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Apple Denies Musk's ChatGPT Favoritism Claims, Says App Store Has No Bias
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Not true. Featuring an app does not infer it's a highly rated app, just that (probably) the developer paid Apple to feature it. It's a billboard for the app. A restaurant can feature a new dish, but since it's a new dish, it has no history or ratings. Two completely different things.
So there’s bias towards those who pay them?
I think what most developers would say, especially small ones, is that what gets featured and why is a pretty subjective black box.
I can't stand Musk, but that doesn't mean he may not have some point here, from some angle at least.
All fair, but I do think what gets featured by Apple is subjective.
That involves various biases.
Again - I HATE MUSK
But I don't let that fully color my view on what he's saying here, even if I think he's more so just trolling.
So getting rid of governmental waste is “damage” now?
I didn’t know such disgusting statism was so popular around here. Must be all those caviar leftists preaching from Californistan’s altar.
We can all guess a lot of things that probably happens. The fact is, there is an abundance of stories from app developers that didn’t know their app got featured until they saw a sudden spike in users. On the other hand, I have never heard a story, even a rumoured one, that someone paid to be featured (outside of the clearly marked ads of course). Being featured is an editorial process. Doesn’t mean the app is good, just that they feel it is interesting for the users.
I think it is more likely the problem is that he CAN’T just pay to get what he wants, like he is used to. That’s why he is whining.
The manner in which he did it was pretty damaging, which is why a lot of the firings are being undone.
I'm not from California, heck I'm not even left wing. Swing and a miss there.
As of the past several years, with the exception of VST plugins and DAW software (Ableton Live), my software purchased for my Mac are done almost exclusively, by choice, from the Mac App Store. I trust the store, just like I trust the store for my iPad and iPhone apps. That Apple gets 30% of my purchase price matters to me, not at all. What matters is, the developer gets a robust place to position their software, and I get to know Apple is not allowing software on its store that is likely to bring down or otherwise inappropriately hijack my Mac. Thanks Apple. Nice work!
It looks to me like the most beneficial thing out of DOGE was to him personally ... eliminating threats of litigation and regulation of his various interests.
Also, by gutting certain things, he's further solidified his own interests as the best "options" for Private takeover of formerly Public functions.
It was all self dealing, just like Trump.
How anyone objectively disagrees with that really highlights how polluted ones information sources appear to be.
That's usually how advertising works... you pay for it.
LOL! Paying to have your app "featured" is called doing business. Anyone can pay to do so. There is no bias no more than a grocery store putting a certain product on an endcap is showing bias towards that product when in fact, the product company paid extra for the exposure.
We are assuming Apple would take his money and actually feature X/Grok related things.
That's an unknown here. It's possible they would not.
This is a pretty unique and delicate situation given how Musk behaves and the kind of "content" circling around on X and coming out of Grok.
I have an iPhone and Apple Watch myself (which I both love). But I do think APIs for watches, headphones, payment, music etc should be fully open for third parties.
If third parties come up with better products at better prices, then Apple is forced to compete and react with better products themselves. That is the whole principle of a competitive market.
Making restricted OS APIs to benefit your own products is just very anti competitive and benefits no one but Apple.
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Indeed. But what you or I or Musk think is unfortunately entirely irrelevant.
What matters only is that someone provides evidence and we can use basic reasoning to assess this sitution.
It requires analysis or legal action to disclose the mathematical model Apple use to rank these things. Musk made a completely unverified, and importantly unverifiable point with the expectation that he can create social pressure through his supporters for his perspective. There is no evidence presented, there is no data presented and there is no model provided from which the conclusion he is making is drawn.
Apple made a completely unverified but verifiable point in return. They control and understand the model. They would not have said the latter if the lawyers hadn't signed it off. The cost of verifying it is Musk having to sue them and lose a hell of a lot of money finding out.
Really I expect someone who is making extraordinary claims to back that up with evidence as someone writing a paper would.
I with the same level of veracity claim that Musk is a catfish and spends 80% of the day stuck to an office window. There you go.
(which is incidentally the same level of veracity used on DOGE's analysis of US government waste)
It's probably not even that. If you go outside the tech and news bubble most of us here reside within, they may not have even heard of Grok. I don't know anyone who speaks of anything other than ChatGPT and CoPilot. And mostly with disinterest. Musk isn't even a factor in their existence. Some people have no idea who the hell he is or that he's even related to Tesla or X or xAI. They literally have no interest in him whatsoever at all. Even people in the US I know don't even know what the hell DOGE is but CoPilot has been in their face when they crawl into the office in the morning.
Boring but it's just not as popular because his marketing bubble is crap.
People, me included, think apple is right this time because the very article we're commenting presents the evidence.
This lack of awareness is true, across all sorts of topics.
It's part of what's letting so much of what's happening to America go largely unchecked.
By the time many notice, it'll be way too late.
The terrorists are already in the cockpit.