What baffles me is that Apple abandoned this completely sound theory for a risky (and entirely incorrect) bet on NPU hardware. They left OpenCL to bleed out, they simplified their GPU hardware to specialize functionality better, and ended up putting all their chips on the wrong bet. Now they pay OpenAI to run their models on Apple hardware, and apparently can't even do that without help from Nvidia too.
It'll be interesting to see what future generations make of Tim Cook's leadership. He started the decade so strong picking up right where Jobs left off, and ended the decade with several antitrust lawsuits, ballooning subscription services and the professedly failed launch of one Vision Pro headset. Perhaps Apple needs a decade to file a few of their own rough edges down again.