Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
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Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
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#2Small developers: "Your $99/year tithe has cost me thousands of dollars to provide basic support for your ecosystem."
Apple: "Did somebody say 'we want cheaper AI'?"
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#3Reading the title I had a very different notion of what to expect. The article has something completely different. I was hoping this would be something for indie app devs.
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#4Cheaper isn't as much of a problem as functional.
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#5>Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs
Good luck, but define "cheaper" ? If you have to pay, no individual will pay, just corporations.
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#6What is the target to write for is the key aspect here. Not sure there is enough on the phone for developers to create new experiences. I fear all of them are going to try to automate everything on the phone for the user. Not sure what value that provides. May be I am overly skeptical , let’s see
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#7>Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs Good luck, but define "cheaper" ? If you have to pay, no individual will pay, just corporations.
How do you come to this conclusion. I know several people that are absolutely not techy dev types, yet they pay for a subscription to chatgpt.
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#8Reading the title I had a very different notion of what to expect. The article has something completely different. I was hoping this would be something for indie app devs.
uhh isn't it basically free access to API if your apps are less than 2 million downloads?
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#9Reading the title I had a very different notion of what to expect. The article has something completely different. I was hoping this would be something for indie app devs.
uhh isn't it basically free access to API if your apps are less than 2 million downloads?
Before opening the link I thought they were reducing the cost per token.
This smells more like a get you hooked and then crank the costs.
Not that I'd be any less skeptical of the first option. We've already seen providers reduce quotas and raise prices.
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#10Is this more scraping at the bottom of the barrel?
I get it. So many tech companies built their platforms around people submitting their work for sale. Now that things have cooled down they're desperate. This is exactly like what happened to the music and movie industries.
If they want to make money they must take bigger creative risks. AI is the exact opposite of that because it's trained on what's already been done.