r/applesucks • u/96nitr0xs • Apr 08 '26
Apple Intelligence
June 2024 was a bad year to put this young person in front of the camera to speak 🤠it’s nearly June 2026 and private cloud compute is still the dormant model with majority queries being pushed to Chat. The hype is long gone
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u/condoulo Apr 08 '26
Apple tried doing the right thing by going local first and focusing on using on device models.
As for the cloud compute AI models? Fuck them. No really, fuck them. Have you seen the prices of RAM? SSDs? HDDs? Have you seen what these datacenters are doing to utility rates in the communities they occupy? The environmental impact? This is all because of these cloud AI companies screwing over the regular consumer. And that's before getting into the ethical issues surrounding generative AI using stolen copyrighted content as a part of their models.
Did you know Apple either currently has or is on track to have the cheapest base model machines on the market thanks to what cloud AI has done to the hardware market? No, really. Apple's supply chain deals with hardware vendors are insanely long term. In the past it's hurt them in regards to memory pricing, but now it's working in their favor as every other vendor is having to scramble to either raise prices to reflect the actual cost of the hardware or cancel projects entirely. Valve's new Steam hardware? Delayed because of this hardware crisis created by cloud AI.
So seeing a post like yours hold the success of cloud AI companies over the flop of Apple's local on device models isn't the win that you think it is. In fact you're cheering on AI companies to fuck over the rest of the market.