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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 subtitl
by minimaxir 3y ago
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"
- tristanb 3y agoits basically impossible to find via app store search.
- pb7 3y agoIt takes some time to index.
- notsrg 3y agoalso had the same issue. Figured after the first page it would probably show up but I scrolled multiple pages and still nothing.
- elboru 3y agoThere’s a direct link on the article. It’s not available in my country though. Or at least that’s the error message I got. Update: “We're starting our rollout in the US and will expand to additional countries in the coming weeks”
- dag11 3y agoYeah. I saw this announcement, and searched both "chatgpt" and "open ai" (sic, as auto-suggested) in the App Store and gave up scrolling looking for it. The unofficial app logos look waaaay closer to the ChatGPT logo than the official white logo does, and the SEO (ASO?) seems poor. Not sure what either party can do about it though, but it's a disappointing situation.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoIsn’t this what the Apple 30% tax is supposed to help pay for and facilitate? If it doesn’t solve this problem, what is its purpose and value?
- Tagbert 3y agoI just tried it and it was the first algorithmic listing. The first listing was for another app fir AI chat with a very familiar looking logo.
- DavideNL 3y agoYea, AppStore search is terrible. I often revert to my webbrowser/search engine to search for AppStore apps, because i can't find them in the AppStore.
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- clnq 3y agoThere is probably no other reason to bring this app to iOS and Android. ChatGPT works very well as a PWA added to home screens.
- gkoberger 3y agoI mostly agree, but the average person doesn't know that's even an option. They hear "You should use ChatGPT!" and they go straight to the app store to try it out.
- criddell 3y agoThat's probably a good thing. When non-technical users go looking for free apps outside of any official app store, the chances of installing malware go way up. source: I used to do tech support for my family
- minimaxir 3y agoThe typical nontech user doesn't know what a PWA is, which is why native apps in the App Store are still very important.
- clnq 3y agoI think most of the OpenAI's target audience must be technical enough to know they can access websites on a smartphone and bookmark them in some way. They probably just want to fight abuse/spam/fraud/scams that are on the App Store/Play store so that it would stop devaluing their brand. "ChatGPT charged my card $299 without permission, I am going to the press!" is a disaster waiting to happen with these scammy apps.
- robertlagrant 3y agoNot at all - loads of people use ChatGPT. Far, far more than would know about PWAs.
- minimaxir 3y agoThe ChatGPT webapp audience is almost entirely nontechnical, which is the primary reason it went viral and so many people got fooled by fakes. It is different from developers who are using the ChatGPT API to build apps.
- hospitalJail 3y ago>very many fake ChatGPT apps But its for our security to have a closed ecosyste---Walled Garden. Woah there, almost didn't stick to the marketing that we were all taught.
- latexr 3y agoI don’t recall ever hearing Apple PR calling iOS a “walled garden”. Outside of tech I doubt most people would understand what that means. The operative word is “curated”.
- surgical_fire 3y agoSo well curated, it seems.
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- alvah 3y agoI too am surprised to learn Apple PR have never used a mild pejorative to describe their own product.
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- valgaze 3y agoCan't find the chart, but several of those wrapper apps made $1MMs in revenue too https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fake-chatgpt-apps-raking-thousands-154124743.html https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fake-chatgpt-apps-raking-tho... The Chart: https://i.imgur.com/IYC0Pcb.png https://i.imgur.com/IYC0Pcb.png
- startupsfail 3y agoInteresting, 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?
- wahnfrieden 3y agono. and you won’t be able to start paying from inside the app.
- startupsfail 3y agoIt 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?
- wahnfrieden 3y agoWhy 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.
- AdamJacobMuller 3y agoPlugins work fine in the app. It’s just a nice webview basically.
- samyok 3y agoYou can start a ChatGPT Plus subscription from inside the linked app.
- danielrhodes 3y agoMy guess is OpenAI now has a case to ask Apple to remove these apps for trademark infringement and brand confusion. Obviously they can just rename themselves but keep the same functionality, but marketing themselves as ChatGPT is no longer going to fly.
- ra 3y agoI'm in Australia. Searching for "openai chatgpt" returns all those third-party wrappers, but not the official one.
- nevster 3y agoTried link from blog post - "App is currently not available in your country". They say in the post they'll roll it out to other countries in the coming weeks.