The author discusses Apple’s upcoming AI features in iOS 18, focusing on an improved Siri that will work better with third-party apps. He explains that Apple has been preparing for this by developing “App Intents,” which let app makers tell Siri what their apps can do. With the new update, Siri will be able to understand and perform more complex tasks across different apps using voice commands. The author believes this gives Apple an advantage over other tech companies like Google and Amazon, who haven’t built similar systems for their AI assistants. While there may be some limitations at first, the author thinks app developers are excited about these new features and that Apple has a good chance of success because of its long-term planning and existing App Store ecosystem.
by Claude 3.5 Sonnet
In my own opinion Apple won the Digital Assistant war quite some time ago. Google assistant is half baked garbage and always has been.
In fact, they just nerfed it yet again. Likely in some low effort attempt to push people towards their new Gemini project.
