Here’s a fun thought experiment: someone shows up and says, “You can keep all your Apple stuff, or you can keep generative AI, but not both.”
Okay. Well, let’s be honest. The iPhone is cool, sure. But it’s a piece of glass with some cameras and a locked-down ecosystem that gets more parental by the year.
Meanwhile, generative AI is doing my work. Summarizing dense PDFs, drafting awkward emails, refining business ideas, telling me which number is lying in Excel, helping me prep for presentations, mocking my lack of Python skills, and occasionally writing things better than I do.
As a first conclusion, I’d say that AI is not just replacing apps, but it’s replacing categories. Not “Notes,” but memory. Not “Reminders,” but attention and so on…
And sure, Apple will retrofit some AI into its keynote slides and call it Apple Intelligence, and it’ll be wrapped in rounded corners and privacy-first slogans. But they missed the wave. When the surf was up, they were polishing bezels.
So yeah, if I had to choose? I’d hand over the polished aluminum.
And keep the machine that talks back and makes me smarter.
