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Anyone who realises that AI would be ideal for this is going to make a fortune. "Send this photo to its-kostya" instead of "Open Photo app, click send, click the send channel, scroll down the list of names, click the one/s you want to use, click send if you can find it again."

We've inherited dumb a tradition of dumb procedural UIs which are effectively manual scripts that have to be repeated for each action.

There's been next to no useful progress on automating this. Siri looked like it was going to do it, but then it died on the vine. There's a very basic "Call XYZ" feature but the entire OS should have that level of accessibility, from Settings upwards.

Apple hasn't had a User Champion for well over a decade now, and it shows. There's the occasional Nice Feature™ - "Hey we need a nice feature for the presentation this year" - but there's no longer a Nice OS, and no one at Apple seems to have any interest in creating one.



Ah yes, voice assistance and the elderly... a famously compatible combination! :)




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