How Apple Can Come From Behind And Win The AI Race 🍎🤖 - - - Apple finds itself at a crossroads: while tools like Cursor handle complex, dozen-step tasks with ease, Siri struggles with even basic queries like identifying the current month. I've loved Apple products for two decades – from my first iPod through many iPhones and Macbooks, to the latest Apple Watch. But there's no denying that the company I've championed is stuck in the classic innovator's dilemma. Thriving in the agentic age will require dismantling much of what made them successful. The agentic age calls for systems where assistants, not apps, are the primary interface – reducing notification overload and delivering outcomes rather than features. Apple today ships their org chart: Messages, Notes, and Photos teams operate in silos, each reporting to different VPs with different incentives. This structure, tolerable for app-based computing, is catastrophic for creating a seamless AI experience. An agentic Apple OS would let a non-tech-savvy grandma simply tell Siri: > "Create an Amazon shopping list of presents my children and grandchildren might want for Christmas." > "Create three possible detailed itineraries with ready-to-book hotels and flights for a 3-week European trip starting in Paris this April." > "Send my granddaughter the most relevant notes I've taken on baking snickerdoodles." No more juggling between siloed apps. No more notification hell. Just outcomes delivered with minimal cognitive overhead. The urgency for Apple couldn't be greater. Meta, with its aggressive AI investments and lack of legacy software constraints, could emerge as the leader in agentic computing. Even hardware manufacturers like Dell (which builds billions of dollars of AI servers for xAI) could potentially leapfrog Apple if they built an operating system that creates a direct pipeline from user intention to outcome without traditional software layers. If Apple doesn't move quickly, they will be overtaken in defining the next computing paradigm – much as Microsoft missed the mobile revolution. ...