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adithyassekhar | 3 days ago

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wlesieutre|3 days ago

Easy for me to download a different app. Not easy for me to get everyone I communicate with to download a different app.

I don't see the laziness lock in working nearly as effectively for something outside of messaging.

nouveaux|3 days ago

Coca Cola would like to have a word with you.

These models respond differently and have their own "personality". Even in coding, there are people who swear by one model over the other. I know engineers who just stick with Claude and could not care to try Codex. For them, if it's not broken, why fix it?

louiereederson|3 days ago

Apple is a two sided market between developers and users. OpenAI has not succeeded in building this so far.

niam|3 days ago

When unstructured human language is the bulk of your interface, it takes effort to contrive any vendor lock-in that doesn't approach zero.

The same doesn't go for traditional, structured software ecosystems, which can afford to coast for a lot longer.

DrScientist|3 days ago

Sorry - being dim - I don't get that.

WarmWash|3 days ago

Apple has offered products with little value over competitors for a long time now, but they still get to command a large premium on their products because "the vibes are right".

When engineers analyze things they look at the specs, stats, and metrics. When consumers analyze things they look at what others are doing, feel for vibes, roll into the convenience, and stick with the familiar.

adithyassekhar|3 days ago

There's this thing called power of defaults.

If a setting is default, if an app is presented on the front they'll continue to use it as it is. The crowd here always overestimates how competent/interested the general public are in these things.

99.9% (source: my life) of users never even open the second level of the settings app. 99% don't even open the settings app. They don't know how much they can even change or care.

iPhones auto surfacing airpods to pair with was not for convenience it was a necessity. People don't know how to pair with bluetooth. Now android does it as well.

There's a generation that grew up with appliances that accounted for their mistakes rather than failing. There's no need to learn or understand how something works.

fatata123|3 days ago

You’re comparing a single app with an entire ecosystem and app marketplace. Poor comparison.