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Mobile ads and app stores make Apple and Google too much money for them to truly revolutionize mobile phone user interfaces. Anything that even threatens those
by com2kid 3y ago
Mobile ads and app stores make Apple and Google too much money for them to truly revolutionize mobile phone user interfaces.
Anything that even threatens those business models will be strangled before it gets released.
IMHO Microsoft has the most to gain here. If they manage to turn Apple and Android into platforms that interface with MS made/ran/hosted LLMs, MS wins the day.
The problem is monetization, these LLM services are expensive, and telling users they need to pay another $30 a month to use their phone will be a hard sell. Hopefully LLM hosting costs go down, but if hosting LLMs becomes too affordable, MS's giant war chest of $ and hardware become less of an advantage.
The other danger is Apple/Google throwing a bunch of restrictions in place, but all the anti-trust scrutiny they are under right now could give them pause on attempting that.