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This is cool, I always like to see local-first services on Mobile.

All of these features are great, and it's really cool that I can have them run locally on my phone, but what I feel is really missing on the Mobile App market right now is AI cross app automation.

I'm not sure it's possible with IOS right now though.

For instance: I went to france earlier this year, and before I went I saw this french vocabulary sheet that was just an image. I wanted to get the text from the image, format it into a csv with english in column 1 and french in column 2 and then export it to anki, which is also on my phone. AnkiDriod has this feature, and Gemini can deffinitely do OCR, translation and text formatting, however I had to do all the awkward app switching and input myself! This is the bit I wanted automated

[shuhongwu]

In my knowledge domain, that's actually possible on iOS, but it will cause more privacy issues for sharing data between different apps, and also the clipboard issue. Apple has been pretty restrictive about inter-app communication for good reasons, but it does limit these kinds of automated workflows.

As you mentioned with that situation, I think Apple and Google may have better power to optimize the OS system if we only do it on the local device. They have the deep system-level access that would make this kind of seamless automation work without the privacy and security trade-offs that third-party apps face.