Not sure that makes for a profitable business.

Thank you. Thatâ(TM)s what I suspected. In the end, the majors will just because they are known and trusted, even though theyâ(TM)re not trustworthy. Itâ(TM)s the same reason why people take uber and lyft even when they can hop in a nearby cab for half the price of surge pricing: they have forgotten about cabs.

I was ignorant of that fact. What percent of apps are distributed that way?

Apple will be better off if it opens up the platform. New app stores will have a very hard time to keep the offerings clean and to weed out malicious software. As a result, they will be discredited very quickly and users will return to Apple's app store. The barrier to entry is REALLY high here. Ensuring user safety is extremely expensive to implement across millions of apps. Apple's is legitimately concerned that such outcomes will hurt its brand, but that is a very unlikely outcome. Witness the fact that very, very few Android app stores have survived. Even Amazon quit because it wasn't profitable enough. The optics are pretty good for Apple's app store.

Sufficient grounds for war, if you ask me. lol

I presume it's the promise of getting a sweetheart of a deal on all the new features that OpenAI will add to their services once it has digested all the data. I can't conceive of any service that would make this handover of data profitable. Zitron's characterization of all this as the "rot economy" is very apt. There is absolutely no value proposition for the end user.

Exactly! They have made 80% of their seats conform to the budget airline model, and anything better costs incrementally more.

Yes! Yours is way better than mine. It's also the perfect response to this idiotic comment by Putin.

First response that's right on the money.

Government throttle you.

It has worked pretty well for Apple. :)

In Russia, phone calls you. Ok, not a good one, but this story is just ripe for one of these "in Russia" jokes. Please offer yours in your reply.

Trump is eager to go to Russia, isn't he?

I get to avoid shitty search results AND hallucinations.

Couldn't agree more. This explains why they were up today. I may have been wrong in selling MSFT.