Not available for my region. Sad.
ChatGPT app for iOS
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Re: ChatGPT app for iOS
#182This release is more relevant as there have been very many fake ChatGPT apps that leveraged OpenAI's branding. Case in point, the App Store release app subtitle is "The official app by OpenAI"
There is probably no other reason to bring this app to iOS and Android. ChatGPT works very well as a PWA added to home screens.
Does the PWA also log you out every few days like the regular website? That really annoys me so much. Every few days I type a question in the GPT tab I always have open, it realises I was kicked out and shows me the login screen. After logging in my question is gone and I have to type it again. Grrr..
Re: ChatGPT app for iOS
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think most of the OpenAI's target audience must be technical enough to know they can access websites on a smartphone and bookmark them in some way. They probably just want to fight abuse/spam/fraud/scams that are on the App Store/Play store so that it would stop devaluing their brand. "ChatGPT charged my card $299 without permission, I am going to the press!" is a disaster waiting to happen with these scammy apps.
The ChatGPT webapp audience is almost entirely nontechnical, which is the primary reason it went viral and so many people got fooled by fakes. It is different from developers who are using the ChatGPT API to build apps.
Really? So many people tell me how great ChatGPT is at helping development and developers are pretty much by definition technical people.
Also, the signup process is far from easy. People here often cry about how "difficult" it is to sign up for Mastodon or Matrix etc and that is why the mainstream don't use it. Yet this is the same :)
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
The blatant OpenAI brand infringement in all the non-official apps is extremely frustrating. It just further weakens Apple’s arguments for their locked down store and app review process. How does anyone (outside HN perhaps) have any hope of finding the official one? And what are we (Apple users) paying our “Apple tax” for when the app store quality control processes have sunk so low?
> And what are we (Apple users) paying our “Apple tax” for when the app store quality control processes have sunk so low? Lack of competition. If Android counts as competition then switch to Android.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
The App Store has had a problem with cold starts for a few years now. I remember a few years ago when I worked on App Store search it was a known problem when apps like Disney+ were released and users were searching directly for a new app immediately.
Exactly this, it takes a few days before the app will be indexed.
I wonder what on earth takes a few days, this is not a DNS record...
Re: ChatGPT app for iOS
#186Says not available in my region (UK)?
Re: ChatGPT app for iOS
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love my iPhone but god damn does apple suck at a number of things. It’s 2023, and they have a terabyte of storage but they won’t store more than 100 numbers in your call history. Like what.
How about being able to edit a copied phone number? Like maybe I want to add a country code? No, the only way to do it is to make a new contact and then edit it? Ok… Or how about search a pdf on my phone? Really? I can’t? Huh… so random…
That's so weird, that's the first option on Android if you long-press a number on the call history.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love my iPhone but god damn does apple suck at a number of things. It’s 2023, and they have a terabyte of storage but they won’t store more than 100 numbers in your call history. Like what.
How about being able to edit a copied phone number? Like maybe I want to add a country code? No, the only way to do it is to make a new contact and then edit it? Ok… Or how about search a pdf on my phone? Really? I can’t? Huh… so random…
> Or how about search a pdf on my phone?
Open it in iBooks, which also runs ocr on the pdf, and hit the magnifying glass.
Re: ChatGPT app for iOS
#190Why is this an app? What does it enable that the website can't?
Apps can open faster than a webpage, for one thing, which is convenient for a tool you're using all the time.
(I say this as someone who resisted making an app for AutoTempest for years based on the same logic, but finally caved to the fact that a lot of people just prefer them. Something I'm now coming to understand as I wait eagerly for a ChatGPT app...)