The particularly strange thing about this is that Apple has been shipping neural network accelerators since the iPhone X. The one actual selling point of Microsoft's "Copilot PCs" is copying Apple and putting an NPU into Windows laptops so they can have all the AI features Apple had already shipped way before they coined the term "Apple Intelligence".
The LLM hype is so powerful that it got people to think the market leader in consumer-facing AI features was falling behind because you couldn't ask your iPhone to summarize notifications poorly.
It's that sentiment all over again. Specifically, a naive belief that the specs/tech of something are just as important than the execution. Maybe they are if you are very tech online, but for most people, tech/specs don't matter as much.
Ultimately, this is another distortion of reality by the comment section.
It's what people always say: when the 5S came out, pundits were saying that was the death of the iPhone because the Samsung Galaxy was much bigger. Next year, the 6 was bigger and somehow Apple survived a year with a smaller device.
