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Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Are you outside the US? I got the same results, but then realised it's only available in the US at the moment.

I am in the US and had the same issue - ended up installing it by finding the announcement post and clicking through from there.

I am in the EU and finding the announcement post and clicking on it gives me a blank page.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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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…

I had an iphone for like 3 years before I found out how to do text search in Safari. Not sure why they make it so hard to find.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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I spent an hour writing a small Signal bot, and I've had ChatGPT on my phone for ages. The experience is the best out of any client I've used, as it's just a chat. I prefer it over a full fledged app.

This is actually quite appealing to me. Do you mind if I ask what if any framework you used to do this?

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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Ridiculous take on multiple fronts, man. -> The thing was released like two months ago, think what LLMs will do in like 10 years. -> They likely want an industrial scale indestructible app for their multi-million $ product, they can take at least three months to build it.

Considering they have hundreds of employees who are literally experts in using GPT-4, including evaluating it's code output, I think it's fair to expect they could produce an 'industrial scale indestructible' android app simultaneously with the iOS app. Especially considering GPT-4 was, allegedly, complete by August 2022. If it doesn't even enable 2x or 3x the output after a half year of familiarization then I think…

How do you know it hasn't 3x their output? For all we know this app was written by one guy while he was waiting for his code to compile.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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I spent an hour writing a small Signal bot, and I've had ChatGPT on my phone for ages. The experience is the best out of any client I've used, as it's just a chat. I prefer it over a full fledged app.

This is actually quite appealing to me. Do you mind if I ask what if any framework you used to do this?

I used signald, pysignald, and ChatGPT-bot:

https://pypi.org/project/chatgpt-bot/

I can probably publish the code somewhere, if you're interested.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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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…

The top four here are pretty much the biggest reasons I use an Android rather than an iPhone

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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My experience: - literally impossible to find on the App store, even when searched for by its exact name caps and all; only able to get it by navigating from OpenAI page - weekend-project level UX - no access to my Beta plugins or browsing My conclusion: This is a placeholder, not a product.

In new chats yes, you can't use plugins, but you can create a new minimal chat on desktop with plugins, code interpreter, or browser and it seems to work fine when you open that convo in the app history.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

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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.

15 years after introducing Apple Store it is still shit at finding apps, even though I am willing to pay. The search function is just a disaster. You need to use Google and the web to find anything.
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