am almost certain that's because one of Jobs’ legacies was their HR department: Apple has never been too keen into outsourcing mission critical jobs. Jobs was a control freak and understood that too much outsourcing would dilute his authority.

most USA “AI” is nothing but Amazon’s mechanical turk at a massive scale, being fed mostly by minimum wage graduates overseas, aka the globalized precariat.

so ironically, Apple’s authoritarianism is a deterrent to developing AI.

@briankrebs