Apple Siri + Gemini in iOS 26.4: Platform AI Threatens Single-Purpose SaaS Apps
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iOS 26.4 ships with Gemini-powered Siri featuring on-screen context awareness and cross-app control. Siri can read restaurant info in Safari and make reservations, parse flight emails and create calendar events, navigate between Mail/Calendar/third-party apps for multi-step tasks. Apple paying Google ~$1B/year for Gemini on Private Cloud Compute servers. The cross-app controller threatens single-purpose "wrapper" apps and standalone AI assistants. However, expanded SiriKit APIs and Core ML frame