Apple's Privacy Stance: The Latest Act Of Courage

Apple's Privacy Is Now Underwritten by Google and Nvidia. Let That Sink In. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri sounds great in a world where it's your choice, your hardware, or at worst a server sitting effectively next to the iCloud you're already trusting. It lands very differently when the honest version of the announcement is: we can't actually deliver the privacy we promised AND the capabilities we promised, people are already furious at us over the UI overhaul we aren't backing down from, so — here you go. I wrote a few weeks back that I'd be watching WWDC closely. Then The Information dropped the specifics before we even got there, and honestly it's more on the nose than I expected. Here's what we now know: when the new Gemini-powered Siri needs cloud compute, your query routes to Google Cloud, where it runs on Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs. Not Apple silicon. Not Apple's servers. Not even Google's own TPUs. Google's cloud,…