Ben Thompson closing out today’s post:

The only possible way to curb Apple’s dominance is through competition, and if Apple wants to open up a vector for competitive hardware to arise, that’s fine! And, if in response to competition, they open up their platform, that’s great too.

AI is the best opportunity to compete with Apple and Google since the launch of the iPhone. And yet hardly anyone is going for it. It’s easy to complain that Apple fumbled around with AI for a couple years, but no potential new competitors capitalized on it.