A top iPhone app developer reacts to Apple's new Siri

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You've heard Tim Cook say it a million times. They're not first, they're best. In this case, they're two or three years behind. They wish they were one year behind, and that's historically where they are. They're pitching this local and private thing. I don't know if anyone would care or if it would change adoption versus Chad GPT or Claude or Gemini if it was like, we sent it to the cloud and you just have to trust Apple. Like, no one cares.

Ryan Jones has been one of the top indie app developers in the App Store for more than 13 years. He's watched new design aesthetics come and go. I don't like it. I'm going to say it right now, I don't like it. Played by Apple's ever-changing rules.

You expect for Cook, his App Store in particular, and that 30 percent cut it can take, sold

beloved businesses, and even won Apple Design Awards. Now he's building Flighty, one of Alex and my favorite apps for flight tracking. So who better to discuss Apple's latest updates from WWDC, the new Siri, and where vibe coding is actually headed?

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scoop. All right. Access, right? God bless. I'm Ellis Hamburger, founder of Meening, a storytelling studio for tech companies.

And I'm Alex Heath, founder of Sources.News, your home for scoops about the AI race. Welcome

to Access. Ryan Jones, welcome to the show. How's it going?

It's good. Been a whirlwind the last couple of days between meeting Apple people, Flighty fans, trying to figure out what all this means for Flighty and me as a user and the world at large with the AI wars, everything. Lots of thoughts.

It was good to see you, Ryan, at your dinner you do after WWDC every year. I feel like that's become the quiet power center of indie app development. It's always fun to pop into there.

We're not supposed to talk about that, so you're banned from now on. Okay. It's fine, it's fine,

it's fine. You've been blacklisted. I mean, I'm sure the guest list is pretty popping, though, because you've been doing this for longer than pretty much anyone,

I feel like, at this point.

That is weird. I was thinking walking around dub dub on Monday that I wouldn't say we're the old guard, but it is weird because I still feel like we're brand new. But