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Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by NikolaNovak »

ramraj07 wrote: post #166
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 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.

Oh, I didn't mean to start an iPhone rant, but if we're going there...

* Let me put the icon where I want it. seriously. if my OCD wants this icon on bottom right of my screen, let me!

* Let me have an icon in multiple places. if my OCD wants this app in both "Media" and "Entertainment" folder, let me!

* Allow me to put stuff onto the phone. Via USB. Like every other god damn device in the world.

* Allow me to take stuff off my phone. Via USB. Like very other freakin' device in the world.

(my wife knows the exact shriek that comes out of my home office every ~6months when I try to take all my photos off my iPhone or put some videos onto it for travel. I've given up every time. My co-workers who love iPhone always have a wonderful system that sounds like "Email it to yourself then FTP it to your dropbox account and then download it in the browser and then..... - I assume that's how XKCD got the idea https://xkcd.com/763/)

* Downloading and opening files is an incredible hit and miss of what happens where and how.

* 3.5mm. And yes I blame Apple for starting the trend :)

I have a list somewhere I wrote down when people ask me why my phone is called "iHateApple". I'll see if I can dig it up :)

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by jwr »

"This app is not available in your country or region"

Seriously?

When is this idiotic corporate idea going to die? Internet has no regions.

(BTW, I pay for ChatGPT plus)

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by airstrike »

rkapsoro wrote: post #145
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…

Are you outside the US? It seems to be region locked to US right now, so all of the third party frontend apps are all you see when searching from elsewhere.

This happens in the US too.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by moffkalast »

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.

Me, using a perfectly functional autogenerated PWA: sensible chuckle

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by zamnos »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #261
ramraj07 wrote: post #166

Earlier 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.

Oh, I didn't mean to start an iPhone rant, but if we're going there... * Let me put the icon where I want it. seriously. if my OCD wants this icon on bottom right of my screen, let me! * Let me have an icon in multiple places. if my OCD wants this app in both "Media" and "Entertainment" folder, let me! * Allow me to put stuff onto the phone. Via USB. Like every other god damn device in the world. * Allow me to take s…

Not to get in the way of a good rant, but https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJYT2AM/A/lightning-to-sd... lets me copy photos to the phone just fine.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by NikolaNovak »

yreg wrote: post #221
mynameisvlad wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“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.

Right. OP here, FWIW, in my colloquial English (right or wrong:) "Perfect" is, well, perfect; does everything I want and cannot be meaningfully improved.

"Perfectly Fine" on the other hand, the key word is "fine". It is "eh. It mostly does the job. I cannot begrudge it too much. I have bigger things to rant about. It's perfectly fine."

"Fine" is like "Nice". It's fine. It's nice. Note quite "Good", let alone "Amazing". But it's fine. Perfectly so :)

(I empathize with all of your pain points, particularly the stopping of generation if my screen locks. I have employer-mandated iPhone which has draconian locking policies which are pretty close to average time of query generation. I wonder if app will have the same issue?)

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Post by codazoda »

ramraj07 wrote: post #166
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 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.

I can't help but add... Please let me set the snooze timeout on alarms. Hard coded to seven minutes, really?
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