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Re:Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up wi... by jstummbillig on Monday April 13, 2026 @12:51PM (#47754796)
What world are you living in where the median piece of software has a million users? Or even a hundredth of that?
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Re:Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up wi... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @03:07AM (#47762238)
It's what many software companies dream of and aim for. But the same argument works with 10k users, or even 1k users.
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Re:Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up wi... by dns_snek on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:15AM (#47762777)
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Re:Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up wi... by shermantanktop on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:16PM (#47773885)
I work on software with millions of users..? Sure, it’s not the median, but it exists and there’s a lot of it.

Unfortunately the number of users and the collective value of their wasted time doesn’t make arguing for efficiency and performance any easier.

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Re:Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up wi... by herewulf on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @06:16PM (#47786052)
The one we're in where "software" doesn't just mean an app that someone downloads from a website or an app store. Software includes lots of server side components, etc, etc.

I once noticed my name in the Chromium OS credits due to a patch I had submitted to a library that's on every Chromebook. 1 million would be a small number for Chromebooks alone.

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