Hoping Siri gets as smart as my Gemini

I’ve bought six iPhones in my life and expect to buy only four more. It looks like the next two that I buy will come with Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence–but probably only if I buy the iPhone in the States with an American address. As a paying Gemini Pro user, I know something had to be done to make Siri a proper virtual assistant.

The WWDC shorts suggest much of the computer processing required to answer questions would happen on iPhones and other devices themselves, but not in data centres, where personal information is exposed to greater risk. But for the deep research I can do with Claude, I have to jump out into the cloud. I’m interested in how Apple handles those deep research requests while protecting them from outsiders. I hope Adrian Weckler has more insights on this issue after he returns from Cupertino. And I wonder if the only way to have personal intelligence on an Apple device bought in Europe is to install another AI on it.

That’s my iPhone 8 box with a freshly cracked screen inside, 29 hours from giving the phone to my daughter.