Apple opens Siri AI to every app, and plans a fee for expanded use
THE SO WHAT
Apple opening Siri AI to every app — with a coming fee for expanded use — turns Siri into a metered platform primitive for iOS, macOS, and visionOS. If you build on Apple, you now have a powerful new intent surface but also a future COGS line; prototype the UX now and model the economics before Siri becomes a hard dependency.
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