i do not think that just this one headline of an "answers team" being put together is indicative of anything by itself.
but, if you objectively look at the continuum of all the official announcements, the leaked information, the big premature announcement of AI along with the release of iPhone 16, the internal staff resignations, the managerial structural realignment of the various bits of AI within apple, then, its clear that there is no other conclusion than apple is in trouble.
something bigger than what appears to be happening needs to happen immediately.
im not a Tim-basher like so many people are.
he has led the company successfully be the trillion+ dollar company it has become.
but apple is clearly behind. some major shakeup is needed.
something even more drastic than future scheduled point updates to iOS 26 need to be delayed and scaled back in order to allow hundreds of more apple engineers to work on Personalized Siri (im kind of sure that iOS 26 will not have a lot of mid-term big updates, other than any progress in AI).
im a big believer in what apple has told us: that a personalized Siri is more useful to me in my everyday life than just what kind of questions i can get answered over the net which is already done well by google Gemini.
now days i am thinking of the announcement of jony+sam and the assistant type of product they are building.
maybe, just maybe, an iPhone and even a tablet iPhone is not enough. maybe the empire that iPhone has built for apple will in fact wither more quickly than i had been thinking.
it is, in the end, about how successful apple will be in how quickly and well it integrates its Apple Intelligence into the iPhone/foldable iPhone in the next 2 years.