Iām old enough to remember when there wasnāt an App Store for iOS and āthe SDK is the webā, as Steve Jobs put it. Then we got an App Store, and almost 2 decades later regulators pushed Apple to allow for third party App Stores, with Apple arguing that all kinds of bad things would happen to the users for security reasons. In 2026 there are alternative app stores and Apple is still a multi trillion dollar company.
Appleās struggles with interoperability are always decorated with privacy/security arguments. This I find very interesting because I reckon Apple as putting users privacy as a value proposition which is great. But under the DMA lens this privacy cannot be an excuse to thwart interoperability as a ādigital gatekeeperā, and I understand Apple is not so confident that allowing to share on-device data with potential equivalent third party solutions would keep their users buying Apple products, as customers like their iPhones but not because iOS is a secure platform.
If Apple decides to keep EU customers away from advanced AI assistants, well they lose the ability to monetize in the EU and, more importantly, they have the risk of allowing Google to come up with a competing product in Android. The monetization aspect is important here, I donāt expect to ever see iPhone mirroring in the EU ā but thatās only because itās a feature that canāt be translated to company revenue. Siri AI is different ā thereās no way those tokens are all going to be on device, and burning them costs money.
Edit to add: and this I write being firmly convinced that I would not trust any other company more than Apple to put agentic AI on top of my personal data.
Ouchā¦all caps post titles now? Yikesā¦
A competing Android product has been shipping for a couple of years. Features such as phone mirroring already exist on Windows. And will be shipping on android based laptops later this year. That news appears to have built a fire under Microsoft to get Windows back in shape.
In the US some of our strongest privacy laws deal with our personal health data, and AI has already been deployed in the healthcare industry and many others.
(Lately Iāve been listening to The Business of Health | KFF a podcast that discusses how AI is helping with everything from nurses changing shifts to suggesting which MRI scan a radiologist in an ER should look at first.). I already trust my personal data to one of the companies involved.
This is a tough situation for users in the EU. If Apple really digs in its heels this could take years to resolve. Good luck.
If any subject deserves ALL CAPS this should definitely qualify.
Grubber! We hear you. Every time I come to read this thread I feel you are still screaming 
I greatly, greatly dislike AI, donāt think much of it is actually useful, and rarely do I hear about or read a testimonial from someone that changes my mind.
Iām sure insurance companies and lack of privacy will ruin everything, but for now I think the most beneficial use of AI is in the medical field. Thatās truly where I can see it shine.
Looks like we are in the sweet spot of AI. The EU stops Siri because it deems Appleās concern for security inappropriate and the US takes away the Fable model because it thinks Anthropicās security measures are not sufficient.
I think the EU almost always gets it wrong. It and UK always want all private information for themselves but now they wonāt let Apple protect users from unsafe AI. They think it gives Apple an unfair advantage compared to other ai providers. Itās almost as if they havenāt heard how dangerous ai is.
Indeed, like this one:
From the Nature Machine Intelligence paper (Urbina et al., 2022): The authors state that they inverted their generative AI approach (MegaSyn) to reward toxicity. They specify that within 6 hours, the AI generated 40,000 molecules that scored above their threshold, including the exact structure of VX and other known chemical warfare agents.
I guess my only thought is āPeople are why we canāt have nice things.ā
Pretty horrific concept.
To quote Terry Pratchett from Thief Of Time:
āSome humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying āEnd-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCHā, the paint wouldnāt even have time to dry.ā