Cook preserved Apple’s supply chain by deftly appeasing Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. As much as any Apple product released during his time as CEO, Tim Cook’s tenure will be remembered for its ruthlessly efficient tight-rope walk between an autocrat in China and a would-be autocrat in the US.

It has already been said repeatedly, but Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again confirmed that Apple Intelligence will still be on-device and in Private Cloud Compute in spite of the Google partnership. Apple is working with Google to get access to a powerful ...