Apple escaped Android's 'toxic hellstew' - now Siri AI is creating a new one

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Editors' Note: Welcome to a new series called An Apple a Day, where we'll share pieces of Apple content from our archives daily from now through late September. In addition to PCMag, this series will include pieces from our sibling sites CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, and Popular Science. In 2014, I called Android a "toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities." Little did I expect CEO Tim Cook to use the exact phrase on stage during that year's WWDC keynote. Someone even made T-shirts. (Contrary to the rumors, no, I had nothing to do with them.) But oh, how things have changed since those seemingly much simpler days. In the decade since, the battle lines have shifted from app store dominance and making developers fall in…