I’ve never used an Android phone, and have been with Apple since iPhone 3G, but if I wanted to use Gemini, wouldn’t it make more sense to buy a Pixel?
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Wow, never saw this coming. That’s huge for Google!
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Apple couldn’t go with OpenAI - that’s a bubble that will seriously pop (Sep 2026 by my guess). Anthropic is close but not really for consumers. Deepseek is China and Grok is.. well.
Google have very quickly smashed it with Gemini under serious pressure from AI potentially collapsing one of its core income streams - search. But then again, they did AI long before anyone else so they have the R&D experience - not to mention the available core data to feed into Gemini.
The iPhone-Fold-powered-by-Gemini is almost here.
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Nice and not wholly surprising, I’d imagine more of this in the future as the fight for data, power and land continues.
FWIW, I actually quite like Google AI summaries in Safari so this sounds like a good thing.
I’d imagine it’ll last longer than the maps love-in in the early iPhone days.
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There is no real surprise here, as others have noted. It’ll be interesting to see how Apple tackle the privacy side of things.
There has been a bit more Apple News.
They have announced Apple Creator Studio for all those who make images, videos, or sounds.
But the interesting bit comes at the end. It would seem that Numbers, Pages, and Keynote are to become freemium. They will still be supported and updated for free users, but there will be an extra level of features for those who wish to pay.
To help users prepare presentations even more quickly in Keynote, Apple Creator Studio includes access to features in beta, such as the ability to generate a first draft of a presentation from a text outline, or create presenter notes from existing slides. Subscribers can also quickly clean up slides to fix layout and object placement. And in Numbers, subscribers can generate formulas and fill in tables based on pattern recognition with Magic Fill.
Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform will remain free for all users to create, edit, and collaborate with others, including Apple Creator Studio subscribers. These apps will continue receiving updates, with the latest versions adopting the beautiful new visual design language with Liquid Glass on all platforms, and supporting the new windowing and menu bar improvements in iPadOS 26.
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It’s not surprising though I do prefer Chat GPT over Gemini. Gemini I have dabbled with but they treat each chat separately and don’t recall previous chats in the same way as Chat GPT does.
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ChatGPTs memory of older chats is a bit scary sometimes but so, so, so useful.
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Oh it’s almost frightening but I prefer it. If I’m going to allow AI in I want it to remember what we have talked about.
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It’s the same with Gemini. They hit a certain memory limit and that means they can’t recall all the detail in the conversation, so start to get things wrong or jump back in time getting a bit confused.
With Gemini you can pay for one of the premium plans so this doesn’t happen, or alternatively, each time you finish a session, ask it to export the conversation to a Google Doc. Then, when you need to continue the conversation, start a new conversation and ask it to refer to the Google Doc - then continue from there.
Perplexity does this too, I’ve not used ChatGPT but that’s because I get perplexity pro for free.
It relates new searches to previous interests which I like.
I tried Perplexity but still felt ChatGPT was more my style, and I do like the integration into iOS (for now).
AI integration is the only thing making me consider a Pixel every now and then. Not necessarily for everything but at least one that can use every part of my phone (emails/texts/location) to assist me in life.
(And yes, I do think there should be privacy opt outs for anyone not wanting this).
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I am a delighted Pixel user and would recommend them. It’ll be interesting to see if iPhones get things like Gemini live, for example or if it’ll keep some features just for Pixel users.
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Recommend who?
Pixel of course. Best comms device ever invented.
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I’m pretty sure that, if there wasn’t a press release, no one would know that Apple is using Gemini.
In any event, it’ll be run on Apple servers, customised heavily and tightly integrated with iOS/MacOS. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets swapped out in a few years behind the scenes and invisible to the user.
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Gemini is already available on the iPhone via the Gemini app, it’s just not integrated in the way it is on a Pixel phone. In theory this collaboration will deliver much of the capability of gemini but better integration.
These will still be separate products, it’s not the whole Gemini setup, so Google can still add functionality and features that are specific to the Pixel series phones.
Pixel phones, of course.
I had a Pixel 6Pro but came back to iPhone.
I might choose pixel next time. They are nice devices.