Apple can do those things because they control the hardware device, which has physical distribution, and they lock down the ecosystem. There is no third party app store, and you can't get the Photos app to save to Google Drive.
With Claude Code, just export an env variable or use a MITM proxy + some middleware to forward requests to OpenAI instead. It's impossible to have lock in. Also, coding agent CLIs are a commodity.
Change is fraught with chaos. I don't think exuberant trends are indicators of whether we'll still care about secure and high quality software in the long term. My bet is that we will.
It might meaningfully change the business model of LLM businesses. Becomes seemingly much harder to universally charge $30/mo subscriptions when the user is bringing their own API key.
Right. IIRC, the acquiring bank would send an authorisation advice to the issuer when it comes back online. An auth advice is like notice that a payment happened, the issuer doesn’t really get a say in rejecting it (as it does for an authorisation). For the most part, anyway.
If that transaction brings the customer into a negative balance, it’d be between the bank and customer to figure that out. Especially if the customer has no overdraft facility and isn’t supposed to be able to go negative, and isn’t able to easily recover the payment, or the customer is considered vulnerable, then the bank will often just swallow the loss.
I’d agree. The biggest exception I can think of is X, which post-Musk has plans to reduce/remove ads. Though I don’t know how much this tanked their ad revenue and whether it was worth it.
Apple can do those things because they control the hardware device, which has physical distribution, and they lock down the ecosystem. There is no third party app store, and you can't get the Photos app to save to Google Drive.
With Claude Code, just export an env variable or use a MITM proxy + some middleware to forward requests to OpenAI instead. It's impossible to have lock in. Also, coding agent CLIs are a commodity.
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