someone has a larger pile of cash now

Quite the opposite actually, way too many people treat LLMs as oracles, all the while they are fundamentally unreliable at knowledge storage and retrieval. If there was legitimate doubt in the early days as to whether a collaborative encyclopedia could self organise and self censor into a reliable source, the engineering of LLMs makes the opposite a certainty.

One would think (hope / pray?) that a $4T company could walk and chew gum at the same time. But, apparently not.

Are you suggesting their semiconductor engineers should down tools and start fixing bugs in macOS?

It also means that we will have a trouble buying new laptops for a few next years.