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Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

#82
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The in-app purchase to upgrade to plus is very smooth…

Is the cancellation process just as smooth?

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

#83
post #26

Jeez, the app is impossible to find among all the fakes. I had to go to openai's website and use the link there.

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?

> How does anyone (outside HN perhaps) have any hope of finding the official one?

Easy. Out of all the ChatGPT wrapper clones on the App Store, Apple will promote OpenAI's app first, and remove the fakes if they wanted to. Only a selected few 'approved' competitor AI chatbot apps on the App Store will be still around.

This just shows that almost none of these AI chatbot apps have a moat and can be easily wiped out with a push of a red button, even if they are using the GPT-4 API.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

#86
It's not available on the Paraguayan App Store yet. The same thing happened with ChatGPT itself, it wasn't available in Paraguay for a couple of months and no explanation as to why. I get that it's a free research preview and they don't have to, but it would be nice if I could get these things when most others do.

I can switch stores but would need to cancel subscriptions.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

#87
post #45

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

Interesting, yes, that make sense, there should be resellers. It is not clear how much of that money ended up going to Apple and paying for the OpenAI API access.

Is Apple going to get their cut from the paying customers of OpenAI, by the way?

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

#88

Just this week, GPT-4 helped me: * Find new artists to listen that combine techno with psytrance * Navigate a tricky personal communication situation * Debug a LOT of different issues * Write new code in a language I'm not really familiar with * Explore political ideas through simulated debate * Search current visa requirements * Find answers to some random history questions * Calculate whether my tent would be blown…

Mobile web works. I don't know if their signups block non-US phone numbers (they require a phone number for surveillance, er, security purposes).

Not really. When I close Safari, the answer generation stops.

Re: ChatGPT app for iOS

#89

Just this week, GPT-4 helped me: * Find new artists to listen that combine techno with psytrance * Navigate a tricky personal communication situation * Debug a LOT of different issues * Write new code in a language I'm not really familiar with * Explore political ideas through simulated debate * Search current visa requirements * Find answers to some random history questions * Calculate whether my tent would be blown…

> Name some very abstract variables Curious what you mean by this?

Unfortunately, I can't answer this question without breaking my NDA
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