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Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
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Apple loves to play dumb about this stuff. The EU imposes a pretty straightforward regulation regarding equality of access. Apple seems to come up with all sorts of "solutions" to this "problem", and each one never amounts to true equality of access. They could easily just allow users to decide "Do you want to give this app unfettered access to all your device data, including other apps' data?". Let users decide. 99%…
> There are 2 potential outcomes: either the sky really does fall, and there's a meaningful uptick in bad things happening to iPhone users, in which Apple can easily point the finger at the EC and say "they made us do this". Apple looks like the good guys who put up a good fight for their users, but ultimately their hands were tied, and they'll probably get the revisions to EU law they're so desperately fighting for.…
Then just click "no" if your phone ever asks you to grant permissions like this to a third party app, which should obviously be the default option. Or better yet, don't install the third party apps to begin with. For you, it will be as though nothing has changed.
For the people who want a bit of freedom though, their lives will suddenly get a lot better.
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As someone who doesn't use Android, they showed a lot of integration into the apps, which I think is where the real magic happens, and it's not something I can do with any 3rd party chatbots today (that I'm aware of). I also don't know that I would trust the other 3rd parties with the access required to pull it off.
If anything, having Shortcuts built-in at the OS level was a very long play that’s going to pay off.
And Intents
Re: Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
#414Uh oh
What is Google getting from this?
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#415Oh nice, maybe they'll finally make Siri learn foreign languages?
they can hardly imagine a world outside SV, let alone the US. I'm not holding my breath
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#416Very Apple-ish approach to AI catch up: wrap an external tool in a privacy architecture, embed into the OS and productize the orchestration layer. It will be interesting to see if the Private Cloud Compute + on-device routing can make third-party model capabilities feel like a first-party system without leaking user context to the model provider. If Apple handles the Google-Apple boundary right, this will be an elega…
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#417Uh oh What is Google getting from this?
There was a meme the other day that said: the US economy right now is 7 companies giving each other trillions. I think this that that pattern.
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#418I used to wonder what "apps" might become in an "App Intent-first" world. Bundles that provide data and capabilities to iOS and Siri? And perhaps libraries of UI components to display and interact with said data? But then, if that works really well, and gets strong adoption, why ever open the app? What’s the point of having navigation flows inside an app? Could one make entire apps solely dedicated to providing a set…
The whole idea of an app becomes a much more fluid and transient thing
Everyone can have their own “view” into the data
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#419It's strange to me that Apple would choose to disadvantage themselves by selecting Google as their provider as opposed to, say, Anthropic or even OpenAI. Doesn't this mean they'll struggle more to differentiate themselves from the assistant on Android phones? Thinking more cynically, couldn't Google, if they wanted, feed Apple an inferior version of Gemini, ensuring they stay ahead? As the consumer, this just sucks b…
> Doesn't this mean they'll struggle more to differentiate themselves from the assistant on Android phones
Realistically, does it matter? Most people aren't going to switch phone ecosystems over the assistant available on their phone's OS.
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Yes, there's a lot of cargo culting in web development. Many US based companies also do this for US visitors, which is absolutely not required by the GDPR and related regulations, because they don't apply there. The law states: > Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary: > These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, suc…
You're just acknowledging that intent!=effect, which is a primary criticism of these laws.
You’re shifting the goalposts somewhat, but the thing this misses is that the cookie banners are the least important aspect of EU data regulation. The principle of consent and of minimising data held has actually made a substantial different in European firms, mostly for the better.