Jesus

This is like a couple weeks of phones sales. Makes me think that the author is just speculating that this is tariff related. This might just be a normal shipment.

Using dumb LLMs, 5 plane loads is probably under 2million phones.

Given the amount of phones Apple sells in the US, this is probably just another Tuesday for them. They sell 60m phones in the US each year.

Good point. That’s really weird that they’re allowing it to be installed on those iPads. Although selling a 64gig iPad was also a weird shitty config. I can’t imagine those things are fun to use. I feel bad for anyone that got duped into that.

Just saying that using or enabling it is not mandatory.

Also, as There are no 64GB devices that support Apple Intelligence. All supporting phones start at 128. 15pro, 16, 16pro, 16e

Turning it off reclaims about 3gigs, but yes, it still eats up about 4gigs for a feature you’re not using, which is not great.

Edit: apparently there might be an iPad or two. But all the phones are 128gig and up.

mandatory AI

Nothing is mandatory.

GPT is Opt-in only. And it’s arguably somewhat buried in settings.

That said, the local private Apple model that doesn’t train from you data is now turned on by default, but it can be disabled with a single toggle that’s right being the shiniest setting icon. You’re not missing much if you turn both of these things off. It’s basically just janky grammarly and budget dall-e.