Apple has begun reshaping the relationship between its users and their devices, introducing daily limits on Siri AI access and reserving deeper capabilities for those who pay. The move reflects a quiet but significant philosophical shift: that intelligence, even the artificial kind embedded in a pocket device, is no longer assumed to be freely and infinitely available. As the computational cost of large language models meets the expectations of a mass consumer market, Apple's tiered model may well become the template by which the industry decides what kind of thinking is a right and what kind