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Re:Ask HN: Is ChatGPT the killer app that gets people to buy... by wunderland on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:50AM (#35728996)
No. Because ChatGPT will be available on other platforms that people already use, Microsoft phones will have awful user experience and overall polish, and iOS/Android will soon have something (better integrated) that is likely nearly as good as ChatGPT.
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Re:Ask HN: Is ChatGPT the killer app that gets people to buy... by sharemywin on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:55AM (#35729075)
kind of my point. Google will have it's own google assistant. apple charges insane amounts of money to even be a digital product. but I think you aren't allowed to compete against siri.

you have to control the biggest end point out there.

also, the digital assistant is the experience. what is a OS/Browser a shitty digital assistant. I want to take a picture, I want my file from last week, I want to see the sports scores etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Is ChatGPT the killer app that gets people to buy... by kypro on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:57PM (#35731073)
Disagree with your reasoning. WP had a great UX. It failed because of developer support. This would even more true today. It's just very hard to compete with the maturity of the mobile ecosystems Google and Apple have built.

A MS phone would lack popular apps, you wouldn't be able to do mobile payments, you wouldn't be able to easily restore/backup from old devices, etc.

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