alt Hacker NewsNot at all. OpenAI / Anthropic are producing tons of surplus value right now! Not to mention how great the Chinese open source LLMs are. And Apple's hardware division has always been fine.
Apple's 30% tax for payments in apps is the ultimate rent seeking example though. Want to install your own apps, lol you can't. And if big AI companies follow in the steps of Google/Facebook it's bad for everyone. Let's recognize it and prevent it from happening this time.
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zelphirkalt • today at 9:23 AM
How should we prevent it, considering the huge financial incentives they have to go exactly that?
Strongly agree! I was answering my parent comment that had a very negative view, it is indeed an amazing situation where' in!