Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone: I Tested It and the Gap Between 'Works' and 'Useful' Is Still Massive

Gemma 4 runs offline on iPhone. I replicated it on my 13 with a nearly full 128GB. It works. But the gap between 'runs' and 'actually does something useful' is exactly the story of all mobile local inference — and what it does to the Apple-as-AI-laggard narrative is more interesting than the model i