[adithyassekhar]

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.

[DrScientist]

Sure defaults are extremely powerful - but that's rather my point - where is the default that OpenAI controls?

Google, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft ( and various Chinese companies ) etc are largely are in control of defaults - via devices and browsers.

Perhaps in Github copilot ( via MS ) - but software developers are not typical consumers.

Perhaps Sam and johnnies new assistant thing will transform the market - but until that ships it's vapour ware.

[adithyassekhar]

Yes this was not relevant to the main topic of openai. I'm just responding to the statement made by the parent comment.