Leah Feigert

But I think you're right that like there will always be certain things we need screens for and that humans are better at just doing ourselves.

And then I would like to think there will be a whole slew of tasks that we can eventually offload to AI agents and that would make more sense for like a voice computing paradigm.

I do think to the partnership point that you made, Apple has already partnered with Google and it's going to embed Google Gemini into its devices.

I think some people saw that as a stopgap, like, OK, it doesn't have frontier models up and running.

It's going to use Google in the interim.

I saw that as like Apple admitting we're not even going to try and get into this race in a full throated way.

Like Google's right there.

We can use Gemini and that's what we're going to do.

I think that Cook is a diplomat, first and foremost, and he used that diplomacy to position Apple to get deals that were favorable to the company.

I think there was a surprise factor with Trump because he reads as more liberal.

there was a feeling that behind closed doors, he wasn't as complimentary of Trump as he was in public.

But nonetheless, he was at the inauguration.

He was appearing in photo apps.

I did actually hear something funny.

I mean, this caveat like is a rumor, but from people who are in these types of circles and said that he wasn't aware that he was going to be placed directly behind Trump in the inauguration.

And when that placement was put forward, there was a moment of slight panic because they all realized like,

what the photo is going to look like.

But nonetheless, that's the photo.

Yeah.

I think the last point that I wanted to make, just going back to like the iPhone of it all, is if AI hardware continues to disappoint, I think that Apple is in a really strong position.