{"id":408270,"date":"2026-04-24T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408270\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:36:18","slug":"perplexity-ceo-aravind-srinivas-gives-three-reasons-why-and-how-ai-does-not-matter-for-iphone-and-apple-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408270\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas gives three reasons why and how AI does not matter for iPhone and Apple fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PerplexityAravind Srinivas, CEO of AI startup Perplexity At a time when the tech world is obsessed with how artificial intelligence (AI) may \u2018disrupt\u2019 or replace our current gadgets, the CEO of one of the world\u2019s leading AI companies has a surprising take on the most popular Apple<\/a> product: the iPhone. Speaking on the This Week in AI podcast, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that the iPhone is effectively immune to being \u2018disrupted\u2019 by AI. Despite the rise of AI-powered pins, glasses and wearable devices, Srinivas believes Apple\u2019s three \u201cunderrated\u201d advantages keep it at the top of the food chain.\u201cThey [Apple] have the ability to take time and do things the way they want to do because they have a lot of advantages as a brand that people truly trust and, the ecosystem login is underrated, and auxiliary hardware devices, that chip advantage. All this is like, really underrated right now. According to a clip shared on X, here are the three reasons why Srinivas believes AI doesn\u2019t change the game for Apple fans:<\/p>\n

iPhone as ‘digital passport’<\/p>\n

First is the \u2018Digital Passport\u2019 advantage wherein, the more powerful AI becomes, the more the iPhone cements its role as users\u2019 \u201cdigital passport.\u201d AI can generate text and images, but it cannot replace the deeply personal and legal data stored on your device.\u201cIt has your wallet, it has all your cards, it has your passes,\u201d Srinivas explained, adding that from health records to FaceTiming loved ones and storing \u201cprecious moments\u201d in your photo library are human experiences that have \u201cno connection to AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple Silicon for the win<\/p>\n

The second is the power of \u201cApple Silicon\u201d. While other companies scramble to find enough computing power to run their AI, Apple has been playing the long game. Srinivas pointed out that Apple has a massive \u201cchip advantage\u201d that many people are underestimating.Apple has years of capacity already locked in for its custom Apple Silicon, which means that while other AI startups have to rent space on someone else\u2019s servers, Apple owns the hardware that lives in your pocket. This allows them to run complex AI locally on the device, rather than in the cloud, making the experience faster and more reliable.<\/p>\n

Security and trust in brand<\/p>\n

Finally, the security and ecosystem trust \u2013 which is perhaps the biggest reason AI won\u2019t \u201ckill\u201d the iPhone. Srinivas noted that the \u201cecosystem lock-in\u201d and Apple’s reputation for privacy are huge barriers for any AI competitor. Users are far more likely to trust their sensitive data, such as banking and health records, to a brand they\u2019ve used for a decade than to a new AI startup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI startup Perplexity At a time when the tech world is obsessed with how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,148785,670,193005,78533,343,344,58732,85,193006,46,11113,193004,125],"class_list":["post-408270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-disruption","tag-apple","tag-apple-brand-loyalty","tag-apple-silicon","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-digital-passport","tag-il","tag-iphone-advantages","tag-israel","tag-perplexity-ai","tag-privacy-in-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}