Ask HN: What do people think of Apple's Siri?

Holding back may have been the smartest thing Apple could have done. Instead of racing to win a race, investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the process, they can simply pick the the model winners and integrate it into their existing platforms for pennies on the dollar... and shift that model over time if the winners change. Their hardware was already well positioned, as they had been integrating neural engines into their chips for many years, and people have been buying their hardware like crazy for that. They're selling shovels. So they get the upside, without the cost and risk of trying to win the frontier model race.

With what they announced for the changes in Siri, I'm betting a lot of average AI users will just use Siri instead of bothering with a stand alone AI subscription. They get Gemini, plus integration with all their data, all with better privacy than any of the frontier models are offering directly.