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by jmclnx 3 days ago
>Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs

Good luck, but define "cheaper" ? If you have to pay, no individual will pay, just corporations.

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How do you come to this conclusion. I know several people that are absolutely not techy dev types, yet they pay for a subscription to chatgpt.
You can get a certain portion of the population to pay $20/mo. but I think it's a very small population who's paying enough to actually cover frontier models in agentic workflows right now.
Either I've fallen in with a unique group of non-techy people willing to pay for an LLM subscription, or you just not giving enough credit to it. I guess time will tell
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/04/nx-s1-5791661/chatgpt-gemini-...

> Only about 3% of households were paying for AI in February, using the most recent numbers available from the Bank of America Institute, which researches consumer trends based on the bank's customer transactions.

But even among these people I doubt most spring for the $100 plans, let alone are willing to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars per user the way corporate users do.

The funniest part of all of this is that, I as a techy dev type person, pay $0 for any LLM account. No, I'm not cheating with a paid by employer account. I just don't use it. So I guess my little group is breaking all of the stereotypes
> If you have to pay, no individual will pay

Fee with ads is the right fit for most people. But I don't think that describes most Apple customers or developers.