OpenAI had it, they had the foot in the door with their integration last year with Siri. But they dropped that ball and many other balls.

Yeah, I was really expecting them to just continue the partnership that Apple announced when the iPhone 16/iOS 18 came out, but I suppose it's been pretty much radio silence on both fronts since then. Although the established stability and good enough-ness that Google offers with Gemini are probably more than enough reason for Apple to pivot to them as a model supplier instead.

I'm sure hiring Jony Ive to design hardware for them didn't help.

Yeah. Super disappointing. I may end up switching to Gemini entirely at this rate.