Apple can flip being viewed as AI loser and win the AI consumer race by leveraging Mac devices for local AI.

Apple can flip being viewed as AI loser and win the AI consumer race by leveraging Mac devices for local AI. | And so I think this is kind of the answer Apple's been looking for for years now. I think they've been viewed as like the loser in the AI race for a very long time. this is their opportunity to flip that entire thing and be the winner of the AI consumer race because clearly when people want to run AI locally, their brain just goes to Mac minis and so this is their opportunity just to kind of strike at that one visc and and win the race like that.

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And so I think this is kind of the answer Apple's been looking for for years now. I think they've been viewed as like the loser in the AI race for a very long time. this is their opportunity to flip that entire thing and be the winner of the AI consumer race because clearly when people want to run AI locally, their brain just goes to Mac minis and so this is their opportunity just to kind of strike at that one visc and and win the race like that.

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