Apple is on the cusp of becoming the world’s leading ecosystem for personal productivity AI, with the software features introduced at WWDC soon to be accompanied by the world’s most computationally powerful (yet efficient) Macs, iPads, and iPhones.
This fully integrated, platform-wide approach spanning mobile, PC, and even cloud is not currently matched by anyone else in the business. That Apple’s platforms already have hundreds of millions of users means its AI offer should achieve market traction incredibly quickly, even as it works in partnership with AI firms to deliver the things its own intelligence doesn’t do.
Apple’s AI-augmented fab gadgets
Thanks to its powerful processor, the M4 iPad Pro has turned Apple’s tablet sales around, according to IDC. And while Apple’s fastest M4 processor has only been available in the iPad Pro, that still gives developers a perfectly viable machine on which to test software built to exploit Apple’s APIs for AI. No Macs run these chips, yet, but that’s about to change.
