 13 mini , which has a relatively wanton - to - reach upper ripe corner , the Macalope has take to using a triple back tap to trigger Control Center . The Action button also make it easy to trigger the function you most often use , but it Control Center could still gain from easier access code .
Now the Macalope has to inform you that he lie a flake at the beginning . We are going to talk about AI , but just a little . Those aforementioned iOS 18 AI feature include several enhancement that could make interacting with your phone easy and quicker . The Macalope ’s not hold his intimation , but if Siri can make a large phone easier to practice , that helps .
Still , none of this addresses what the Macalope call “ pant feel ” ( no , do n’t exit the tablet , we ’re hold open it SFW ) . Big phones are simplybigger . The amazing thing about AirPods is how they took advantage of that piddling jeans pocket no one uses anymore . Apple shipped a product a lot of people already had a place to put . Large phones , on the other bridge player , have push a proliferation of tactical phone pants , those pants that have a special phone pocket on the thigh , because if your pants are n’t saying “ I have a great telephone ! ” it ’s such a pretermit chance .
Might as well have been bandoliers .
At the terminal of the mean solar day , does the Macalope need a slight iPhone ? Yes , please . And he can credibly find oneself a way to make it work .
Of course , a thinnerandsmaller phone would be the existent sweet spot . Just saying .
