Comment by andsoitis
> But I don’t see why the actual software integration part needs to be difficult.
That’s not the issue. The issue is that once Gemini is in place as the intelligence behind Siri, the bar is now much higher than today and so you have to be more careful if you consider replacing Gemini, because you’re as likely as not to make Siri worse. Maybe more likely to make it worse.
Oh well that’s a good problem to have, isn’t it? Siri being so good that they don’t want to mess it up.
That gives them plenty of runway to test and optimize new models internally before release and not feel like they need to rush them out because Siri sucks.