Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul has finally arrived, delivering on the promise of making Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. TechCrunch reports the update is genuinely useful—yet it lands at a curiously deflating moment. By the time Siri shipped, after years of delays, the AI landscape had already evolved into one where agents can code, reason, create media, and handle complex tasks. Simply being a capable assistant, no matter how well-made, no longer feels revolutionary.

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