Gap? Google has been the default provider for Spotlight queries for more than a decade.

It turns out that Apple Intelligence is a huge flop and that privacy is very very low in the list of importance for normal, non-HN users. The first thing for people is that it needs to be useful, which Apple Intelligence failed to demonstrate. Instead of spending all that time and effort on privacy, they should have went all in on competing with OpenAI and Google. Worry about privacy later.

/signed, an AAPL shareholder