Apple’s revamped AI and Siri strategy signals a clear recommitment to its proven core business model: selling premium hardware and the high-margin services that power it.

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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Apple shifts AI strategy toward App Store and search-like platform MacDailyNews Mar 30   READ IN APP   Apple’s revamped AI and Siri strategy signals a clear recommitment to its proven core business model: selling premium hardware and the high-margin services that power it. The company acknowledges that its in-house artificial intelligence technology trails well behind leaders like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic, and others. With competitors advancing at a rapid pace, Apple faces no realistic near-term path to AI leadership. That acknowledgment is driving its new direction, which is expected to be detailed at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. Instead of chasing an expensive AI arms race, Apple is doubling down on its greatest strengths — delivering highly profitable devices and monetizing the services and ecosystem that run on them. Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News: ‎ Instead, Apple is pursuing a two-pronged strategy: embedding just enough AI into its operating systems to keep users from defecting to Android, while opening Siri and Apple Intelligence to third-party services. This approach leverages Apple’s hardware, makes its products more customizable and keeps the company in control of its ecosystem. A cornerstone of this strategy is the upcoming iOS 27 Extensions feature, which will let users install third-party AI chatbots beyond ChatGPT and run them inside Siri. This feature will have its own dedicated App Store section, effectively creating an AI App Store. It will be a marketplace of sorts for third-party AI integrations. A separate effort to use Google’s Gemini technology to revamp Siri and other AI functions allows Apple to offer in-house technology that’s usable and capable. But complementing those features with third-party offerings is the key next step. Apple can maintain sales of the iPhone and other devices while also generating revenue from AI-driven apps, via the App Store’s 30% commission. Apple will still need to offer its own services, both for marketing purposes and to provide a usable out-of-the-box iPhone experience. It’s the same approach the company has long used with built-in apps: Apple tries to make its offerings useful even when they lag behind rival fare. Moreover, the company needs in-house technology to enable the launch of new device categories: high-end AirPods, smart glasses, a pendant and smart home products. Delays to the new Siri have set back some of these plans. Apple’s own artificial intelligence software may still be subpar, but its chips and hardware run AI well in general. That dynamic shows that the company’s future probably remains rooted in hardware, not AI software and advanced large language models. ‎ MacDailyNews Take: Imagine the AI world as a vast network of superhighways where powerful AI “vehicles” — like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and others — race forward at breakneck speed, constantly upgrading their engines and capabilities. Apple isn’t trying to build the fastest or most powerful AI car. Instead, it has decided to own and control the toll roads that all those AI vehicles must drive on to reach users. Competitors can pour billions into making their AI vehicles faster and smarter, but without Apple’s roads, they have limited access to the massive, high-value traffic of iOS users. Apple, meanwhile, collects steady revenue from every trip while focusing on what it does best: selling premium vehicles (hardware) and maintaining the profitable highway system (services and ecosystem). This way, Apple doesn’t need to win the AI arms race which they lost long ago due to a lack of vision at the top of the executive ranks — it just needs to make sure every serious AI player eventually drives through its gates. ‎ Please help support MacDailyNews — and enjoy subscriber-only articles, comments, chat, and more — by subscribing to our Substack: macdailynews.substack.com. Thank you! Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by using this link to shop at Amazon. The post Apple shifts AI strategy toward App Store and search-like platform appeared first on MacDailyNews. Invite your friends and earn rewards If you enjoy MacDailyNews, share it with your friends and earn rewards when they subscribe. Invite Friends   Like Comment Restack   © 2026 MacDailyNews 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe