> It’s also a genuinely dangerous deal for OpenAI, and shows that while Sam Altman might be capable of swindling Silicon Valley startups, he doesn’t have what it takes to bend Apple to his will.
Sidebar; we are talking about the guy that needed government subpoenas to stop indiscriminately scanning people's eyeballs for a global alternative currency company. I understand the willingness to write Sam Altman off as a desperate sycophant that wanted to close this deal at any cost, but you also have to give consideration to the opposite. If OpenAI is willing to take a material loss on integrating this feature, they must expect some form of capital gain from the integration. Everyone knows Apple is famously cagey; making a sweetheart deal early-on makes it harder for competitors to break in later as alternatives.
So if we let Tim cook, along the current regressive path of service-izing everything that exists, I'm not sure if I'll be very hungry for more AI. My cynical side says that both OpenAI and Apple are eager to create integrations worth paying a monthly subscription for.
Sidebar; we are talking about the guy that needed government subpoenas to stop indiscriminately scanning people's eyeballs for a global alternative currency company. I understand the willingness to write Sam Altman off as a desperate sycophant that wanted to close this deal at any cost, but you also have to give consideration to the opposite. If OpenAI is willing to take a material loss on integrating this feature, they must expect some form of capital gain from the integration. Everyone knows Apple is famously cagey; making a sweetheart deal early-on makes it harder for competitors to break in later as alternatives.
So if we let Tim cook, along the current regressive path of service-izing everything that exists, I'm not sure if I'll be very hungry for more AI. My cynical side says that both OpenAI and Apple are eager to create integrations worth paying a monthly subscription for.