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> Don’t they understand that this is what drives people to Macs and Chromebooks (and nerds like me to Linux)? (Internal) metrics say otherwise.
by r12343a_19 4y ago
> Don’t they understand that this is what drives people to Macs and Chromebooks (and nerds like me to Linux)?
(Internal) metrics say otherwise.
- skrebbel 4y ago(Internal) metrics may be short sighted.
- tetrep 4y agoWhat if they're not? What if it really is economically better for Microsoft to "double dip" and try to monetize Windows beyond its purchase price?
- vanviegen 4y agoOf course they are. It's just not practicle to track long-term consumer sentiment around Microsoft, and life-time customer spending. So they track something else and convince themselves it's close enough.
- everdrive 4y agoI think you raise a very important point. What if it's economically better for you to let men have sex with your wife for money? If you _don't_ do this, you're just sitting on untapped value.
- fhd2 4y agoNot a fan of the analogy, I like to think that would be her own decision, not her partner's. Anyway, companies are capitalist entities, so all that ultimately matters for them is to make more money. The majority of decisions happen along the axis of short term revenue vs long term revenue (e.g. not ruining your brand, not getting fined etc). In an environment of insecurity and fear, I've seen companies focus more on the short term, since it's less speculative. But it sure doesn't look very good from the outside.
- doubled112 4y agoShe has the choice to get a divorce just like I have the choice to not use Windows.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoHow would internal metrics even capture someone using a different computer?
- AraceliHarker 4y agoI think you can track pretty well with just the device ID alone, but you combine it with other identities like location information, IP address, cookies, login information and so on. Is that why Windows 11 recently made it impossible to bypass creating an MS account?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYeah but they're speaking about switching to a chromebook or a mac. How is your device ID going to help with that?
- lozenge 4y agoThey could summarise the User-Agent s visiting LinkedIn or a couple of other websites they run.
- imajoredinecon 4y agoYou estimate how many people use computers and how many people use computers you make. When you subtract the two, you get how many people use computers that your competitors make. Not every “internal metric” is something you can measure directly.
- alpaca128 4y agoMost active Linux PCs were made by Windows PC manufacturers.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoIf that is how sketchy the data they are using to make decisions is, that would explain a lot about their decisions.
- Nextgrid 4y agoInternal metrics can be cooked to show anything. I read somewhere that "if you torture the data enough, it will confess". Whatever oxygen wasters are pushing for this crap will cook the data in such a way to push for their idea (as their salary depends on it) while "conveniently" not putting forwards data that shows otherwise.