Practical Guide to Device-Cloud Division of Labor: Breaking Down Which of 6 Types of AI Tasks Should Be On-Device or Cloud-Based, Based on China-Market Apple Intelligence
Author’s note: Based on hands-on testing of Apple Intelligence on China-region iOS 27.3, this piece breaks down how on-device models and cloud-based Large Language Models divide the work — and hands you a ready-to-use 5-dimension decision framework plus steps for shipping it in a real product. With the iOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out, Apple…