[atonse]

I think with MCPs and related tech, if Apple just internally went back to the drawing board and integrated the concept of MCPs directly into iOS (via the "Apple Intelligence" umbrella) and seamlessly integrated it into the App Store and apps, they will win the mobile race for this.

Being Apple, they would have to come up with something novel like they did with push (where you have _one_ OS process running that delegates to apps rather than every app trying to handle push themselves) rather than having 20 MCP servers running. But I think if they did this properly, it would be so amazing.

I hope Apple is really re-thinking their absolutely comical start with AI. I hope they regroup and hit it out of the park (like how Google initially stumbled with Bard, but are now hitting it out of the park with Gemini)

[_pdp_]

Apple already has the equivalent of MCP. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents.

[bloomca]

That's just App Intents. I don't think they lack data at this point, they just struggle how to use that data on the OS level

[mattlondon]

Do you really think Apple can catch up with and then surpass all these SOTA AI labs?

They bet big and got distracted on VR. It was obviously the wrong choice at the time, and even more so now. They're going to have to abandon all that VR crap and pivot hard to AI to try and catch up. I think the more likely case is they can't catch up now and will just have to end up licensing Gemini from Google/Google paying them to use Gemini as the default AI.

[atonse]

No I’m not saying Apple even has to build their own model. I’m saying Apple can build a stellar _product_ experience around it.

As others have pointed out, if that’s what App Intents are, have they started to integrate this as part of Apple Intelligence?

[mattlondon]

So what is Apple Intelligence then? Just using CharGPT for Siri's backend?

Bit uninspiring really isn't it?