AI will become a commodity -- see Deepseek. The handwriting is on the wall and the open source models and practices to get to Claude 4.1 or GPT-5 are all in the public domain.

Apple could simply sell earpods with an AI voice interface, the UI/UX and solution space is evolving too quickly for a company like Apple to sensibly try to define how it will use the technology yet.

See Google and Microsoft's failed integrations of AI with search for an example of how it should not be done.

The more I use AI the more I think I don't need a laptop and would settle for a comfortable VR setup as I do far less typing of symbols.