“Bloomberg reported in the fall that Apple was planning to pay around $1 billion per year to incorporate Gemini into the updated version of Siri, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter”
Google and Apple just love sleeping together. I imagine Apple is paying Google with Googles own money, from the $20 billion Google pays them per year.
Rare to see Apple admit defeat, first with ChatGPT and now this.
But what does it say about multi trillion dollar company not having the resources to build their own tool at a quality they always aspire to and what we partly pay for?
Apple truly is losing the coveted status it has held for long - first with the terrible iOS/MacOS/iPadOS 26, not releasing products they announce, releasing fashion accessories instead of updates that fix their software/OSs, etc.
So glad for the privacy and cybersecurity community that keeps people educated on how best to evaluate the tech you use and for the purpose it is used - the answer is almost always choosing alternatives that are not big tech because the products and tools that stem from the business models of these companies are more often than not born enshittified, and that’s a new low.
I don’t keep up with apple. What are you referencing with this?
It’s not so much an “admission of defeat” as it is a temporary stopgap allowing Apple to license existing tech while they sort out their own internal AI architecture and focus on on device privacy. As this is only a temporary deal it seems. They’re late to the party, but then again Apple’s always been late to the party. It’s kinda what their known for. Even though Siri has been around for what now, 15 years?
Be that as it may, I will be the first to advocate for Linux, and other non big tech solutions, but to those of us who are shackled by our professions don’t always have the luxury of abandoning proprietary software entirely. In that scenario, where the choice is strictly between Apple and Microsoft, Apple is infinitely more privacy respecting. As a matter of fact, I think there are two pieces of Apple software that I know of that are recommended by privacy guides. Plus, advanced data protection is awesome.
They have at least started pretending to be more consumer friendly recently. The M4 Mac Mini , is an absolute beast of a machine for an insane value at $500. It is hardly a fashion accessory when it outperforms workstations double its price. For anyone who still needs editing software to pay the bills, I would choose that machine any day of the week over a Microsoft product complement a personal Linux station.
The Qi wireless charger they said years ago they would release that could charge multiple products at once but they never got around it. Somehow, other companies could release it which I don’t understand.
You can look it up, there’s enough info on this.