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by zarzavat 11 days ago
It's insane to cross Apple. In the worst case Apple could take the ChatGPT app down like they did to Fortnite. They are probably waiting for discovery to find out how high this goes.
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> Apple could take the ChatGPT app down

No. If Apple did that without a basis in their own App Store policies, they'd spawn antitrust cases. OpenAI damages are a droplet compared to the App Store revenues.

> It's insane to cross Apple

... on the question of employee confidentiality. Because the IP landscape is so muddled, they try hard to keep employees happy (most don't leave), and they're very, very good at writing, securing, and enforcing confidentiality agreements.

Well, the EU won't allow it.
IIRC Apple have been allowed to remove Fornite from the Apple Store, they just fall foul of the EU Digital Markets Act / DMA (?) when also blocking the Epic Games Store as a route to add/sideload it.

Removing ChatGPT due to ToS violations seems like it would be ok.

Maybe.

Depends if they hate Apple or OpenAI more.

Apple has a decade of beef with EU.

OpenAI has a lot ot catchup on the EU hate scale.

Eu person: neither. We'd rather have the Chinese.
Yeah, I feel like given two bad choices the EU’s tendency would be to go with a third, worse option.
the US is looking to break up the EU and is sending its rich people to make riots and violence.

choosing chinese seems like a shoo in for better operators