Apple showed its hand at WWDC. Siri now performs tasks using Gemini's reasoning and what it can see on your device. That is a real product. Here is what it is not.
Apple showed its hand at WWDC today. Siri now performs tasks: drafting emails, scheduling meetings, multi-step actions, using Gemini's reasoning and what it can see on your device.
That is a real product. It is genuinely useful.
Here is what it is not: everything about your life.
Apple's context loop reads your Apple calendar, your Apple Mail, your iMessage conversations, and what is on your screen. For many tasks, that is enough.
It cannot see your WhatsApp conversations. It cannot see your 20 years of chat history with Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Any data living in a non-Apple, non-Google silo is invisible to it.
Siri uses what Apple and Google can see. That is a meaningful constraint.
| Source | Apple Intelligence | Mandaire |
|---|---|---|
| Gmail / email | Yes (via Apple Mail + Google account) | Yes |
| Apple calendar | Yes | Yes (via calendar ingest) |
| Onscreen awareness | Yes (Screen Context) | No |
| iMessage | Yes | Yes (20+ year history) |
| No | Yes | |
| AI conversation history (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) | No | Yes (via export ingest) |
| Per-recipient disclosure mediation | No | Yes (deterministic Python) |
| User-controlled server storage | No (Apple/Google cloud) | Yes (self-hosted) |
| Cross-session memory ownership | Apple/Google-held | User-held |
Apple will frame on-device inference as the privacy answer. The framing is real: simple tasks stay on the device. Moderately complex requests route to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. But the heaviest reasoning tasks route to Google Cloud, running on Nvidia hardware. The model itself came from Google. Your personal data flows to Google's reasoning infrastructure for anything non-trivial. The reported deal giving Google AI prominence on Apple devices runs to roughly a billion dollars annually.
On-device is not the same as user-owned.
Even a complete context picture is not the same as judgment.
If Siri drafts a message for you, it drafts the same message regardless of who receives it. Your VP, your spouse, your investor: same draft, same framing.
Mandaire applies a per-recipient disclosure gate before any output leaves your context. The same request produces structurally different responses based on who is reading them. A health update, a financial situation, a relationship signal: each recipient gets exactly what they are permitted to see, determined by a deterministic rule engine, not a model inference.
Apple's Siri uses what Apple and Google can see. Mandaire uses what you have said across every walled garden and every AI, going back 20 years.
Apple's Extensions Framework, announced at WWDC, lets users choose their AI model: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or something else. Apple built the interface for swapping the reasoning engine.
The context layer is the other half of that sentence. A swappable brain is only useful if the brain persists when you switch. Apple holds the interface; the context stays with Apple. Mandaire holds the context. It connects to whichever AI you bring, and the history travels with you when you switch again.
Apple's Siri, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini: every one of them creates data Mandaire can ingest and reason over.
Anthropic now lets their agents learn by reviewing your Claude chat history. Mandaire reviews 20 years of inbox, every message, and every AI conversation you have ever had, across all four walled gardens.
More AI in the world means more history. More history means a richer Mandaire.
Mandaire is in private beta. Apple's Extensions Framework lets you bring your own brain. Mandaire is that brain, on a private server you control. If you want context that travels with you across every AI assistant, not just the ones Apple and Google can see:
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