You still haven’t given a single example of anything that an app would be replaced by that any normal user would want, ever. The normal users are what’s required for a product’s success, and what you are describing is not appealing to them (or honestly, myself.) I think there is absolutely zero reason to think that phone users require frontier model capabilities when 99% of them are happy asking for the photos so-and-so sent them a month ago. Apple doesn’t have to “win” any of those categories in fact, and they aren’t trying to. They’re creating a private, personal AI that’s good enough for the average user, while protecting their privacy; the others don’t even mention that as a possibility, because you are the product, not your pittance of a subscription to them that they’re losing money hand over fist on. Your argument completely forgets that economics is a thing.

Check my post history.