For months, the tech world waited to see how Apple would respond to the hyper‑accelerated AI race. Instead of unveiling a massive in‑house frontier model or a shiny new data‑center empire, Apple revealed something much more subtle — and far more strategic. Apple decided not to fight the war everyone expected it to join. While the rest of Big Tech is pouring eye‑watering sums into GPUs, data centers, and frontier‑scale models, Apple chose a quieter, more calculated move: inte
