App Developers
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Isenberg: AI builders will mostly churn out bare-bones shadcn clone apps
“My take on that is I think most people are going to create the shad CN apps, the apps that are sort of bare bones.”
Kantrowitz: App developers effectively serve as R&D for Big Tech platforms
“They ingest so much of the experience that the app developers are effectively R and D for the eventual big tech products.”
Lessin: App developers no longer own customer relationships due to Apple policies
“I don't think that apps anymore do that with the obscuring of email addresses and tokenization and a bunch of this other stuff. You don't really own your app customers the way you used to.”
Catanzaro: Latency reduction, not privacy, drives developer interest in Edge AI
“For better or for worse, the, you know, value prop that seems to resonate most with app developers is actually one around latency”
Mobile app developers pay $7 to $8 for every app download
“App developers pay seven or eight dollars just for every single user that downloads that app, so they're precious.”