1. Flat UI is the other side of Johnny Ive’s legacy—arguably an error as well, never corrected.

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3. Agreed that Siri stagnated, was surpassed by Alexa a decade ago, and even moreso by LLMs. However, the competitive advantage of Apple Silicon has panned out and continues today—e.g., using unified memory to run ML models, instead of requiring dedicated VRAM for a separate GPU.