You've confused engineering compromise for malice, and reversed the purpose. For the model capabilities and inference power draw, what alternative do you see to a (at least mostly) fixed hardware model?
No, you still don't understand what I'm saying. Yes, ASICs make inference faster, but also makes the hardware obsolete faster, if it's embedded in a phone. That sounds like a negative, but Apple is going to turn it into a positive for their business and use it to speed up upgrade cycles as cameras are no longer a driving factor and cycles have been getting longer.
