It’s remarkable that will inevitably rush to build free apps that only reinforce OpenAI’s moat while cannibilizing their own opportunities.
When the iPhone came out, there were like 6 apps, and no app store. In 2024, iOS App Store generated $1.3T in revenue, 85% of which went to developers.
That figure sounds way too high
Edit: yes I understand it is correct, but still it sounds like an insane amount
In 2018, I founded a startup specializing in chatbot for events. At the time the platforms were Alexa Skills, Actions on Google, and Messenger Platform (and LINE Bot, for people in Asia). I guess what's old is new again, but with fancier tech.
When the iPhone came out, there were like 6 apps, and no app store. In 2024, iOS App Store generated $1.3T in revenue, 85% of which went to developers.
That figure sounds way too high Edit: yes I understand it is correct, but still it sounds like an insane amount
When the iPhone came out, there were like 6 apps, and no app store. In 2024, iOS App Store generated $1.3T in revenue, 85% of which went to developers.
That figure sounds way too high Edit: yes I understand it is correct, but still it sounds like an insane amount
I see a lot of negative comments here but to me, it was obvious this is where OAI should land. They want to be the platform in which you tell what you want, and OAI does it for you. It's gonna connect to your inbox, calendar, payment methods, and you'll just ask it to do something and it will, using those apps. This means OAI won't need ads. Just rev share.
> This means OAI won't need ads. Ads are defenitely there. Just hidden so deeply in the black box which is generating the useful tips :)
If you ask it to build a headless frontend web app, it immediately starts generating code with Next.js. I’ve always wondered how it was trained to default to that choice, given the smorgasbord of web frameworks out there. Next.js is solid, but it’s also platform-ware, tightly coupled to commercial interests. I wish there were more bias toward genuinely open-source technologies.
This conception makes sense iff you believe in ChatGPT as the universal user interface of the future. If anything the agentic wave is showing that the chat interfaces are better off hidden behind stricter user interface paradigms.