I have been developing local AI on Apple devices since 2019, and they already had great AI support via Accelerate and MPS back then. Contrast to the Windows DirectML fiasco, which was basically just finger-pointing between MS, Intel and AMD all saying “it works on my machine” for years, I would say that Apple was always far ahead and did invest where it actually mattered to developers and users.

Not sure about nailed. Much like Microsoft’s AI tools I just don’t use them.

Apple definitely had an opportunity to turn Siri into a ChatGPT/Openclaw like thing with immense user value and they just fumbled that chance.

Old Veneto saying

    Ci non fa gnente, non sbaja mai

Translated

    Whoever does nothing never makes mistakes.

Even if, in this case, I really think that Apple has left something important behind, for example the STT of Siri is way behind Whisper and that was released in 2022!

It’s always been the Apple strategy to wait. Every Apple product has been “late” by the rest of the industry standards, because they never play early game anything. iPhone was years after the first smartphone. Features Android had came significantly later. It’s just never been the strategy to be early to any new technology.

Not really nailed. Siri is still awful and I'm considering moving to Android due to it, only privacy concerns stop me, not Apples AI strategy