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But the specifics of how that's achieved, I think, will become a little bit less specific.

Because, again, I think the outcome here is Apple's private cloud compute infrastructure is probably not going to be their long-term solution.

It might not even be their next-year solution.

I think, ultimately, they are going to most likely...

move to google's large models exclusively for all their large model needs i mean i guess that's kind of what has already been reported um but i think that's going to be running on google's infrastructure probably for the foreseeable future for this for on-device stuff i'm sure they're still going to do that yeah but then will they just still call it private cloud compute um

Maybe.

I do think, though, like, this is a good example.

You know, there's a lot of examples throughout, you know, recent tech history where...

Apple either designs their own complete thing, their own complete standard for something that doesn't yet have a standard, and then everyone else kind of copies it and kind of makes it the standard.

See things like Qi 2 and Qi with magnets.

MagSafe kind of became Qi 2, and that clearly influenced it.

Apple kind of steered that.

Or in some cases, Apple...

participates in the design of a standard very heavily like usbc where like you know apple takes a big role because they want it done a certain way and it's kind of done the apple way and then that that you know everybody gets to use that um

I think private cloud compute set a framework in motion and a set of standards in motion that effectively Google looked at that and was like, oh yeah, that's probably a good idea, and then Google copied it.

And maybe that was in part because they were already talking to Apple about possibly hosting this stuff at that point whenever they decided to do this.

Maybe that came afterwards, but whatever it is, I think without Apple having announced private cloud compute and put that stake in the ground the way it was back then,

I think if that hadn't happened, Google would not have done their thing.

However, the actions came to be that Google did their thing.

That seems very similar.