They weren't unexpected, but they were still surprises — and they both leave us with so many questions: Google Gemini is coming to Apple Intelligence, and Apple Creator Studio is bring brilliant apps at a price.
There's actually been two different Google Gemini announcements this week, and it's almost as if Google is trying to piggyback on the one about Apple. For where the Apple and Google deal ensures user privacy, the separate Gemini announcement truly does not.
Nonetheless, it looks like Google Gemini is going to become part of our lives now — although it's also looking like we won't hear Apple speak its name ever again. Here's what's really going on, at least as far as the slow teasing out of news makes it look like today.
If you've listened to the AppleInsider podcast before, or you've just passed either host in the street, you have heard them longing for Pixelmator Pro to come to the iPad. Now it has, and one host is ecstatic, ready to pay this minute, but the other is much less sure.
That's because it's coming in the new Apple Creator Studio. If you already use that bundle's other apps, it's a more expensive proposition.
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Links from the show:
- Setapp Mobile EU app store, CleanMyMac Business both close down for good
- Google Gemini tech will be used in the all-new Siri after major Apple AI deal
- Google confirms that it won't get Apple user data in new Siri deal
- Gemini-trained Apple Intelligence will work like other LLMs, says unsurprising report
- Don't give Gemini your personal data, wait for Apple Intelligence-powered Siri
- Apple Creator Studio brings new apps, features, and subscription pricing to Mac and iPad
- Pixelmator Pro isn't dead, and is coming to iPad
- Pixelmator is dead, long live Pixelmator Pro
- Apple Creator Studio is a boon and a bargain — but is far from being for everyone
- Apple Creator Studio takes one more step to an app subscription future
- Compared: Apple Creator Studio vs Adobe Creative Cloud Pro
- Google will not be taking over your iPhone, Apple Intelligence, or Siri with Gemini
- iWork is still (mostly) free, but we don't like the trend
- First Apple Immersive NBA Lakers game available for free viewing on Apple Vision Pro
- Apple Vision Pro owners will get a great assortment of classic arcade games in VR soon
- Level up your manicure with the Apple Watch charger
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