> My hunch is Google never psychologically recovered from Facebook absolutely wiping out G+, and they have been on a mission to ensure nothing like that ever happens again.
Same for Microsoft with phones.
That's why Google and Microsoft are trying to use AI to crush us while Apple is like "I'm pretty content with how much money I make".
Ahh, acknowledged. However, please understand, they also have a massive AI division. It was led for years by John G. He just got ousted from the position. They're just not very good at AI in their own walled garden. It's not for a lack of trying.
Ironically, they're not "good" at it because they're fighting their own privacy and security features in IOS and MacOS. Siri can't do everything because there isn't a full pants-down mode for OS features.
"Siri, adjust my schedule to work in a 30 minute walk this afternoon."
"Siri, find a photo of a Koala, turn it into a cartoon, and make a logo for my Github project."
Coordinated actions are what we're looking for, but they blow through all of the app security walls. Even if Apple's software could act like this, I don't think I'd use it. If it could do these things, it could also do things like broadcast my private files to everyone in my contact list... etc.
We have to get dramatically more sophisticated about security with agents than we are now.
(Check the link to the MacStories article at the bottom to get a great overview of the capabilities.)
Also, Siri / Apple Intelligence is bound to the local processing power as everything is handled on-device - compared to other AIs that can use the computing power of a whole datacentre.
Apple web app support for home screen apps is better than Android PWA today.
Prime example being push notification support, where Android has random 10 minute latencies added because they don't want to fix the service worker startup problem.
> Apple web app support for home screen apps is better than Android PWA today.
No, it's not, Apple hides it behind a "share" link that had nothing to do with installing a PWA, the most incongruent UX in the whole OS, God knows why
Same for Microsoft with phones.
That's why Google and Microsoft are trying to use AI to crush us while Apple is like "I'm pretty content with how much money I make".