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New comment by smt88 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

smt88 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:45:49 +0000

People think it's true because it is true, and OpenAI has told us themselves.

They (very optimistically) say they'll be profitable in 2030.

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:43:38 +0000

And in those countries, iOS has a much smaller market share. You're proving my point.

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:13:30 +0000

> Yeah, that just doesn't pass the simplest sniff tests. I barely use iMessage, and yet I'm an iPhone user.

A single anecdote isn't data. You're not a typical consumer.

The only major market where iPhone outsells Android (number of handsets) is the US, and it's because of iMessage. Android is 70% of the world market and dominates LatAm, Africa, and Asia.

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:09:44 +0000

What country?

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:09:28 +0000

Yes, and the US is by far Apple's most important handset market. The other iOS-majority countries are small markets for Apple.

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:08:30 +0000

It is, and the iPhone doesn't have overwhelming market share in any other large market, which is my point.

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:00:48 +0000

Consumers don't necessarily want iPhone. They don't want to be excluded from iMessage, which is a completely different motivation.

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:59:30 +0000

"10 years behind" would be an improvement for Siri. It's actively broken much of the time in a way that Google Assistant or Alexa never has been.

New comment by smt88 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

smt88 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:58:22 +0000

None of those are the best product in their category, and all are only huge sellers because Apple anti-competitively privileges them in its ecosystem.

New comment by smt88 in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

smt88 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:30:54 +0000

> You're conflating MAU with economic relevance.

No, I'm not. Are you unable to make a point without being condescending and assuming the worst of people you disagree with?

> The overwhelming majority of ChatGPT users are brokies on the free tier who use it for simple questions, like their homework assignments or relationship advice.

Yes, I know. That's my whole point.

The "best" or most advanced product in any tech category is really "the face" of that category. See also: cars, video game consoles, audio equipment, etc.

New comment by smt88 in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

smt88 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:19:21 +0000

> face of AI amongst low-information luddites

This is condescending and unfair. Altman, OpenAI, and the media have spent years making Altman the face of AI. His company has (by far) the largest market cap, does the most deals, and has the most users.

I suspect Anthropic/Claude will become as much of a household name as ChatGPT, but it's not even close yet. ChatGPT is almost a generic term for AI chatbots at the moment.

New comment by smt88 in "I built a social platform with no karma, no downvotes, and no algorithm"

smt88 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:57:14 +0000

I think you have misunderstood the reason people want social media. They want the audience (or the perception of an audience), and everything else is secondary.

New comment by smt88 in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

smt88 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:41:43 +0000

The status page indicates issues on almost all services

New comment by smt88 in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

smt88 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:41:14 +0000

If Microsoft is your example of "brand death," Anthropic is dreaming of that kind of wild success and shouldn't care about its brand at all

New comment by smt88 in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

smt88 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:04:20 +0000

Yeah. I flagged this thread for spam.

New comment by smt88 in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

smt88 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:02:32 +0000

You can already do this with strict type checking enabled and the NonNullable type.

You can't enforce it in any normal codebase because null is used extensively in the third party libraries you'll have to use for most projects.

New comment by smt88 in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

smt88 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:02:32 +0000

How would TS fix null in JS without violating its core principles of adhering to EcmaScript standards and being a superset of JS?

New comment by smt88 in "Ask HN: Was Bay Area traffic less today?"

smt88 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:22:47 +0000

Seems like a more appropriate topic for reddit, Bluesky, or X.

New comment by smt88 in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

smt88 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:54:02 +0000

Doesn't your boycott of the ad-free model confirm to them that the only viable business model is ads?

New comment by smt88 in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

smt88 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:18:21 +0000

I don't understand any of those sentences. How do they apply to YouTube?