@DJAceNBA If he put Mitch on Okongwu, would have freed up OG to put someone else on CJ. They were never going to run a play for Okongwu, just dumb to waste your best defender on him
@gwilliams81@NickMolina@JayKapoorNYC That is the stated plan for this experiment. 5 stores in areas underserved by grocery stores for less than NYC is currently paying to subsidize private stores. I don't know if his plan will succeed but we're already doing what you suggest and it doesn't seem to be working
@gwilliams81@NickMolina@JayKapoorNYC We already subsidize both spenders and private grocery stores. You'd want to measure how affordable groceries are to determine if those subsidies are actually effective, not just assume they are better. Public opinion seems pretty clearly to be that groceries are not affordable
@MikeIsaac It's a stretch but maybe they want to focus on their own products which provide durable value (vs cash now). Apple privacy controls give them no training data to improve their models from the deal. There's also no moat with an LLM, Apple can just swap the model without much work