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The recent prioritisation of the Apple ecosystem is interesting. Sorra, Atlas, buying Sky. There have been signs that Apple is going with Anthropic instead of
by the_duke 1y ago
The recent prioritisation of the Apple ecosystem is interesting.
Sorra, Atlas, buying Sky.
There have been signs that Apple is going with Anthropic instead of OpenAI for integrating AI features.
This may partially be an aggressive strategic push to take the wind of out such a potential partnership.
- Jianghong94 1y agoMy take is that it's a standalone business consideration: Apple users are more inclined to pay for software (definitely the case for iPhone vs. Android, although I haven't found a source for Windows).
- notatoad 1y agojust from my own anecdotal experience, it's easy to prioritize apple because apple users are not only more inclined to pay for software, they're more inclined to use it. even on web apps that are exactly the same across platforms my experience is you might more signups from windows users because somebody told them "hey, you should check this out", but the metrics on actual usuage usually favor the mac users.
- locusofself 1y agoI was surprised by the launch of the chatGPT desktop app for mac only, and then Sora only for iOS. Kinda seems like a middle-finger to Microsoft, which is strange considering how closely MS and OpenAI were aligned not long ago.
- radicaldreamer 1y agoThe first version of Microsoft Office was Mac only.
- the_duke 1y ago> Kinda seems like a middle-finger to Microsoft I think it might be more the opposite! They could be staying away to not intrude into Microsoft's "turf". MS is also pushing lots of AI integrations.
- DeathArrow 1y agoI think MS wants to roll their own AI stuff even if they might also using OpenAI in the backend. If we look at Github Copilot it can use multiple LLMs.
- marcellus23 1y agoThe ChatGPT app for Mac seems to be based on the same codebase as their iOS app (either using Catalyst or SwiftUI), so the lift to bring it to Mac was probably much less than creating a fully-native Windows app. Even today their "Windows" app is a wrapper around a web view.
- saagarjha 1y agoIt’s AppKit, actually.
- marcellus23 1y agoEntirely AppKit? Do you have a source? I'm skeptical because it seems to behave like an iOS app ported to the Mac and has the exact same interface layout as the iOS app. Beside that, maintaining a separate AppKit implementation would be a lot of extra work that doesn't seem worth it (though of course, if anyone has money to burn on that, it's OpenAI). I suppose it's more likely that the main chat interface and other highly custom views have separate implementations on macOS and iOS, while the Settings view is shared SwiftUI code (since it's just a lot of buttons and toggles).
- saagarjha 1y agoYes, it’s something like that. They have some shared SwiftUI code and AppKit for platform native stuff
- mohsen1 1y agoI think Apple will acquire Anthropic soon. It makes a lot of sense for both sides