Perplexity’s Comet: Now Free, with Mobile Coming Soon. Agentic Browsing on your Mobile, No Safari or iOS needed.

This is a quick note to point out that if you don’t build the future, the future will use you as its foundations. Perplexity just made its big move - the company that people were calling worthless and lacking its own IP, is coming for Apple’s famed installed user base (and everyone else’s), right now as I write.

Perplexity just announced Comet - their agentic browser with Perplexity attached and the ability to choose which LLM foundational model you want to use - is now a free download, and mobile is coming soon. I wrote about the danger of this happening, three months ago.

The Rise of AI-Native Browsers: Perplexity’s Comet, OpenAI’s GPT Browser (and no Safari).

10th July 2025–Browsers: Judgement Day. Perplexity and OpenAI launch AI-native, agentic browsers. Old paradigms—Safari, Chrome, iOS—start to look obsolete. This isn’t about faster search. It’s about the interface becoming the intelligence. Apple? Stuck in the mud, yelling “WebKit only!” Bozo yeah?

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Meanwhile Apple squats on Safari, a boxed Siri, and Apple Intelligence which is broadly dead from the waist down.

Apple, wake up, or you’ll find your platform being used by a Trojan horse the way Steve Jobs used iTunes for Windows as a way of capturing the entire digital music market and dominating the MP3 player, the music management platform, and the download market in one fell swoop, launched the Get a Mac concept, and encouraged people to switch first, to a Mac, and laid the pathway to the iPhone’s exponential adoption and success in the process. THIS is how great artists ship.

Apple seem to have forgotten how to do this. On the day commemorating Steve Jobs death, I think it behoves us to understand how he would never have alllowed Apple to be in a position such as this, and with AI failure all over its hands.

You don’t need to be first, but Apple have had 15 years of Siri to get this right.

Apple’s 15-Year AI Odyssey: From Siri’s Promise to “Apple Intelligence.” Featuring Siri, the world’s first backwards-evolving assistant now aged -15.

Apple’s AI journey reads less like a roadmap and more like a séance. For 15 years, the faithful have insisted a grand plan exists—somewhere, someday—while Siri stumbles on, lobotomised. The real mystery? Why Apple, once the master of interface revolutions, keeps mistaking silence for strategy.

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And now, Perplexity’s Comet browser is available on all of Apple’s famed installed user base of devices, including - shortly - mobile, where it will quickly displace GPT (unless OpenAI get their act together and launch their own delayed agentic either) ASAP. Comet and Perplexity can integrate with your email and documents, replaces search and Safari, and stores all your AI research and projects.

And now, it’s free, it’s on your Mac, and it will be on your iPhone soon. An Agentic OS, just as I wrote about.

Either way, no snark intended, no anti-Apple ranting from me, I have been talking agentic browsing and erupting about Perplexity since June, and now the future is here, and Apple is still stuck in 2023’s failures, launched in 2024, and cancelled in 2025 until sometime in 2026 while the world just moves 0n around it - right past and over the famed Walled Garden where Apple’s Management sent happy to just carry on iteratively pruning.

If they’d made a move on Perplexity back in June when I wrote about it…

Perplexity: The OS 9-to-OS X Moment for Apple AI, Why “Real Artists Ship” Still Matters, How Apple Could Own AI by this Christmas—and Hit $400 by 2027

Buying Perplexity gives Apple an instant AI OS, a live interface, and reclaims its instinct. It bridges FMF, replaces Google’s crutch, turning Siri from joke to conductor. Skip 18 months of build, own the narrative—and make $400 AAPL feel underpriced by 2027. The shortcut—shipping—is the product.

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.. AAPL still could have avoided a pathway to mediocrity I forecast of $250, and hit $400 instead.

Apple, F1, and Perplexity: “Engineering Fantasy.” With Tariffs On The Horizon, What Tyre Strategy Does AAPL Need for $400?

Behind Apple’s cinematic Formula One fantasy lies a more urgent narrative: markets pricing perfection, investors smoking hopium, and a company at a strategic crossroads. But what if the road to $400 isn’t paved with hype—but with the precise geometry of Apple finally showing its hand and delivering?

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Look, AI does matter, and if that doesn’t matter to you, then I suggest you go to this download link and try it for yourself.

https://www.perplexity.ai/comet

Helpful hint:

• WATCH the videos,
• SEE how it works,
• or you WILL miss the point
• and end up in obscurity along with all the other AI nay-sayers.

AI just landed, big time and Apple is still 15 years late. With this being Steve Jobs’ Day, he’s likely laughing wherever he’s dwelling, at the ineptitude of what he’s seeing going on around him post-hoc his sad death.

Because he wasn’t one for tears, just passion, innovation and having the pirate-psychology daring-do, to do the unthinkable and win, not think about it for 15 years, do it, and then screw it up for three years on the trot.

Do you care about this news, or does it “meh mean nothing to me?” I’ll leave you to answer, or disagree, in the comments.

— Tommo, London, Sunday 5th October, 2025

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