why not? they clearly wanted to exploit AI hype in order to turn a profit, even if they did so indirectly. Why shouldn't that speak to their motives and trustworthiness?
if Apple started churning out guns, landmines, snakeoil, cancer cures, NFTs, and magic-AIs their reputation would falter.
Teenage Engineering isn't making guns, landmines, NFTs, or magic AI. Maybe I'm just not a deep thinker like you so I'm not making the connection but in my mind a company paid Teenage Engineering to design some hardware; Teenage Engineering designed the hardware. That is all there is to it. They made no promises about the functionality because that wasn't their job because it wasn't their product.
Apple might be able to get away with all that, their reality distortion field is unmatched, but I agree that teenage engineering might actually take a reputation hit if they are too liberal with their outsourcing.
Personally, the Vision Pro wasn’t really my cup of tea but I will be standing in line on day one at my local Apple Store for the Landmine Pro.
if Apple started churning out guns, landmines, snakeoil, cancer cures, NFTs, and magic-AIs their reputation would falter.