Years ago API’s and apps that used them were expected to do some work offline and on slow networks. Then, suddenly, everyone was expected to have stable Internet to do anything. The reason, I think, is the few apps that expected to be always online seemed better to users and easier to architect. So most architectures went that way.
Times is taking a risk. The costs of all this will fall on them, if they don’t get the judgement they sought at the end of the day.
Plus OpenAI controls those costs and could drive them up.
Plus any future litigation by OpenAI users suffering damages due to this could arguably be brought against Time years forward.
It’s an odd strategy on their part for evidence that could have just been adduced by a statistician (maybe).
Agree with you on the watch and AirPods. For other services no. They either do provide some API, like for payments, iCloud files or Auth, or can’t do so safely, AirDrop and iMessage. And for those alternatives do exist. Just not as system integrate.
There’s a difference. Microsoft competed unfairly because it sold software like Word that apparently internally used secret system calls only Microsoft devs knew about. They gave their other software divisions a big advantage, extending their dominance in OS to apps.
Apple software, like Pages, apparently only uses the same set of system calls available to everyone else.