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There's a distinction worth drawing here: "on-device" and "local" are not the same thing, and this thread is really about the gap between them. A model Apple pushes to your disk that you can't inspect, swap, or remove, that runs when the OS decides, is on-device in the literal sense and gives you none of the control that makes local AI worth wanting. Local, in the sense people actually mean it, is that you chose the weights, you chose when it runs, and you can delete it. Forcing a 14-29GB model you can't uninstall is the inverse of that. The storage complaint is real, but the deeper one is that "we put AI on your device" quietly became "we put our AI on your device."