Apple Says No To Meta AI Chatbot For iPhones And That’s Hardly Shocking

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Meta and Apple were reportedly talking about an AI deal to run its tools on iPhones but was it really going to happen?

Apple is not interested in using Meta AI chatbot for iPhones and other devices. As per reports, the company is worried about Meta’s alleged privacy issues that can become a bigger problem for Apple as it looks to build a privacy-focused AI roadmap in the industry.

When we did hear these reports about Apple getting ready to work with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, eyebrows were raised, purely because of their history and ideological differences in many ways.

After all, on one side you have a company that prides itself on user privacy, while on the other end, a company that has a sketchy history with our data. So, when Bloomberg confirmed our doubts by stating that Apple and Meta couldn’t agree on terms for a deal, it was hardly shocking.

Not Meeting Eye to Eye

Privacy can’t be the only reason why these companies seem to have backed out of the deal. Tim Cook and Zuckerberg have taken potshots at their rivals, and we even see them competing in the mixed reality (XR) segment with Vision Pro and Quest headsets.

There was also the tussle of iMessage (blue bubbles) and RCS chats (green bubbles), where WhatsApp is the outlier (owned by Meta). So, when there was talk about Meta AI coming to iPhones later this year, similar to a deal with OpenAI for ChatGPT, most people expected things to fall through, and that’s exactly what has happened here.

Imagine the Meta AI chatbot running on iPhones, and Apple having no control over how the tech runs on its devices and what data it can access from the users. Nightmare would be understatement in so many ways.

Open To More Deals

You could say that OpenAI is hardly different from Meta but the deal has been officially signed, and Apple wouldn’t have done it without doing its due diligence on its data process and systems. In fact, Google was also said to be in talks with Apple for a similar deal, so it’s not like Apple is overly critical about the company and its measures but just making sure its side of the deal is clear and fair.

We’re yet to see how Apple plans to bring ChatGPT on iPhones which will become clearer when iOS 18 rolls out later this year. But for now, the company has shown its clear intent on working with rivals, as long as they can comply and abide by its policies.