Miss the days when you could have a $199 iPod Touch around for testing betas and other things. Getting a device to test Apple Intelligence on iOS would set me back $600 (iPad Air) or $1000 (iPhone 15 Pro). Brand new iPad Mini, regular iPad, and non-pro iPhone 15 can’t run it.
Apple’s strategy with on-device models is going to take 2-3 years to play out. Meanwhile everyone just uses ChatGPT.
Numeric Citizen Everyone now use ChatGPT? I’m no so sure about it. It’s there, sure, but interest might be waning somewhat already. See: The AI summer — Benedict Evans
www.ben-evans.com/benedicte…
Manton Reece @numericcitizen Well, I mean “everyone” who wants to use AI. I’m not surprised that a lot of ChatGPT usage was just people playing with it once. Personally I use it often.
Jade van Dörsten I don’t see why older devices can’t leverage Private Cloud Compute.
John Brayton I cannot fault Apple for discontinuing it, but the iPod Touch was the perfect test device.
Manton Reece @jade Yeah, I assume they aren’t confident about scaling the cloud to so many millions of devices.
rom @jade same thoughts as well. Allowing iPhone SE and above access might just kill Apple’s cloud infrastructure. LOL
Jade van Dörsten @rom I would even be happy with access requiring an iCloud+ subscription. Then, I think scaling would be more than manageable.