Personal computers + Personal assistants + Privacy = Profit

With Siri AI, Apple is revealing its insurmountable moat in the AI race. Siri AI puts the "personal" in personal computing. Now Apple only needs to sell me a personal computer for my personal assistant (Siri AI). I've been thinking a lot lately how the advent of the personal AI agent is a natural extension of the personal computer. Spending time with Siri AI all summer (since iOS 27 Developer Beta 1) has had almost no effect on my daily use of AI tools like Codex or Claude Code for work. But it has had an enormous effect on my use of AI tools in my personal life. The only time I reach for the ChatGPT or Claude apps on my phone anymore is to use their respective remote control functions to check in on some task on my Mac. While some may view the launch of Siri AI as Apple playing catchup with the frontier AI labs, my personal observation is that the frontier AI labs must now play catchup with Siri's unparalleled access to personal context. I suspect the latter is a much harder problem…