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Reuters: Apple will be the first U.S. firm to crack the Chinese AI marketapple china intelligence alibaba4 days ago
Published August 14, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Reuters: Apple will be the first U.S. firm to crack the Chinese AI market

"The absence of AI features on Chinese iPhones had been cited as a factor weighing on sales as consumers gravitated toward domestic brands offering built-in AI assistants."

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How Apple wins AI's endgameapple endgame ai nvidia1 week ago
Published August 7, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

How Apple wins AI's endgame

"The endgame of AI is not four companies renting you intelligence by the token from a datacenter in Virginia."

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Nate B. Jones: Apple is playing a 20 to 30-year AI game (video)apple nate jones citadel2 weeks ago
Published August 4, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Nate B. Jones: Apple is playing a 20 to 30-year AI game (video)

"Apple is not an investment story. Apple is not a finance story. Apple is all about long-term advantage acquired by investing in hardware and customer experiences."

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Apple-AI enthusiast Errol Brandt looks forward to Oracle's comeuppanceapple oracle kiraa fail2 weeks ago
Published August 3, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Apple-AI enthusiast Errol Brandt looks forward to Oracle's comeuppance

"They used a high-margin cash generation machine to fund a low-margin leasing business — and took on the balance-sheet risk OpenAI didn't want to carry."

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The AI burn rate is making Washington nervousapple ai burn washington2 weeks ago
Published August 1, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

The AI burn rate is making Washington nervous

“This AI thing better work out because if it doesn’t ... we’re going to have a problem.” — Apollo Global Management's Torsten Slok

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If AI is a bubble, where does that leave Apple?apple ai bubble zitron3 weeks ago
Published July 28, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

If AI is a bubble, where does that leave Apple?

"Apple Intelligence was both the worst and best thing to happen to Apple as far as the AI bubble goes." — AI skeptic Ed Zitron From…

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Dan Niles on Apple AI: 'Sometimes you get lucky for being incompetent'apple niles overpriced3 weeks ago
Published July 28, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Dan Niles on Apple AI: 'Sometimes you get lucky for being incompetent'

From "Dan Niles on the biggest issue with Apple" which aired Monday on CNBC.

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Laura Martin: Apple's existential riskapple martin existential threat3 weeks ago
Published July 25, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Laura Martin: Apple's existential risk

"If it's wrong, it will not survive." 

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Angel investor Jason Calacanis calls Apple a 'screaming buy'apple calacanis screAMING BUY4 weeks ago
Published July 20, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Angel investor Jason Calacanis calls Apple a 'screaming buy'

"On-device frontier inference would re-rate Apple from AI-loser to AI-distribution-owner."

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Barron's: What Apple learned from J.D. Rockefellerapple rockefeller orifice ai1 month ago
Published July 17, 2026 by Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Barron's: What Apple learned from J.D. Rockefeller

"The iPhone maker is letting its Mag Seven peers pony up for AI research and development, and is ready to swoop in to grab the best models when the dust settles."

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]

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