> and they've loudly and publicly announced that it will support other 3rd parties in the future. Then I don't see why people are defending the opposite statem

> and they've loudly and publicly announced that it will support other 3rd parties in the future. Then I don't see why people are defending the opposite statement, preemptively. > Buuuuut - what happens if/when the EU decides the DMA requires Apple to open up their Private Cloud and on-device models to 3rd party replacement? Literally nothing bad? If Apple implements all of these third-party models the same as their first-party ones, I think that would be awesome. People could replace Siri with Mistral and start getting useful results back instead of the same canned responses.