We are solving a real user pain point and not promoting spam. Users want a more conversational interface when they're reaching out for customer support during off hours and businesses want a better medium to talk to their customers. There is value created on both sides. There is no reason for Apple to ban us.
I believe enough people have made it clear in this thread that Apple does already have reason to ban you. Whether or not you promote spam is not the issue, the issue is that Apple already has a feature built for this exact purpose; you can disagree with their approach—and maybe you’re right, I don’t know. But the idea that you won’t blocked by Apple for this is naïve.
While I do actually believe you’re trying to solve a genuine frustration people have. I disagree with your opinion that Apple has no reason to ban you.
Apple have always had a negative view on 3rd party APIs replicating their core OS functionality. And that’s exactly what you’re building here. You’re bypassing Apples approved process and selling those services. Even if you guarantee your customers wouldn’t abuse your service, it still defies Apples walled garden.
So Apple will find an excuse to shut you down. It might be a “security” update that changes their API and thus breaks your compatibility. It might be the ToS point others have raised regarding commercial use. It might even just be something as vague as “we detected unusual activity from your account” bullshit. But Apple will close you down just like they did with every other service that bypassed their walled gardens.
The only way you’d survive this is through lobbying. Like what Epic and others had to do. But there’s no way your startup would have the runway for an extended legal battle with Apple.
Years ago, I was moving and I couldn't take a car worth $5000 with me. It was too much of a hassle. I thought of donating and the first thing that came to my mind was "Cars for Kids" because it was embedded in my mind from years of listening to their ads blasted constantly on radio. The donation was easy, they came and towed it away. I felt good thinking I was helping the local kids. A year later, I happened to look them up and felt absolutely cheated.
I’ve donated cars to them twice and I’ll be honest I don’t really care. It was convenient for me to not have to deal with selling it and I got a minor tax benefit.
I guess if I knew I might have picked a different charity though. But it’s not something I’d spend a lot of time worrying about.
This is Epstein binders (a) version of UFO release. All the information thats been released has been out there for mutiple decades and is the fodder and fuel for UFO community.
Yes, GPUs run machine code like CPUs. The toolchain compiles code to machine code that gets executed on GPUs. In the stacks referenced above it's not exactly Python, which is why I used the term Python-ish instead of Python.
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