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Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by yreg on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:39PM (#35992270)
The web version is very far from perfect on an iPhone! Have you been using it?

It keeps logging me out, the copying UX is subpar… And god forbid I lock my phone while I'm getting a completion back. It stops mid sentence and there is no way to continue with it. Which (locking one's phone for a bit while interacting with it) is a very valid use case if you are doing stuff with your hands and want to put the phone in your pocket for a bit.

I'm looking forward to the app.

Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by mynameisvlad on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:49PM (#35992393)
“Perfectly fine” does not mean perfect, it means it’s usable. And it’s not like the parent commenter doesn’t agree that an app is useful.
Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by yreg on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:57PM (#35992494)
'Perfectly fine' definitely doesn't mean 'usable' in my dictionary.

But I see that perhaps the parent didn't mean to say that the web version can do everything the app does, so I have edited my comment to be less confrontational. Thanks.

Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by NikolaNovak on Thursday May 18, 2023 @03:49PM (#35993156)
Right. OP here, FWIW, in my colloquial English (right or wrong:) "Perfect" is, well, perfect; does everything I want and cannot be meaningfully improved.

"Perfectly Fine" on the other hand, the key word is "fine". It is "eh. It mostly does the job. I cannot begrudge it too much. I have bigger things to rant about. It's perfectly fine."

"Fine" is like "Nice". It's fine. It's nice. Note quite "Good", let alone "Amazing". But it's fine. Perfectly so :)

(I empathize with all of your pain points, particularly the stopping of generation if my screen locks. I have employer-mandated iPhone which has draconian locking policies which are pretty close to average time of query generation. I wonder if app will have the same issue?)

Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by yreg on Thursday May 18, 2023 @03:52PM (#35993208)
So 'fine' is better than 'perfectly fine'?

(I’m not a native speaker.)

Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by scarface74 on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:38PM (#35993725)
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Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by bigfudge on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:03PM (#35995507)
No, but perfect is much better than perfectly fine.
Re:OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to iOS by mynameisvlad on Thursday May 18, 2023 @07:33PM (#35995801)
Yep, this is also my interpretation of the phrase.

I best equated it to "usable" since I agree it's "not quite good".