What's surprising to me is not the partnership but that they are outsourcing AI to another company. This is a big minus for the future growth of Apple. Google w

What's surprising to me is not the partnership but that they are outsourcing AI to another company. This is a big minus for the future growth of Apple. Google will get better at its AI offerings while Apple will get weaker. I'm a bit shocked that Apple is in such a spot. I was sure they had a big AI initiative that they would shortly unveil. It seems now that it was wishful thinking on my part. In the past, Apple has been able to move forward by buying products that they can then improve by giving them the Apple treatment and selling them to their fans. AI takes so many resources I suspect they won't be able to buy their way into a killer new product. Apple has been stellar at hardware. I hope that they can keep up their hardware lead since they are blowing their AI offerings.