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Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
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#32the small developers eager to pay the Apple tax! I wonder what the theoretical size of this set is.
once the 8 or 9 figure bills for openai & anthropic tokens arrive we can review this topic.
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#35I think Apple should do niche AI as in all these companies run LLM on their infrastructure and Apple should focus on running light LLMs on their devices which are capable of doing so.
This means it would be cheap for the end user and they could sell their "privacy" by saying that the user's communication never leaves their devices
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Re: Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
#37I think Apple should do niche AI as in all these companies run LLM on their infrastructure and Apple should focus on running light LLMs on their devices which are capable of doing so. This means it would be cheap for the end user and they could sell their "privacy" by saying that the user's communication never leaves their devices
See Gemma 4 Edge models like gemma4:e2b
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#38Can't wait to try it. Made a small log app for my IBS which allows free text input and uses LLM to create JSON. If that could be done on device with a foundation model, it would be awesome. (and also completely bomb my income model)
I think that can pretty realistically be done with Gemma or Qwen, although maybe with some delay. They run great on android in the Edge Gallery app.
Further, you could allow for voice input by running whisper STT locally, then doing a small context-aware correction pass with Gemma or Qwen to correct words it got wrong.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
the 15% rate only applies to the first $1 million in proceeds, it does not work like a permanent tax bracket
Yes, small developers.
Apple doing their best to keep "small developers" small, since the catch is that in the following year, because those "small" devs exceeded the $1 million mark even temporary, just once, will be disqualified from the Small Business Program for the entirety of the next calendar year. They will pay the standard 30% commission on all earnings from the very first dollar.
The emergence of this SBP was due to pressure from looming anti-trust measures anyway, which Apple would have never willingly conceded without it.
Re: Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
#40Can't wait to try it. Made a small log app for my IBS which allows free text input and uses LLM to create JSON. If that could be done on device with a foundation model, it would be awesome. (and also completely bomb my income model)
I think that can pretty realistically be done with Gemma or Qwen, although maybe with some delay. They run great on android in the Edge Gallery app. Further, you could allow for voice input by running whisper STT locally, then doing a small context-aware correction pass with Gemma or Qwen to correct words it got wrong.
The issue with those solutions is that it would balloon my app size because I'd need to embed the model, or add a mechanism to download the models afterwards, for something that is essentially a note taking app. But maybe I can make it an option and word it effectively, that is an idea!
Your idea for doing a context aware correction pass on STT is very interesting and something I hadn't thought of yet.
Thank you for your thoughts!