when questioned, you have not given a source that john apple is more pro-AI

in fact the article you posted believes he’ll continue tim apple’s path:

“By choosing a hardware leader in John Ternus, Apple may be signaling that it still believes the future of AI will run through tightly integrated devices, not just software,” said Timothy Hubbard, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame.

i don’t think locally-run AI is enshittification since unlike e.g. satellite connection, local LLM does not have additional costs of connecting to a remote service