Accessibility, AI rumors, and Google I/O

Apple has shown off the new Accessibility features coming in iOS 27, which did nothing to stem the torrent of rumors about what we’ll see in Apple Intelligence, but possibly did steal a little bit of thunder from Google’s peculiar mishmash of an I/O conference, on the AppleInsider Podcast.

It’s surely the only time of the year where Apple actually tells us something in advance about the next version of iOS. No guessing, no rumors, just straight information about the new or improved accessibility features.

Apple does so solely because World Accessibility Day is coming up, and not at all because Google is running its I/O developer conference at this time. Just as it’s entirely coincidental that Apple issued invitations to its own WWDC now as well.

We all use Google, but even if you’re not an Android fan, it used to be interesting to watch Google I/O. You’d always see some features that you wished Apple would adopt, for instance, but not this year.

This year Google I/O was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, if you spell sound and fury as “AI.” Nothing this year was biting at Apple’s heels, and that’s downright peculiar since Apple is relying on Google Gemini for its forthcoming updates to Apple Intelligence.

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