Apple just handed the keys to a hardware engineer in the middle of a software war. John Ternus became CEO Sept 1 after 15 years of Tim Cook. He shipped iPad, AirPods and Vision Pro — not a single model. The part nobody says out loud: Apple is the last trillion-dollar tech giant with no frontier model, and it just picked a silicon leader over an AI one. That's a bet that on-device inference beats owning the model. More takes at www.contentbuffer.com Smart bet, or a head start Apple never closes? #Apple #AI #OnDeviceAI #TechLeadership #Semiconductors #TechNews