I’m pretty sure I could knock up a decent Siri clone with got4o-mini, because I already did a bootleg Alexa to power our smart home stuff after Amazon removed the privacy controls. The only hard bit was the wake word.
Siri is currently so terrible that even something like Mistral 8b could do a decent job. Whey don’t they just run something like that on their own servers instead?
Does someone need to send someone an email to realise you don't need a huge frontier model to do basic tool calling like this?
Of course, Google pays them, but it’s still funneling info to a surveillance company vs. providing a private search.
If Kagi can do it, Apple could.
The more interesting question is how they're going to handle the 180 on all the talk about privacy.
But yeah you're not trusting Anthropic but Apple + Amazon
I dunno if thats even a win?
Why? What does Gemini actually do, that users actually use, that requires deep integration into the OS?
The same thing did happen to Apple Maps, but many people still default to google (though google maps is still significantly better at finding businesses). But Apple was humiliated by the Apple Maps rollout. Siri has just been a slow-burning joke that's only really useful for setting a timer or reminder.