I thought one of the draws for apple devices was privacy. Wonder how they account for that.

In addition, i know a lot of apple device owners dislike AI integration. For example, my non tech friends turned off a lot of the apple intelligence stuff in the recent big iOS update.

Sending anything to ChatGPT requires explicit permission from the user, every time.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/chatgpt-extensio...

With few new products in the pipeline, minor bumps to existing ones (liquid glass is a distraction not a feature), and lowering prices to expand market, at some point a for-profit company is going to reconsider the value of privacy and reframe that value in dollars.

I believe they let you interface with OpenAI anonymously if you don't have an account. Of course, your usage is much more limited if you don't have an account. So you can either use it a lot with no anonymity, or use it a little with anonymity, at least IME.

"Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/