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-devi... www.manton.org

@manton 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...

@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.

@manton I don't see why older devices can't leverage Private Cloud Compute.

@manton I cannot fault Apple for discontinuing it, but the iPod Touch was the perfect test device.

@jade Yeah, I assume they aren’t confident about scaling the cloud to so many millions of devices.

@rom I would even be happy with access requiring an iCloud+ subscription. Then, I think scaling would be more than manageable.

@jade yeah, if ever, I think that will be via the premium tier. :)