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The Rise of MCP and Apple’s AI Framework Vision | Fatbobman’s Swift Weekly #077
The Rise of MCP and Apple’s AI Framework Vision
Recently, across social networks, an increasing number of Model Context Protocol (MCP) users have been showcasing a diverse range of applications — from controlling Blender to create beautiful scenes to using the latest GPT-4o images to build complete comic stories. MCP has cleverly opened a gateway between large language models that primarily interact through text and the real world.
Last week, with OpenAI’s announcement of Agent SDK’s official support for MCP, it marked MCP’s establishment as the de facto standard for communication between large models and real-world tools.
Although the MCP protocol itself isn’t particularly complex, implementing a server, configuring it properly, and crafting effective prompts still require overcoming notable technical hurdles. In the coming months, MCP is likely to remain a powerful tool for professionals and tech enthusiasts. One important consideration is that its security relies entirely on the user’s own judgment, making it a nontrivial challenge to integrate MCP seamlessly into the daily workflows and lives of typical users.
Considering Apple’s recent announcement postponing the “More Personalized Siri” feature until next year, can we reasonably expect Apple to introduce an innovative framework similar to MCP at the upcoming WWDC 2025 (in true Apple fashion, likely not simply copying existing standards) and deeply integrate this capability into their operating system and system applications?
Combined with Apple’s open strategy of not limiting itself to any specific cloud-based AI model, a system-integrated framework supporting MCP-like functionality that developers can flexibly utilize would undoubtedly be extremely attractive and offer immense potential. On one hand, it could elegantly address ordinary consumers’ trust issues, while also significantly simplifying the technical challenges developers face when adapting to different large models. Taking this a step further, if MCP servers or implementations were allowed on the App Store, it would fundamentally change the current situation where MCP security is entirely the user’s responsibility.
