iOS 27’s new Siri AI is a huge upgrade from the old Siri, but it also took longer than expected to arrive. Here’s why the new Siri took so long, per Mike Rockwell. Mike Rockwell says Apple ‘tore [Siri] to the ground, rebuilt it from the ground up’ for iOS 27 Last week following Apple’s WWDC keynote, the company held a Siri and Apple Intelligence-focused tech talk with members of the press. 9to5Mac Editor-in-Chief Chance Miller was there, and shared extensive quotes from the session here from Apple’s Craig Federighi and Amar Subramanya. Another participant in the talk was Mike Rockwell, who took on leadership for Siri just last year . Rockwell provided some new context around why Siri AI took longer than hoped to ship. Here’s what he said: Last year, we had actually built a first version of this that was sort of incremental on top of the original Siri that added tool calling, and we had it working. But we didn’t feel it was really delivering on the vision and the experience that we wanted to do.…