The point is that once Siri is switched to a Gemini-based model, the baseline presumably won't be low anymore.
Siri’s functionality and OS integration could be exposed in a similar, industry-standard way via tools provided to the model.
Then any other model can be swapped in quite easily. Of course, they may still want to do fine tuning, quantization, performance optimization for Apple’s hardware, etc.
But I don’t see why the actual software integration part needs to be difficult.
That’s not the issue. The issue is that once Gemini is in place as the intelligence behind Siri, the bar is now much higher than today and so you have to be more careful if you consider replacing Gemini, because you’re as likely as not to make Siri worse. Maybe more likely to make it worse.
That gives them plenty of runway to test and optimize new models internally before release and not feel like they need to rush them out because Siri sucks.
Why do you say it doesn't solve loads of things?
Um if I ask an LLM about a fake band it literally say I couldn't find any
songs by the fake band did you type is correctly and it's about a millions
times more likely to guess correctly