I think one major issue is that we’ve somehow ran out of hardware to upgrade (except the camera I guess), so now we’re tying software upgrades to hardware.

Like, I was willing to play ball when Siri came out and my iPhone 4 couldn’t do it (had to upgrade to 4s). Like I knew that Siri was just an app on the cloud, but I figured it needed some hardware to preprocess audio or something?

But why the hell can’t these AI features just work on current phones? Oh, because the business model requires selling more hardware. So are we just assuming that nobody will pay money for AI assistants?