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oh give me a break! They are promoting OneDrive. I use Macs and an iPhone, I definitely get pestered to use iCloud, news or apple music all the time! The mus

oh give me a break! They are promoting OneDrive. I use Macs and an iPhone, I definitely get pestered to use iCloud, news or apple music all the time! The music app alone is mostly screens pushing Apple Music. The headline makes it sound like they're selling general ad space.

qbasic_forever 4y ago
Forced Candy Crush, Facebook and other installs, MSN tabloid news articles, etc. are all over Windows start menu too. It's extremely tasteless and looks like a grocery store checkout aisle.
- MikusR 4y ago
  And is irrelevant to this article.
- wombat-man 4y ago
  I think I've seen the apple news widget helpfully installed on my iPad before. The candy crush thing is true, but I haven't really noticed it until I just checked. The pinned apps thing is sorta annoying but generally I just hit windows + type whatever I'm looking for. Like spotlight on mac.
  - eastbound 4y ago
    You are discountingthe effect that the plebs still using Windows will click on Candy Crush and get addicted. It may hook only 7 people out of 100, but it’s just toxic.
tracker1 4y ago
I recall seeing an ad from a start menu search... admittedly, an insiders build and likely a test feature... but they're definitely at least considering it... I don't use many apple apps on my m1 laptop, so can't say much there. All said, my desktop has been in Linux 99.9% of the time since first seeing that. Though Win11 had already been pissing me off a lot well before then.
- wombat-man 4y ago
  Apple definitely pushes apple music a lot. I use spotify and when I hit play on my headphones half the time it somehow thinks that I want it to fire up apple music instead of unpausing spotify. On iPhone if it doesn't auto sync your photos it definitely encourages you to on.. yep, iCloud! I just don't understand all this hate for microsoft in this particular case. To me this is not really that different from what Apple does, yet I don't see articles roasting apple about it.

qbasic_forever 4y ago

Forced Candy Crush, Facebook and other installs, MSN tabloid news articles, etc. are all over Windows start menu too. It's extremely tasteless and looks like a grocery store checkout aisle.

MikusR 4y ago
And is irrelevant to this article.
wombat-man 4y ago
I think I've seen the apple news widget helpfully installed on my iPad before. The candy crush thing is true, but I haven't really noticed it until I just checked. The pinned apps thing is sorta annoying but generally I just hit windows + type whatever I'm looking for. Like spotlight on mac.
- eastbound 4y ago
  You are discountingthe effect that the plebs still using Windows will click on Candy Crush and get addicted. It may hook only 7 people out of 100, but it’s just toxic.

tracker1 4y ago

I recall seeing an ad from a start menu search... admittedly, an insiders build and likely a test feature... but they're definitely at least considering it... I don't use many apple apps on my m1 laptop, so can't say much there. All said, my desktop has been in Linux 99.9% of the time since first seeing that. Though Win11 had already been pissing me off a lot well before then.

wombat-man 4y ago
Apple definitely pushes apple music a lot. I use spotify and when I hit play on my headphones half the time it somehow thinks that I want it to fire up apple music instead of unpausing spotify. On iPhone if it doesn't auto sync your photos it definitely encourages you to on.. yep, iCloud! I just don't understand all this hate for microsoft in this particular case. To me this is not really that different from what Apple does, yet I don't see articles roasting apple about it.