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Re: Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

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Post by dylan604 »

emodendroket wrote: post #20
dylan604 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Either I've fallen in with a unique group of non-techy people willing to pay for an LLM subscription, or you just not giving enough credit to it. I guess time will tell

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5791661/chatgpt-gemini-... > Only about 3% of households were paying for AI in February, using the most recent numbers available from the Bank of America Institute, which researches consumer trends based on the bank's customer transactions. But even among these people I doubt most spring for the $100 plans, let alone are willing to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars per user the…

The funniest part of all of this is that, I as a techy dev type person, pay $0 for any LLM account. No, I'm not cheating with a paid by employer account. I just don't use it. So I guess my little group is breaking all of the stereotypes

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Post by Grombobulous »

Grimblewald wrote: post #4

Cheaper isn't as much of a problem as functional.

If I were to guess, cheaper in this context is being used by Apple to catch up to having an AI product with a real moat.

And, of course, Apple’s best moat is the App Store.

The other competitors have their coding and productivity software, all the stuff they built around their models.

Apple doesn’t really have much of that and I think this is essentially their only hope to gain some B2B revenue from AI.

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Post by ido »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #26

the small developers eager to pay the Apple tax! I wonder what the theoretical size of this set is.

I run a company of 4 people (including myself) and the "apple tax" (if by that you mean the price premium of macs and iphones vs PC and android) is a tiny fraction (borderline rounding error) of my budget.

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Post by trvz »

ido wrote: post #27
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #26

the small developers eager to pay the Apple tax! I wonder what the theoretical size of this set is.

I run a company of 4 people (including myself) and the "apple tax" (if by that you mean the price premium of macs and iphones vs PC and android) is a tiny fraction (borderline rounding error) of my budget.

Apple tax generally refers to the 30% cut on app and in-app sales.

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Post by NietTim »

trvz wrote: post #28
ido wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run a company of 4 people (including myself) and the "apple tax" (if by that you mean the price premium of macs and iphones vs PC and android) is a tiny fraction (borderline rounding error) of my budget.

Apple tax generally refers to the 30% cut on app and in-app sales.

It's 15% for small developers
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