Brian Barrett
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But Google pays Apple's billions of dollars to be the primary search engine on the iPhone.
I think Apple's bet is that...
By building relationships with OpenAI, with Google again, with Anthropic at some point, who knows?
It can have that similar, we're just the vessel, right?
We're just the thing.
And I like their odds because all of the AI hardware that we've seen so far, I know that Sam Altman and Johnny Ive are cooking something up.
I know that everybody's got some sort of pendant or speaker or whatever that they're trying to make happen.
At the end of the day, I don't think that AI computing is going to replace your phone.
I think fundamentally, you're always going to need something with a display and apps and the broader internet versus just something you can talk to and get answers back from.
Now, there's another part of Tim Cook's legacy that I want to ask Leah about because, you know, Tim Cook, of all the Silicon Valley titans who have been friendly and made nice with Donald Trump, Tim Cook kind of stands out in a couple of ways.
One, that I think he's the only one who presented Trump with like a custom trophy.
designed by his company's engineers.
I think two things about the Ternus question specifically.
One, I think we just don't know other than I will say like he is going to be the CEO of a major company that has lots of shareholders and he has a fiduciary responsibility to make this number go up, right?
And the way that you do that is you're friendly with Donald Trump.
That's just kind of the way it is.
I'm not saying that's the way it should be, but I think the idea that he would take a
feels far-fetched regardless of what his personal feelings are.
The other thing I would say is like Tim Cook's not disappearing.
He's going to be the executive chairman.