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mellosoulstoday at 6:45 PM4 repliesview on HN

Mac only. Again.

Apple is great but this is OpenAI devs showing their disconnect from the mainstream. Its complacent at best, contemptuous at worst.

SamA or somebody really needs to give the product managers here a kick up the arse.


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romainhuettoday at 6:51 PM

Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as well. We shipped macOS first, but Windows is coming very soon. Appreciate you calling this out. Stay tuned!

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tptacektoday at 7:01 PM

If you were going to release a product for developers as soon as it was ready for developers to try, such that you could only launch on one platform and then follow up later with the rest, macOS is the obvious choice. There's nothing contemptuous about that.

mellosoulstoday at 8:34 PM

Kudos to the OpenAI reps for responding to my comment and doing so politely.

My ire was provoked by this following on from the Windows ChatGPT app that was just a container for the webpage compared to the earlier bells and whistles Mac app. Perceptions are built on those sorts of decisions.

dkundeltoday at 6:49 PM

Windows is almost ready. It's already running but we are solving a few more things before the release to make sure it works well.