Their rule of only releasing major software updates once a year in June is holding them back IMO. Their local LLM apis were dated before macOS/iOS 26 was even released. Just because something worked 20 years ago doesn’t mean it works today, but I’m sure it’s hard to argue against a historically successful strategy internally.
One would expect the platform owner (especially one where they own both the hardware AND software) to provide a reasonable / easy path to using LLMs if they are going to provide a framework for doing so. But Apple can’t because of how slow they ship updates
