I’m currently evaluating a move to Linux from macOS for this reason. Unless they speed up a major internal shakeup they don’t seem to be in a position where their products will be interesting. Amazing hardware though.
It's because, rightly or not, they don't trust Linux in comparison to MacOS and view it as a piracy vector.
If it wasn't going to get blocked by some prominent factions on principle, I think you could build some trusted web technologies that allowed secure video delivery pipelines. But there's too much of a position that nothing like that should exist from some quarters that it'll never happen.
Are Microsoft's AI products built into the OS any better?
It may very well be that the reason Apple got such bad press for their AI efforts is that people genuinely wanted to try them and hoped they'd be good, where as nobody wants to try Microsoft's and already expects it to be bad, thanks to their stellar reputation since Windows 8.
I’m not saying that to defend Microsoft, but at least they have _some_ measure of product success leading them to push further. With apple the leadership push for ai seems an entirely divorced from the current reality of the company.