Fordel StudiosApple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri assistant in February
What Happened
Using Google’s Gemini AI models, this Siri update will reportedly be the first to live up to the promises Apple made in June 2024, with the ability to complete tasks by accessing user’s personal data and on-screen content.
Our Take
This was promised in June 2024. We're now in Feb 2026. That's 20 months to integrate Gemini into Siri. Apple's integration cycles are glacial. (For context: most startups would've shipped this in 3 months, broke half the things, iterated twice.)
Gemini's fine—not best-in-class, but fine. They probably picked it for antitrust optics and Google's willingness to play ball. The real win here is task completion—if Siri can actually *do* stuff with your personal data, not just talk about it, that changes the game for privacy-conscious users. That's genuinely valuable.
But "if it works." Apple ships broken AI features all the time. So the stakes are: if this works, it's a template for how to integrate LLMs without shipping everything to the cloud. If it doesn't, it's just another broken promise and an embarrassing reminder that Apple can't iterate fast.
What To Do
Wait for actual user reviews in March before building Siri integrations—Apple's track record on AI features is unreliable.
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