David Pierce

Siri has been so bad for so long that a lot of people, I think, happily use Gemini and Claude and whatever.

I talk to people every single day who have the action button on their iPhone to voice mode for some AI thing.

But the idea, like we're seeing here in the stream, that you can grab a bunch of files and right-click in the Finder and ask Siri about them

is so much better than pulling it all into Claude or ChatGPT or something else that it's like, these are the things where Apple might have a real chance to win because it is just so seamless.

And when you go to Spotlight and you just start typing and you ask a question, having it ask Siri that question and understand that you're asking Siri a question rather than looking for, you know, just a file on your computer

That's the kind of stuff where it's like, okay, if you believe in AI, this is the stuff where Apple has a real like user interface chance to win here.

Am I crazy thinking that's the stuff that's actually exciting if you're Apple?

Yeah, they can all...

Right now, as we speak, Craig Federighi is giving some kind of like technical explanation of how this all works.

And I think every time you say, Hayden, if it works, I just keep thinking, well, it's going to work because it works when Gemini works and it's just Gemini.

So I think to me, this question of like, to what extent is this just Gemini?

And to what extent is Apple doing its own thing, trying to run stuff on device like this mix of private cloud compute and on device processing and Gemini?

It is unknown enough that we should probably still be skeptical that it's going to work.

But just the fact that Gemini underpins it, I feel like gives me vastly more confidence than I had in, you know, their ability to do this two years ago.

Well, that was the only stuff we saw that was fully new, right?

It's like they kept doing these goofy demos that we've seen a hundred times before of planning a party or a trip or whatever, and it's like, okay, this doesn't happen every day, so this isn't very useful.

And we are fully aware that chatbots can...

Pulls together an agenda for you.

Great.

It is specifically highlighting files on your computer and having it go to a private server to give you an answer based on whatever's going on with them.