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iOS allows AI generators in the app store, and Procreate is a very successful and actively developed app.

They absolutely could. They are choosing not to.

You'd think it would too since apple openly advertises how good the newer hardware is at AI. No idea where the above user got the idea that they had no ability to do that.

Apple can advertise whatever they like.

Not that it'll change any iSheep minds but it takes around 30 seconds to generate an image on the best iOS hardware and blows through battery.

So they would have to do an online implementation like every other shitty AI app.

And... how exactly would that prevent them from doing so?

Other than being a crap experience Apple would likely reject the app update under the app responsiveness, performance and resource usage guidelines.

Uh huh. Just like all the other apps doing exactly that, many of which have many more installs than Procreate.

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that Apple doesn't allow this. There's overwhelming evidence that they do.

Name one.

Let's go with the elephant in the room: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069

That's not a local model. Congrats now it doesn't work offline and burns money like Pablo Escobar's final days.

AI wouldn't help their app in the slightest. Taking an anti "AI" stance aligns with their business. It's a perfectly rational decision. Now, that doesn't take anything away from being a heartfelt decision, too.

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