With Windows laptops (even laptops made by third parties) all integrating AI to the OS level, and Apple (purportedly) preparing to do the same thing, it feels like everyone is taking a sledgehammer to their climate goals and pushing us even faster towards climate collapse. All for an embarrassing technology that will never be as good as its evangelists claim.
apple will absolutely still meet their goals by making more of the packaging recycled cardboard and forcing everyone at the cuppertino office to drink recycled piss from the urinals or whatever their plan is. im sure it all broadly aligns 1:1 despite them pushing out a suite of upgraded hardware every year with no meaningful upgrades all the time. like surely doing all of that absolutely offsets the immeasurable amount of shipping emissions and energy use worldwide to make, store, and sell all those products.