AI on iPhone 18 Pro and Pixel 11 depends on cloud execution

The author argues that smartphone marketing promoting on-device AI and increased RAM is largely a misdirection, as most complex reasoning tasks are silently offloaded to remote data centers. This dynamic creates an architectural regression resembling the dumb terminals of the 1960s through the 1980s. Consequently, users are left with devices that become functionally obsolete whenever their internet connection is lost. Open article →