apple is the new Nokia.
openai is the new google.
microsoft is the new apple.
Proof OpenAI has this shady monopolistic stuff: https://archive.ph/vVdIC
“What You Cannot Do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not: […] Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.” (Hilarious how that reads btw)
Proof Microsoft has this shady monopolistic stuff: https://archive.ph/N5iVq
“AI Services. ”AI services” are services that are labeled or described by Microsoft as including, using, powered by, or being an Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) system. Limits on use of data from the AI Services. You may not use the AI services, or data from the AI services, to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) any other AI service.”
That 100% does include GitHub Copilot, by the way. I canceled my sub. After I emailed Satya, they told me to post my “feedback” in a forum for issues about Xbox and Word (what a joke). I emailed the FTC Antitrust team. I filed a formal complaint with the office of the attorney general of the state of Washington.
I am just one person. You should also raise a ruckus about this and contact the authorities, because it’s morally bankrupt and almost surely unlawful by virtue of extreme unfairness and unreasonableness, in addition to precedent.
AWS, Anthropic, and NVIDIA also all have similar Customer Noncompete Clauses.
I meekly suggest everyone immediately and completely boycott OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, Anthropic, and NVIDIA, until they remove these customer noncompete clauses (which seem contrary to the Sherman Antitrust Act).
Just imagine a world where AI can freely learn from us, but we are forbidden to learn from AI. Sounds like a boring dystopia, and we ought to make sure to avoid it.
You cannot tell a customer that buying your product precludes them from building products like it. That violates principles of the free market, and it's unenforceable. This is just like non-competes in employment. They aren't constitutional.
So yes, they can enforce their terms for all practical purposes.
But no, they cannot levy fines or put you in jail.
1. I wouldn't let someone copy my code written directly by me. Why should I let someone copy the code my machine wrote?
2. There are obvious technical worries about feedback loops.
Because that machine/openAI was built on literally scraping the internet (regardless of copyright or website's ToS) and ingesting printed books.
Produce results.
Market it.
They can’t enforce if it gets too big.
Also, what exactly is stopping someone from documenting the output from all possible prompts?
It's legal theater and can't be enforced.
You obviously haven't dropped an iphone on to concrete. :)
My iPhone 4, on the other hand, shattered after one incident…
These are literally stainless steel.
The 15s with their titanium is a step back.
The 11 Pro with its older curved edges has been the most solidly built phone ever IMO.
I even dropped my iPhone 13 four floors (onto wood), and not a scratch :o
Services, and their sales team, are still Microsoft's strong point.
Apple seeing its services grow and is leaning in on it now.
The question is whether Apple eats services faster than Microsoft eats into hardware.
Highly doubt MS will ever be successful on mobile... their last OS was pretty great and they were willing to pay devs to develop, they just couldn't get it going. This is from someone who spent a ton of time developing on PocketPC and Windows Mobile back in the day.
Products are not the reason for their resurgence.
Apple makes a ton in services, but their R&D is heavily focused on product and platform synergy to that ecosystem extremely valuable.
Microsoft is still the same old Microsoft
Microsoft is a decent physical product company... they've usually just missed on the strategic timing part.
It's difficult to compete with an excellent product if whether you have a blue bubble in iMessage is more important.
Still.
