Not true. I don’t have the Music app installed and ambient music works fine. It does not play in the Music app, it has it’s own lightweight media player UI which looks almost the same but is separate from the Music app.
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"Useful" is misleading. It should be "useful for the big corps for entrenching you further into proprietary technology so that they can take advantage of you later".
But isn’t this already the case right now? In my opinion this argument is kind of backwards because the lack of (or access to) APIs is precisely what’s preventing us from having alternatives!
Siri is proprietary, closed source, big corp, etc.
Want an open source, community based, interoperable, fully local, etc. assistant/AI? It cannot exist in today's world simply because it requires what Meta asks for.
I dislike Meta very much but I refuse to believe that creating or opening up such APIs would foster „entrenching you further into proprietary technology“.
Instead Apple can’t even manage to implement speech to text that works in safari and can’t manage to make Siri not suck.