I think Apple disagrees on thin clients, judging by how they continue to add massive compute resources to their devices. On AI for example they seem to be inclu

I think Apple disagrees on thin clients, judging by how they continue to add massive compute resources to their devices. On AI for example they seem to be including the resources for quite a lot of inference to happen on-device. So what is on the network? Copyrighted content: easier to stream that, and easier rights control. Connection: it’s not like your friends and family can be “on device.” Cold storage AKA backups. Geo data. Live data.