Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows Weary of Spending

Re:Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows W... by veunes on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:54AM (#46214882)

That is exactly why Apple's on-device strategy is the only economically viable one. If every Siri request cost $0.01 for cloud inference, Apple would go bankrupt in a month. But if inference happens on the Neural Engine on the user's phone, the cost to Apple is zero (well, aside from R&D). This solves the problem of unmonetizable requests like "set a timer," which killed Alexa's economics

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Re:Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows W... by lopis on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:57AM (#46215251)

The greed to lock customers in early on for cheap or free, in hopes to force them on a subscription, absolutely ruined the previous era os assistants. It could have been great with offline inference and foster competition. Instead we got mediocre assistants, thst got worse each year.

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Re:Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows W... by bayindirh on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:43AM (#46215167)

On top of it, on-device models increase response times and can be really private if the developer decides.

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