[matwood]

> It's strange to me that Apple would choose to disadvantage themselves by selecting Google as their provider as opposed to, say, Anthropic or even OpenAI.

The models are quickly converging to similar capabilities with particular ones being better at a particular task until the next release cycle.

> Thinking more cynically, couldn't Google, if they wanted, feed Apple an inferior version of Gemini, ensuring they stay ahead?

Yeah, that's not really how things work at this scale.