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Putting paywall on notepad and paint features, wether it's ai ones is still disrespectful to their user. You pay for the operating system, in exchange you get
by aucisson_masque 2y ago
Putting paywall on notepad and paint features, wether it's ai ones is still disrespectful to their user.
You pay for the operating system, in exchange you get a system that will track on everything you do, show you advertisement everywhere and now will nag you about buying a subscription to unlock all features.
It's more or less what used to be the scammy software 10 or 15 years ago you could download on sketchy website.
Although one difference is that they would also silently change your default search engine to Yahoo.
- falcor84 2y agoThis isn't very new though, I still remember how Windows 98 was pushing you to use features that only work when you're connected to the internet (e.g. a weather widget on your live desktop). I expect that if they had less competition, and weren't hit with the antitrust case, they would have tried to monetize features a lot earlier.