You mean like how you have to pay extra on most streaming services to watch shows with no commercials... until they abruptly change their mind and tell you that you're actually paying for limited commercials?
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New Siri: Apple Almost Chose a Different Partner Before Google Gemini
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lol almost……they are both happy to keep each other a monopoly.
But they did make an effort to make it look real.
But they did make an effort to make it look real.
I hope they leave an option for us to turn this off! I do not want any of this crap on my phone, in my home, or in my life...
As I am not a big fan of google products too much, have not tried Gemini but after using other LLMs for few months now, Claude is most trustworthy and it is great with complex tasks, research and documents, where it has a gap is in image generation, where I use chatgpt, was really trying to make Grok work but that would be my third option from these but let's see what Gemini can do but privacy is a real concern. Overall it feels like Claude is becoming leader in business and Gemini in private use overall
Apple generates roughly half a billion in profits each and every day.
Billions of dollars spent on car research somehow looks a lot less important with that context.
Are they out of touch? No. A bit out of step? Sure. But with AI that may wind up being extremely helpful.
Sometimes being late is the very best thing that could happen.
Oh, and we should instead take the word of some old Gallifreyan who won't tell anyone his real name, pretends to have a medical degree and repeatedly gets his friends killed?
Didn't
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Big mistake. Holy crap is Claude Opus 4.5 so much better than anything else at figuring things out. Just incredible.
While I do use Claude for work tasks, I don’t expect to use Siri for any of that. If the new Siri AI is like Gemini, that is appropriate for a consumer facing assistant. I wouldn’t expect to vibe-code with Siri!
I mean you don’t have to use it. I don’t use Gemini on my Samsung Galaxy s25 ultra. I just wish the companies would focus on different things tho other then AI
Specifically, it was because YouTube wanted to monetize the app. The version that Apple had made did not permit ads.
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He’s not bad. He’s just misunderstood 🤪
Very good chance that Gurman is being needlessly sloppy and inaccurate here. Pretty good chance both Google and Anthropic were in a 'bake off' to get the slot for Siri. Intermediate wise Anthropic was winning placement in internal tools but for wide scale deployment costs matter (since likely have to pay to deploy at much larger scale).
It isn't like Apple went totally Anthropic and then last minute just started with Google. Both were likely in play and being evaluated. So it isn't particularly 'last minute' switch to a different 'horse'. More so declare the winner at the finish line.
If Apple is using Claude for software development then a decent chance XCode may get some 'Claude stuff' also at WWDC that has synergy with the internal stuff they use. All of that deployment internal by Claude (and porting to Apple servers) isn't necessarily wasted... just not directed at general end users. That is a sane move.
Google's solution may not be the 'billions' cheaper either if Apple is going to spill-over AI workload to Google Cloud for the general market. And Apple probably doesn't have hardware to scale Claude at the largest model footprint up to orders of magnitude of Apple product end users.
The greatly expanded scope Siri of OS27 is the more likely "very rocky launch" option. Bigger scope with larger feature set also likely comes with more potential bugs.
P.S. Other reports are that OpenAI just refused to port their stuff to Apple Servers. So they were 'out' of the bake off. But it adds to the evidence that there was a 'bake off' if Apple was asking multiple vendors to all participate.
It’s just the Gemini LLM, not Gemini chat. It will be running on Apple infrastructure even it is hosted in Google or other clouds.
Copilot does this already.
If you cancel MS Office365 with Copilot bundled into the price, you are then given the option to buy Office with the features turned off for less money. It is 'hidden' behind a "cancel the whole thing" button (as oppose to "turn off that stuff I don't want" button), so it may not be easy to do.
For the phones, more likely there will be a 'pay for more queries/features' button, but just have to pay for the minimums. (even if don't use any iCloud Drive 5GB ... still paying. ).
FaceID is machine learning. Zero usage isn't really happening.
Nope. This is up there with Apple should just do their own silicon manufactur directy and skipping TSMC (or anyone else). The training costs for Anthropic are large enough that over the long term Apple couldn't fund the purely internally all by themselves. Anthropic is not turning a profit on the current sized user base. If you make the user base substantially smaller that is just even more likely a permanent state.
splitting the training costs over a wide set of actually paying customers lower the individual costs to more manageable levels. Plus Anthropic isn't operating on Apple's privacy constraints. Neither is any other major player.
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That's a bummer. Echoing the feelings the Claude is MUCH better than Gemini for me, as a user right now. Looks like they know that too, if they're using Claude Code internally for their product developments. Hopefully this is just a speed bump and we get an Apple + Anthropic partnership eventually.
Maybe once the political winds change and Apple + Google get in the monopoly hot seat again.
Maybe once the political winds change and Apple + Google get in the monopoly hot seat again.
I'd be less resistant if it was Anthropic. I have zero trust towards anything Google.
Either way, I've always turned of Apple Intelligence, so it shouldn't affect me.
Either way, I've always turned of Apple Intelligence, so it shouldn't affect me.