What double standard are you talking about? Are you suggesting that you have to pay for recent hardware for local privacy otherwise you use ChatGPT and its not

What double standard are you talking about? Are you suggesting that you have to pay for recent hardware for local privacy otherwise you use ChatGPT and its not private? As many have already pointed out to you, its most likely the earlier hardware simply wont run their local model. The partnership with OpenAI includes an agreement that they will not track/log apple users, and even then it is a fallback option (after apples OWN cloud model) that users must specifically agree to.