Unless:

1) LLM advances stop 2) The Chinese companies release open source/weight models which are as good or better than the West 3) Apple somehow turns it around with AI

Apple is done for.

AI is going to be central to the next generation of phones and the next form factor.

Their complete failure on AI has been ... shocking. Not sure if they don't have the data to train a leading edge model or if they have some kind of personele issue, it has just been shocking to see their lack of progress.

No doubt Apple has rested on their laurels for a long time. I just would not have expected this.