Let's say you have two companies A and B. A does on-device only and B does in the cloud. Even if their systems begin being just as accurate, B has an ever growi

Let's say you have two companies A and B. A does on-device only and B does in the cloud. Even if their systems begin being just as accurate, B has an ever growing stream of new training data with which to improve their system. A does not. Over time B will become better and better while A does not. Worse, by downloading the model onto devices the model can be easily copied, cloned, reverse engineered, interrogated and otherwise used by competitors.