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I doubt Google and Apple have the relationship of trust such that they could actually sell Apple an API that would be used to power a core iOS service.

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The article rightfully points out that Apple had Google Maps for several years on the device before launching their own maps service. I suspect that it will be treated more like search and not have the deep integrations with core API’s that their own eventual Ai offering will have. And of course when they do launch their own AI offering integration with the core API’s will probably be one of the big differentiators

I presume this is about a contract around something deeper than simply having another app, otherwise they could just build the app - no contract involved.

I think that Google & Apple's trust relationship has broken down post-Google Maps.

> I think that Google & Apple's trust relationship has broken down post-Google Maps.

I think Apple's "trust" can be bought by a big enough customer, and Apple's continued interaction with Google's privacy-destroying search engine seems to demonstrate that nicely.

I think it will be like middle-ware one choices their model by radio button. Apple may have a default model that they manage but a user could switch to various models based on whim.

Apple doesn't typically offer options to the user like this. They'll decide if what's best for the given context.

You mean like search under safari?

That was before Steve declared war on Android. Not sure it matters anymore, though.

You mean like search?

If the models are running on-device, once the model files are delivered then it really doesn't matter what Google would do.

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