Equation 29 · Part 1 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device
Symbol C_dev
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ev is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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ev is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
…plainly that developers can build with it while “using AI inference that is free of cost” [ 13 ] . Read against the equation above, that phrase is not a claim that inference has no cost — it is a claim about who pays and U . Apple absorbs the variant-matrix engineering and the update-distribution bill once, centrally, at the operating-system level, and amortizes both across every app on every device rather than letting each app vendor pay its own share of the same fixed costs redundantly. A…
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