The #Apple logo banner on apple.com has a distinctly Siri-esque shine to it today.

This being a Monday, I don’t have time to watch #WWDC, but I’ll be very curious to see if whatever Apple rolls out here fixes anything. #Siri is probably the most conspicuously underpowered product in Apple’s lineup right now, at a time when Apple is—supposedly—working on small wearable devices that do not have touchscreens and will, I assume, use Siri as their primary interface.

I have one such product already: a HomePod that I never use, mainly because I hate dealing with Siri. The fact that Apple is apparently upgrading Siri with a custom version of Gemini isn’t encouraging; we use #Gemini at work, and I haven’t found it to be nearly as capable as either #ChatGPT or #Claude. Still, Apple is not in a great place AI-wise right now, and the new #AI guy, Amar Subramanya, ran Gemini at Google, so I guess Gemini is the most obvious option.

Best case, Siri turns out to be like Apple Maps: a rough start, but improving year over year.

Worst case, Siri turns out to be like Apple Maps: even after 14 years of improvements, it still hasn’t fully caught up.