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Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by yreg »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #210
yreg wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web version is very far from perfect on an iPhone. It keeps logging me out, the copying UX is subpar… And god forbid I lock my phone while I'm getting a completion back. It stops mid sentence and there is no way to continue with it. Which (locking one's phone for a bit while interacting with it) is a very valid use case if you are doing stuff with your hands and want to put the phone in your pocket for a bit. I'm…

“Perfectly fine” does not mean perfect, it means it’s usable. And it’s not like the parent commenter doesn’t agree that an app is useful.

'Perfectly fine' definitely doesn't mean 'usable' in my dictionary.

But I see that perhaps the parent didn't mean to say that the web version can do everything the app does, so I have edited my comment to be less confrontational. Thanks.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by AJRF »

ricardobayes wrote: post #185
calderwoodra wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Apple + The Web is a match made in hell.

All of their services that are network heavy (TV, iCloud, Apple Music, News, Safari Sync) are so slow and do huge full reloads of every bit of state, so you just constantly see loading spinners, or worse in iCloud, you see nothing and eventually it will pop all the new stuff in to view, with no way to force a refresh.

I get that CAP theorem exists, but other providers at least seems to understand opportunistic sync and do a job of making it work for the user, but Apple seems to think that inconsistent views over data can't be helped and that every user should understand eventual consistency.

Their SDKs for syncing data to iCloud have long been a joke in the developer community and I think there have been 3 attempts at getting CoreData -> iCloud working, with the last iteration NSPersistentCloudKitContainer often being used as the [butt of jokes, a case study on poor networking talent at Apple] among iOS developers.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by mullingitover »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #93

I clicked on the link on my PC. Noted the name of the app ("Openai ChatGP") and the description ("The official app by OpenAI") I opened App Store on my iPhone and typed the name of the app, verbatim . The official/correct app was not in the first 20 entries (which is as far as I was willing to scroll). Which, to me: 1. Shows why an official app is needed even though the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone and…

> ...the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone

I imagine this is their MVP, and they're going to iterate and start adding more iOS specific stuff. It'd be nice to be able to hook it into Siri natively (since we can't just rip out Siri and replace it with ChatGPT).

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by unethical_ban »

nozzlegear wrote: post #61
unethical_ban wrote: post #47

Didn't they bring it to iOS with https://chat.openai.com ? Normalize people using the web. And FirefoxAndroid... don't refresh an idle tab unless I tell you to!

One problem I have with their website is that it constantly signs me out. It’s why I ended up downloading an app (GeePeeTee had the best privacy policy I could find) to use their service personally.

A valid complaint, though that isn't a lack of capability in the browser, it's a big of the site.

I think that happened to me a while back, but I haven't had a problem with it in weeks.

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Post by CyberKimura »

waboremo wrote: post #122
NikolaNovak wrote: post #93

I clicked on the link on my PC. Noted the name of the app ("Openai ChatGP") and the description ("The official app by OpenAI") I opened App Store on my iPhone and typed the name of the app, verbatim . The official/correct app was not in the first 20 entries (which is as far as I was willing to scroll). Which, to me: 1. Shows why an official app is needed even though the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone and…

To #3, to users the benefit is absolutely nothing. There are still so many garbage apps. To Apple, the benefit is enormous. What happens when garbage apps get better ranking? Companies pay for that sponsored position. Once they do, Apple then starts ranking them better and gets to claim they "monitor quality" when it was never about quality on the App Store.

My favorite is "Microsoft Authenticator" not being the first result when searching for it by name. I don't have an iPhone but I have to tell all my users to make sure the icon matches the registration page for O365's MFA registration.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by NationalPark »

drewda wrote: post #163

> P.S. Android users, you're next! ChatGPT will be coming to your devices soon. I'm getting a good chuckle out of this. The thought-leaders have been warning us that large language models will put 99% of professionals out of work and will threaten the nature of human existence... and yet today's leading LLM apparently can't be used to generate code for a boilerplate user interface using the Android SDK.

This made me wonder, are there any public examples of codebases written entirely (or almost entirely, with human curated parts noted) by GPT-4?

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Post by wahnfrieden »

startupsfail wrote: post #220
wahnfrieden wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no. and you won’t be able to start paying from inside the app.

It seems rather unwise of Apple to invite that OpenAI/Plugin marketplace without some kind of an agreement. No plugins right now in the App, but they’ll be coming, no?

Why would they do something special? This already exists. Apple is fine with it as long as they don’t solicit payment in the app / direct users outside the app.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by hackernewds »

valgaze wrote: post #45
minimaxir wrote: post #4

This 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"

Can't find the chart, but several of those wrapper apps made $1MMs in revenue too https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fake-chatgpt-apps-raking-tho... The Chart: https://i.imgur.com/IYC0Pcb.png

Why not? Isn't that the business model of OpenAI? Provide access to the APIs for wrappers that are not their own products - simple as they may. Bradgpt comes to mind

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Post by nonethewiser »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #93

I clicked on the link on my PC. Noted the name of the app ("Openai ChatGP") and the description ("The official app by OpenAI") I opened App Store on my iPhone and typed the name of the app, verbatim . The official/correct app was not in the first 20 entries (which is as far as I was willing to scroll). Which, to me: 1. Shows why an official app is needed even though the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone and…

I was just going to post the same thing. Im not surprised someone else shared but im surprised it was the top comment.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by dwighttk »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #93

I clicked on the link on my PC. Noted the name of the app ("Openai ChatGP") and the description ("The official app by OpenAI") I opened App Store on my iPhone and typed the name of the app, verbatim . The official/correct app was not in the first 20 entries (which is as far as I was willing to scroll). Which, to me: 1. Shows why an official app is needed even though the web version works perfectly fine on iPhone and…

fwiw, you seem to have left a "T" off the end
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