Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
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Siri finally becoming competent just as the market shifts to full agents shows how quickly the bar is moving—“good assistant” is now a defensive feature, not a moat. If you’re building on Apple’s ecosystem, treat the new Siri as a baseline UX layer and focus differentiation on cross-app workflows and domain depth.
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