The reason Apple was right about on-device processing isn’t about the privacy marketing speak or anything like that, it’s because so many of cloud services are

The reason Apple was right about on-device processing isn’t about the privacy marketing speak or anything like that, it’s because so many of cloud services are run at a loss and have little hope of ever becoming profitable businesses. Every time you use Google AI that’s offloaded to their cloud you’re basically getting free “money” from Google, and all of these functions are places where advertising can’t be inserted in a way that makes any sense. The most profitable cloud services are things like “sell storage that sits unused” or “sell a subscription to fitness classes.” If you want to run something complex and resource intensive you better hope you have some enterprise customers lined up.