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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just like how edge competes with chrome, I suppose.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Common marketing strategy.

If you can pit your products against each other, it gives the illusion of choice. The many flavors of toothpaste for example, while being owned by one company.

[–] rifugee 5 points 1 year ago

My favorites are Google Maps and Waze, and PayPal and Venmo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except MS has 70℅ of OpenAI shares. Sounds like MS being athlette - competing with itself lol. 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're right, that's even dumber

[–] thrawn 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe something has changed. I've heard about 70% some time ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯