[sophia01]

It's Coca Cola vs Pepsi. Yes some might even say Pepsi has been shown to taste better, but people still buy loads of Coke.

Of course the tech savvy enterprises will use the best models. But the plumber down the road doesn't care whether she asks Gemini or ChatGPT about the sizing of some fittings.

[adgjlsfhk1]

right, but casual users aren't paying (and won't ever)

[littlestymaar]

Users aren't paying for Google or Facebook either. Advertisers do.

[array_key_first]

Right, again, even if you take every advertiser in the world and shove them in a dungeon and then point a cannon at them and say "give me all the money you have", you won't even have 1/10th the money you need.

Everyone is vastly, vastly overestimating advertising. Advertising is a side hustle, because the product is the main hustle.

[littlestymaar]

Yet Google built an empire on advertising money alone, and Facebook became one of the biggest company in the world on that business as well.

I think your are the one vastly underestimate advertising.

[array_key_first]

Yes, and if you take all that money, it's not even 1/10 enough.

Consumers can spend what they can spend. Not even 1 quadrillion dollars in advertising can change that. There is a hard, hard cap to the value of advertisement because of that. It's just how the thing works.

[littlestymaar]

Please tell me how being the third and 7th biggest companies in the world is “not even 1/10 enough” …

“Enough” for what exactly?