Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular

Anivia@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.

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• Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Remember this is the same company that had a huge lead and monopoly in the mobile OS market and they fucked that up royally.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.

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    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Windows Mobile was the most popular mobile OS in the US during mid 00s. But it was all downhill from there

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Would you happen to have a source for that? Admittedly this is based on nothing more than my anecdotal experience living through it, but I owned a PocketPC back then and I distinctly remember feeling like I was in the minority.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  MS doesn’t care about home users, hasn’t in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.

  If you’re running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because you think you have a full monopoly and everyone has no option but to put up with it.

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