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David Pierce

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4964 total appearances

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The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

And it would be a good one, and people would like it.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

And I think where we get tripped up in how we talk about so much of this stuff is how we...

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

We put the image generation stuff next to the chat bot that's your best friend's stuff next to the take a screenshot of this thing and it will find the times and put it on your calendar.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Those are not the same software.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

But we talk about them the same because everything has gotten like lumped into this idea of just AI is everything to everyone at all times.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Yeah, it's completely meaningless.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

It drives me insane.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

But I think Apple is struggling with this too because AI is so buzzy that you have to call it AI in order to get anybody excited about anything, supposedly.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Even though I think, frankly, we made apps open faster.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Turns out to be pretty exciting to a lot of Apple users.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

But to then get to the point of saying, well, we just want this stuff to work now.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

But it's AI.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Like, you just wind up having to play this very challenging game, if you're Apple, that I think they just kind of didn't play correctly.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

I don't know.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Yeah, it's good that we're late on these things that we promised you two years ago and have since been sued over.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Yeah, Apple's ability to turn totally blowing this into a marketing victory, never not impressive.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Just mind-blowingly great.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

Can we talk about the new Siri voice for just a minute?

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

I have a clip of the new voice of Siri, which I actually think this is a meaningful part of the thing.

The Vergecast
Siri AI, Screen Time, and the rest of WWDC 2026: The Vergecast Livestream

The actual experience of talking to these assistants...