How Apple Will Win the AI Race: My Talk on App Intents & Apple Intelligence

How Apple Will Win the AI Race: My Talk on App Intents & Apple Intelligence

Last Tuesday, I gave a talk to over 300 developers at Deep Dish Swift about Apple Intelligence, where I made the following claim:

Apple will win the AI race

I’m an expert on App Intents, the API that powers the yet-to-be-seen features of Apple Intelligence – Actions and Personal Context. After designing implementations with my clients, and seeing the trends around AI-assisted coding, hearing rumors of an iOS 19 redesign, and seeing the acceleration effects of artificial intelligence, I believe Apple is skating to where the puck will be, rather than where it is now.

I’ll leave the thesis for the talk – but if you’re building for any Apple devices, you’ll want to understand how important App Intents is to the future of the platform:

Watch the 54-minute talk from Deep Dish Swift on YouTube Live.

Posts You Might Like

Preparing Your App for Apple Intelligence: My Conference Talk from NSSpain 2024
Preparing Your App for Apple Intelligence: My Conference Talk from NSSpain 2024
Watch my full presentation about Apple Intelligence from NSSpain – this is the perfect primer ahead of new features arriving soon.
Show More
Members-Only Podcast #4: First Dispatch from the New Studio
Members-Only Podcast #4: First Dispatch from the New Studio
Shortcuts news since the betas, my iPhone 17 feedback, going viral, Sky getting acquired to work on ChatGPT, and... App Intents
Show More
Tip: Create ~/Developer in Your Mac User Folder for AI Projects
Tip: Create ~/Developer in Your Mac User Folder for AI Projects
If you're building with a Terminal chatbot, make yourself a Developer directory to store all your projects.
Show More
Build from anywhere with Cursor for iOS »
Build from anywhere with Cursor for iOS »
Curor has released their iOS app, bringing the agentic coding platform to iOS with remote sessions or cloud agents.
Show More