>imo, Apple are actually ahead when it comes to the hardware side of the whole thing.
It surely is just your opinion. Nvidia is king and Apple has found a way to market an integrated GPU and CPU RAM as something magnificent, rather than something that has existed since the dawn of computing.
There is a reason Nvidia is king. There is a reason corporations buy Nvidia and not Apple for their LLM uses.
You seem to think that the AI market consists entirely of the segment that NVIDIA dominates (datacenter training and inference) and that the segment where NVIDIA is absent (inference on battery-powered devices) doesn't exist.
It surely is just your opinion. Nvidia is king and Apple has found a way to market an integrated GPU and CPU RAM as something magnificent, rather than something that has existed since the dawn of computing.
There is a reason Nvidia is king. There is a reason corporations buy Nvidia and not Apple for their LLM uses.