Siri AI

The setup is a contrast in AI strategy — cloud-resident agents you reach through thin devices, versus a phone that hosts a ~20-billion-parameter on-device model with personal context.

Readers who know Thompson's track record flagged the title as clickbait and questioned his 'consumers don't want to work' premise as cynical.

The flip: a Siri that actually works would be an Apple advantage, not its last stand — and the iPhone gained share in a quarter with no AI marketing at all.

The headline reads like a privacy standoff. The thread's correction: this is the Digital Markets Act, not GDPR — a competition rule about opening Apple's new agent interface to rival AI, not a data-protection fight.

A Google engineering manager pushed back on the easy 'they have the money, just comply' take: this class of compliance can mean re-architecting core systems with thousands of people over years.

And the requirement genuinely cuts both ways — handing any installed app agent-level control of your phone is a real attack surface.