> And none of it requires SOTA models,

I mean thats not actually true

It requires a shit tonne of context and also has a fucktonne of bad outcomes that people accept with chatGPT but not apple products.

> Know that my son has a test on Thursday and hasn’t opened the revision material since Monday. A gentle nudge, not a surveillance report.

That requires two bits of context that are hard to find:

1) that there is an exam. Ideally it'll be in the calendar, but who's exam is it actually? is it the creator, the invitee or owner of the calendar's exam

2) That certain actions on the web == revision. THat requires knowing what the exam is about, what the offical study material is, and more importantly cross account access to web history.

> Track our medication schedule and ping people (or me, if someone misses a window) without turning into a clinical monitoring tool.

How do you nonintrusive test that medication has been taken? How do you know its the right pills? How do you upload the prescription to do that? how do you handle power of attorney? How do you not get sued when people rely on it?

> Coordinate pickup times, grocery lists, meal plans–the sort of mundane family logistics that currently live in a group chat and three different apps.

Again sharing of rawe data to model to build a context. How do you screen for privacy? how do you make sure that talking about private stuff (like love interest etc) doesn't leak into other contexts?

> Better family e-mail, better event handling, better package tracking across household members.

Define better.

Look as someone who worked on AR/AI assistant glasses, its trivial to make something like that which works 80% of the time. You can't make it secure though, because it requires removing a bunch of privacy barriers that stop fraud and stuff leaking to third parties.

Its a really hard problem to crack to both be accurate, private and secure. You can pick one, at best.

The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build