Back on ChatGPT Plus after months: no clear AI winner means users pay for multiple apps
bendee983 · x · 2026-09-23
The author resubscribed to paid ChatGPT after several months and found the quality noticeably improved. His core observation: AI apps iterate so fast that users effectively have to work with multiple apps simultaneously.
He raises three open questions:
- How big is the consumer AI market really?
- How many users pay for multiple AI subscriptions because there's no clear winner and labs one-up each other every few months?
- How much will the market contract if AI hits diminishing returns and paying for several services stops making sense?
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