What the iPhone Air demo exposed is not that the hardware has caught up — it is that a specific community stopped being impressed by hardware milestones before the rest of the world started tracking them. nav_app's post describes months of frustrating iteration culminating in stable 1.5 tokens per second from a 397-billion-parameter model [1]. The r/LocalLLaMA community responded with technical curiosity about the decomposition method, not with the disbelief that greeted the same class of result on Hacker News weeks earlier. These are not two audiences with different emotional…