You ask Siri to set a timer while texting someone. It opens a new app instead. You ask a follow-up question. It has no idea what you just asked 5 seconds ago. You ask anything remotely complex. "Here's what I found on the web."
Apple just signed a $1B/year deal with Google to put Gemini 3 inside Siri and rebuild the whole thing from scratch under codename Linwood.
What's actually changing:
Onscreen Awareness: Siri reads what's on your screen and acts on it. No more switching apps manually.
Contextual memory: It remembers what you said earlier in the conversation. Revolutionary concept apparently.
World Knowledge Answers: Apple's own answer engine built in. No more blue links.
My question is: is this actually enough, or has Siri been so bad for so long that trust is just gone at this point?