John Gruber

To go back to the earlier question, there's the underlying stuff that really only Apple can do is provide the frameworks for the built-in system apps, Apple's own Apple Notes and Safari and Mail, and third-party apps to offer functionality effectively like an MCP for agentic AI.

And they talked about that two years ago.

That was the whole thing that they were talking about where you could just ask your phone, what was the woman's example?

When's my mom's flight arriving?

And it just knows to look in email and knows who your mom is and knows to look in email and knows that she sent you this.

Will third parties be able to use those APIs to do it?

And then number two, obviously that's going to work with Siri, Apple's built-in

AI.

But will the third-party stuff, and right now all we have is ChatGPT is that optional layer on top of that.

According to Gurman, Apple said at the time, and if you even look now, if you look on your iPhone today, that's called an extension, the ChatGPT.

There's only one extension, ChatGPT.

There are no other ones.

Presumably there will be others, at least two others, I would presume, Claude and Gemini.

don't see them working with XAI.

And I don't know who else is even a maybe on that list.

I also don't see them working with Meta, right?

So those are the only companies I could even think of who have a product of this scope and caliber.

But will those be willing

be able to access the same things.

So that if I choose, as a user, to use Google Gemini as a layer on top of Siri, will Gemini have access to everything in my Apple Notes?