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It's not as stupid as you're making it out to be. For almost all tech companies - hell, almost all companies in the modern world - customer abuse is a first-cl
by digging 2y ago
It's not as stupid as you're making it out to be.
For almost all tech companies - hell, almost all companies in the modern world - customer abuse is a first-class strategy. Some push it further than others, some are more blatant than others. It's probably not about them being insanely out-of-touch with what people want, but about them miscalculating what people will tolerate. Microsoft seems to be willing to push things a little further because, why wouldn't they? They got people to install Vista, then 7, then 10, then 11, all increasingly abusive.
- zubspace 2y agoYeah, and if you do that long enough, eventually there will be generation of consumers which think that it is totally normal. I remember a time, when I set specific firewall rules for each application. A time where I would never allow to share my location. A time where I would never link my google account to other services. But as I grew older I stopped caring because I have other stuff to do. The problem is, that those companies have time on their side. They can do whatever they want, back out, constantly rebrand stuff and confuse their users until we eventually give up. And at some point a large part of the population stops caring, because it's a fight, which is very hard to win. I hate it, but I have not the strength, time and will to push back.
- Rinzler89 2y agoHow was Windows 7 abusive?