This article seems to be conflating a lot of things. Saying that they avoided naming it like it was the given choice is quite the flawed assumption. The ChatGP

This article seems to be conflating a lot of things. Saying that they avoided naming it like it was the given choice is quite the flawed assumption. The ChatGPT app itself was a very thin veneer over an online service. It utilizes almost no facilities of the smartphone client, has no local AI or unique intelligence of the device. Indeed, OpenAI left the field open and before they came out with their own there were a myriad of competing facades that were effectively interchangeable. I don't see why that would earn app of the year. I wouldn't even put it in the general conversation.