By every standard AI metric, Apple is losing.

They're not selling tokens.

They're not building data centers.

They're not doing advanced research.

And yet, their hardware is the machinery on which the most advanced AI users on the planet are actually running their day to day.

So what is this race that Apple is actually running?

As one of the big tech giants, Apple has really been noticeable in its absence in the AI race. I was one of many analysts who said, God, Apple

intelligence is a disaster, what's happening with Siri, Apple specialists like John Gruber

wrote a year or so ago that Apple's credibility had been damaged and squandered by their

presentation at the Worldwide Development Conference, where

he called the demo a concept video. Casey Newton said Apple's begun to lose the plot. And Ben

Thompson, who runs the newsletter Stratlecker, he said, Apple's nowhere near the cutting edge.

And I was part of that chorus of voices as well.

There were somewhat disappointed, perhaps blind, oblivious to the fact that every single day

when I was hammering away at chat GPT or at claw, I was doing it through an Apple device.

And in fact, even as I switched from model to model to model, the device I used did not change.

So there was something that I missed that was right in front of me.

But recently, there is something interesting that is happening.

So when I went off and started to play with the OpenClaw agents earlier this year, I was

running them on a small Mac Mini that I have in my equipment cabinets.

And within a week or so, I was hammering it so hard that Rune, which is the audio transport

that I use around the house, and our CCTV cameras were really no longer working,

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