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by tailspin2019 1134 days ago
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?
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2OEH8eoCRo0 1134 days ago
> And what are we (Apple users) paying our “Apple tax” for when the app store quality control processes have sunk so low?

Lack of competition. If Android counts as competition then switch to Android.

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rvz 1134 days ago
> 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.

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