It doesn't matter how long you've written about technology, it's hard to predict how younger people will react to the updates and changes coming to Apple devices. Middle and high schoolers can be stone-cold when it comes to telling it like it is. I asked my 14-year-old to sit through Apple’s WWDC keynote with me and give his unfiltered take on what actually felt exciting – and what didn’t. His biggest reactions? Apple’s new Live Translation and updates to Messages. He lit up at the idea of real-time translated calls and texts, and thought the new phone screening and spam text filtering were actually helpful. That’s a win in teen-speak. While polls and Apple Pay in group chats flew under his radar, the option to customize backgrounds in message threads earned an approving nod. But the so-called Liquid Glass redesign? Crickets. He shrugged it off as “fine.” If the kids don’t care, will anyone else? Apple Intelligence, meanwhile, remains a mystery to him. He couldn’t tell what was an a...