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0 pointsminimaxir2y ago0 comments

The typical nontech user doesn't know what a PWA is, which is why native apps in the App Store are still very important.

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clnq2y ago

I think most of the OpenAI's target audience must be technical enough to know they can access websites on a smartphone and bookmark them in some way.

They probably just want to fight abuse/spam/fraud/scams that are on the App Store/Play store so that it would stop devaluing their brand. "ChatGPT charged my card $299 without permission, I am going to the press!" is a disaster waiting to happen with these scammy apps.

minimaxirOP2y ago

The ChatGPT webapp audience is almost entirely nontechnical, which is the primary reason it went viral and so many people got fooled by fakes.

It is different from developers who are using the ChatGPT API to build apps.

wkat42422y ago

Really? So many people tell me how great ChatGPT is at helping development and developers are pretty much by definition technical people.

Also, the signup process is far from easy. People here often cry about how "difficult" it is to sign up for Mastodon or Matrix etc and that is why the mainstream don't use it. Yet this is the same :)

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robertlagrant2y ago

Not at all - loads of people use ChatGPT. Far, far more than would know about PWAs.

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