Please, Apple, Don’t Use Gemini This Way | One More Thing

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Does Google think we're all rich now? Because when  it's showing us what the new Android AI can do, all the examples are ways to spend your money  faster. I hope this is not what Apple thinks we want from the new Siri. Google announced new AI  and Android, and it's called Gemini Intelligence.

[00:00:18]And I'm sorry, I have to laugh because I know  we say that these companies all copy each other, but come on Google, you even copied the Apple  Intelligence name when you already had a name.

[00:00:28]But jokes aside, iPhone owners should watch  what Google is doing here because Google is working together with Apple. The new personalized  Siri system is being built off Google's Gemini programming. Gemini is the foundation of what we  could get in a future iPhone. And after what I saw from Google's video, unless you like ordering  a lot of food and concert tickets with AI, not much here is that special. Well,  there was one thing, the widget thing, and then there was also the green screen  thing. Okay, so make that two more things.

[00:01:04]But these Android updates are not even real yet  to test. What you see is all just flashy editing of what could become real someday. So, there's  no reason for us to trust this heavily edited presentation. It's no different than when Apple  gave us those big promises of what Siri could be designed to do someday with personalization.  and we're still waiting for that someday. Let's start with the example that Android users will  be able to take a photo of a concert poster and then ask the system to buy two floor tickets  to that concert. Now, see, in this example, we're not seeing the ticket app being opened. It's  supposedly doing this in the background. And we do not see the confirmation page before things are  purchased. I would think you need some sort of prompt to confirm before buying. And we also don't  know is this just going to take you to that one special app to buy the tickets or let you know all  the ways you can buy tickets. Let's switch to what you can do on the iPhone. If I ask for tickets  on Siri, I'm just going to get chat GPT right now telling me where to buy tickets. It's not doing  the job for me. But using Apple Music right now, I can easily pull upcoming tickets for any band I  like. And there are a few options of where to get that ticket. It takes me through to that website.  I could see this being leveled up into skipping some steps and jumping right to that sales page  faster with voice commands. So, yes, this looks realistic, like Apple could incorporate this  somehow. Okay, back to Android. If someone asks, "What is your ETA in a text message?" It might  suggest your answer by connecting to maps and seeing how far away you are from an event in your  calendar. Yeah, you're not seeing all that info in the Google example. They're not showing you what  it takes to make that happen. Right now in my Apple devices, I'm already getting a popup nudge  when I need to leave for an event in my calendar based on my current location and the current  traffic. The new twist here is this text chat suggestion. Now, that's more personalization.  I could see that as something Apple would add.

[00:03:07]for Gemini intelligence. We are watching a guy  ask his phone for a late night pizza spot. Yeah, we got that on Siri. It's done. I can ask Siri the  same thing in multiple ways and I get nearby pizza that's open late along with directions. Nothing  new here. Moving on. Google's presentation said that Gemini Intelligence is right now being  tested to do tasks for you around food and ride share apps, but all the examples were around  spending money. Take your class syllabus and put those textbooks right in your shopping cart.  Reserve a front row bike with a spin class app.

[00:03:41]But without live demos, it's hard to know what it  feels like to actually do these commands and what steps are needed to pull the trigger on making  the purchase. We get a little more detail in this example here. A user takes a photo of a poster  that advertises a coffee tour. You could ask your phone to use Expedia to find you a similar  tour and book tickets for up to six people. Now, here we do see that person would need to confirm  to continue the purchase, but the success in all of these requests just depends on how the apps are  working well with the assistant in the phone and the permissions granted with each app. I would  have liked to see more examples of an assistant helping me with reminders and tasks that are not  tied to spending money. Here is where the widget builder comes in. This is something that actually  has me excited. It's got a lot of potential. Think of it as vibe coding your own phone widget.  You can ask the Gemini intelligence to build a widget that shows you something very specific like  special weather data. Or another example was that you want to track a certain fashion item. Okay,  here we go shopping again, Google. All right, silly me. Sometimes I forget Google is a shopping  and advertising company disguised as a consumer product. But here's another example of making your  own widget for pulling up new recipes every day.

[00:05:05]All right, why go to a website anymore when a  widget can just pull up the answers for you? I know I'm being a little silly and sassy, but  overall, this is the kind of stuff I love to play with, too. This is a smart update, but it  has the potential to be a little buggy because it needs all these good sources of information to  pull from. Another aspect of Gemini intelligence shown off is something called the rambler. It's  the idea that it could clean up your dictation when you're all over the place and changing your  mind while you're talking. Here's an example. Hey, um, do you want to get lunch tomorrow? No, wait.  Shoot. I have a thing. Let's do Wednesday at Mario's. No, actually, um, let's do Amy's pizza.  And yeah, I will let you order the pineapple.

[00:05:48]I actually don't mind if Siri never gets this  because it is a robot assuming a lot about what I want to say and what I didn't mean to say. So,  I'm on the fence about that one. But in general, being able to speak in natural language is  the goal we are all going for here. So often, we craft our words very special when we're talking  to assistants. So, it was good to see Google do more in this space and also handle two different  languages at once or even just being able to program those widgets using natural language.  And I'm going to skip ahead here to another feature that I think will give iPhone owners some  Android envy, especially for video creators. There is this video recording mode where you can cut  yourself out to make it look like you were on a green screen talking about the images behind you.  That is something I do on apps like Tik Tok and it would be very cool to have that built inside the  phone itself. So, I will give Google some kudos for that. Google says these updates are coming  in the summer and we can see this in a future Pixel and Samsung phone. Next week, the in-person  Google IO developers conference might give us some realworld demos. Maybe then we will get a taste  of what is real compared to a marketing video.

[00:07:03]It won't be long before we find out what influence  Gemini has on the new Siri because Apple's got its big presentation in June. Let me know in the  comments what Gemini Intelligence you want to see in Apple Intelligence because it is starting  to seem like the same thing. I mean, did you see the new Android interface? It's all clear now.  But don't call it liquid glass. It's more like transparent plastic. Loves it. At least if all  of our phones are going to do the same thing, then we can all have encrypted text chats because  this week we learned RCS texts from Android and iMessage will be encrypted. So that's good.  Go update your iPhone software to iOS 26.5.