My Takeaway of WWDC on Apples AI Strategy
So yesterday Apple announced their long awaited platform-agnostic AI strategy for all their consumer products. They already did that 2 years ago but did not follow through. This time, they might.
Capabilities
The short version is that new Siri AI features broadly fall in 2 categories imo:
- Chat with context:
In all kinds of places you will be able to chat with Siri as if it was ChatGPT. Consumers are familiar with it. And your phone has much much more context about you than chatGPT-memories or even Google Gemini, which also has a lot of context for consumers who gave all of their information about themselves for free
- Agentic
This one surprised me. Apple basically lets you vibecode shortcuts via its AI tools. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-apple-intelligence-in-shortcuts-iph78c41eaf8/ios This is almost like letting Opencode, codex, OpenClaw, Claude Code and the like just run CLI commands on your PC. I did not seem them going this far so early. And it’s not even only shortcuts, the normal chat interface gets interactions that are not read-only.
Selfhosted Privacy-first Alternative
Can my private on-prem setup compete with all this context Siri or Gemini have about our lives? Setting aside, if this is even desirable. I think yes, but it takes a lot of effort.
- You can easily deploy your own Ollama or llama.cpp or whatnot if you have the expensive electronics. Easy
- You can easily chat with this LLM using Open Webui, Libre Chat which are easy to self host. Also Opencode can be even more powerful considering its built-in CLI tools.
- Now comes the hard part. You’d have to build all of these tools. Granted, writing MCP tools isn’t hard. But keeping them updated and connecting to all of your equivalent selfhosted tools is. You basically need to have your email, your journal, immich, texts already be accessible via an open API or interface and then write tools for them additionally.
IMO this is all very important for businesses and organizations and institutions. But kinda too much to ask for for private people in their freetime.
The Selloff
Apple Stock sold off yesterday evening and today. Hard to say how much, the whole market did too. Idk what people expected. I know some people wanted the MACs with huge cheap unified memories to come for server racks as true B2B electronics. Ofc this was not going to happen. It’s a B2C company.
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