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Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
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Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#52Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't. Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads? Hmmmmm
I am sure that providers with paid products like Netflix or HBO are watching closely. Until now the deal was that the customer pays to get rid of ads but maybe they can make the customer pay and still show ads?
I don't think that Microsoft serving ads within their native mail application has strong ramifications for Netflix or HBO. They are different market segments with different expectations.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#53Pay for Windows, get bloatware and ads. Pay for Mac OS...don't. Use Google, get everything for free subsidized by ads. Pay for Windows, still get ads? Hmmmmm
I am sure that providers with paid products like Netflix or HBO are watching closely. Until now the deal was that the customer pays to get rid of ads but maybe they can make the customer pay and still show ads?
Yea, that's the cable revenue model, it's not working out so well for them right now. I would be very careful about double dipping.
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#54OSX: Pay here. Not enough, we increased our prices! Oh, don't forget your dongles! Windows: Oh you want to rename a file that is opened by an application? Fuck you. We're not even capable of telling you what application. Have some ads instead! Linux: Ooh you thought you could use $APPLICATION_NAME? Sorry, that isn't available, but you can try $MEDIOCRE_ALTERNATIVE instead. I'm not a fanboy, I hate every major desktop…
While OSX might be expensive it is such a pleasure to use!
I agree. OSX user here as well. It's the "least bad" option IMO if budget isn't much of an issue.
If OSX wouldn't exist, I would likely try Linux, get sick of it, try Windows, get even more frustrated, and get back to Linux. It is very likely I'd be using ElementaryOS or Ubuntu Desktop in the end.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
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While the ads and bloatware Microsoft was specifically trying to get away from in the 2000-2010ish era coming back, but this time packaged by Microsoft themselves, is absolutely baffling, the Cortana voice playing when you install Windows 10 has me even more confused. How did that get integrated? Is there some sort of Microsoft VP who decided to stake their career on Cortana and overrode everyone to merge that awful…
You may wish to consider that the voice in the installer is beneficial for accessibility purposes.
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Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
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You don’t pay for macOS though. EDIT: yes you can argue you pay for it with your purchase of hardware but you don’t pay for future revisions.
Please let me know how I can get macOS for free :) Edit: You also don't get free updates if you don't have an Apple machine. Still not free.
Sure you do. I get free updates on my hackintosh, I just have to be very careful about actually installing them.
Re: Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
#57when someone says "let's monetize X", what they're really asking is, "how can we burn all that developer goodwill we've worked really hard to earn". So maybe go looking for another revenue channel?
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Oh shit I can't use (any application) on Linux, but there is (mediocre alternative) instead!
Which aplications would you like to see in Linux?
I'd like to see a way of installing applications that isn't needlessly restrictive. Something like AppImage, only actually used.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don’t pay for macOS though. EDIT: yes you can argue you pay for it with your purchase of hardware but you don’t pay for future revisions.
Please let me know how I can get macOS for free :) Edit: You also don't get free updates if you don't have an Apple machine. Still not free.