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Apple’s AI plans could put power back in the hands of users
The future of technology sometimes goes in surprising directions, taking an obvious path and then suddenly doubling back to go down a road less traveled. There was a time when The Future was underpowered client devices powered by remote servers, until it wasn’t—and then (thanks to cloud services and AI) it was again.
The rise of AI as a force in the tech industry—for good or ill, be it snake oil or world-changing (it’s probably in between on both counts)—has upended a lot of assumptions about how tech works and where it’s going. The conventional wisdom has held that Apple is behind, and AI puts it at a disadvantage. That might be true, but… maybe it isn’t?