Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead::Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App

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    10 months ago

    To be fair, is the Chat GPT native app really an amazing representation of a native Android or iOS app? It’s a chat bot that works almost identically to the website.

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    10 months ago

    What a ridiculous headline. What about all the other apps they “avoided” naming as their app of the year?

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    Unique utility and learning apps built from the ground up vs an api frontend. The choice is pretty obvious.

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      All trials might have been unique a decade ago, but it’s basically just yelp for trails and there are several apps that do the same thing but better. The only major changes all trails has made in the years I’ve been using it is locking more and more features behind a subscription fee. I guess that’s “unique”. Certainly more innovative that a pocket conversational AI that I can have an realtime voice conversation with, or send pictures to to ask about real world things I’m seeing, or generating a unique image based on whatever thought pops into my imagination that I can share with others nearly instantly. Nothing interesting about that. The decade old app that collates user submitted trails and their reviews and charges 40 dollars a year to use any of its tracking features is the real game changer.

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        Tbf AllTrails saw a niche and jumped on it. It’s the first smartphone app that I’ve seen getting meat-space word-of-mouth advertising in years. Like before a few months ago I couldn’t remember the last time someone was like “hey you should check out this app” but it’s happened to me a couple of times now while chatting with relative strangers.

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          That’s how I learned about Alltrails. Haven’t done much hiking yet so I haven’t subscribed, but I have it on my phone.

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    Isn’t he ChatGPT app merely a front end to an off-site service? Why the fuck would it deserve an award itself? The service, sure; but the app?!

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    It’s a list of various apps, games, and categories across platforms. ChatGPT is on there…

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      I believe this game of the year appropriately summarizes gaming in Apple’s ecosystem:

      Why be disingenuous, the Mac game of the year was Lies of P, and the iPhone game of the year was Honkai Starrail. Apple has so much shit to criticize that you don’t have to make things up to make them look bad.

      Also I will not hear any Hello Kitty slander.