At least the local models they put out are pretty good for their weight class. Could be worse, could be releasing the same amount of local models as Anthropic.

Google has the benefit of billions of devices in the wild that they control. Anthropic really doesn’t have distribution for local models, makes sense they’re not playing in that space.

Sure, lots of differences. Point stands, they're distinguishing themselves in that way at least.

Oh sure, full agreement. In fact given how mid Gemini has been in cloud, this may turn out to be critical strategy to avoid losing cloud to Anthropic / OpenAI / DeepSeek / whoever, and local to Apple (doesn’t seem likely now, but that’s what BlackBerry, Creative, Intel said).