Yeah, and don’t pretend that comparable software like Google Drive, Sharepoint or Dropbox is faster.

Most people are not really using the OS. All they do is starting the webbrowser and that’s it. They need input & sound from the OS, but that’s it.

It does work. People are distracted and are not reading every message correctly. And payment processing in the appstores is also kind of easy - so you might be able to scam a few people into subscribing and they might not notice this directly. You know that you are not checking your credit card bills in details every month. So you can get a nice revenue stream of unsuspecting customers for a few month until you’ve burned down every little bit of trust and user base you had

One of the biggest problems with this AI-spam in every app is that there is no workable business model. You can’t run the AI locally on most end user computers. And running it in the cloud or via OpenAI API is expensive and won’t work in the long term. So you’re looking at another one of those stupid subscriptions, but who really wants to pay monthly for his PDF reader so he can ask it questions?

TBH Amazon has a whole zoo of devices. Even if they are putting a small team of 2 or 3 people in charge for porting this to each device, they might end up with a few hundred people

How was their free service abused?

I really would like to be able to buy a car like that. Looks fun and practical