"I keep thinking that Steve Jobs would have been all over the UX ramifications of LLMs and demanding that Apple lead in that area."

Oh give it a rest. Lol who are you compared with the management of Apple?

This preachy stuff is ridiculous. So far Apple have been correct to stay out the LLM space.

Define "correct" first.

Apple absolutely messed-up by abandoning OpenCL's early ML research efforts to oppose a CUDA monopoly. They messed up a second time shipping a raster GPU with Apple Silicon when CUDA and Tegra had proven that GPGPU was mobile-ready. Then when the ARM datacenter had it's moment, Nvidia's Grace ARM CPU displaced billions of dollars in sales that would have been Apple's if they didn't mess up the fastest CPU in the world with macOS. Then they depreciated the Mac Pro, which seems like a mistake since it had the potential to outsell Nvidia's ARM datacenter chips if it ran Linux. According to the rumor mill, Apple's M8 chip will finally be the one that takes GPGPU seriously, after a decade of Apple's innovative ship-second mentality.

Apple's management isn't infallible whatsoever. Many of them are petty, blinded by politics and/or obsessed with their legacy more than they care about profits or quality products.

I would reply to your argument but I can’t locate it.

Lol yeah sounds nice on the surface.

Just like Codex failed so would that.