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Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

What is with Facebook and Microsoft ?

I recently installed Facebook messenger on android and it literally had ads in the chat list itself. Yuck.

Same for Microsoft. At least I don't have to use any ms product but everything has ads now ?? Why ?

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Post by donor20 »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #2

What is with Facebook and Microsoft ? I recently installed Facebook messenger on android and it literally had ads in the chat list itself. Yuck. Same for Microsoft. At least I don't have to use any ms product but everything has ads now ?? Why ?

Having just fought a vendor for months to cancel a service - how do others not realize that long term the apple approach that builds trust will actually pay off?

We had three people working to get cancellation done. Customer service / billing / tickets / emails and more. It was ridiculous. The only person who could cancel was a salesperson we’d never worked with who would NOT respond to calls and emails. And we pay this vendor 75,000+!

Every time windows pro jams “search suggestions” and other crap in via notifications and elsewhere I just roll my eyes

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Post by aethros »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #2

What is with Facebook and Microsoft ? I recently installed Facebook messenger on android and it literally had ads in the chat list itself. Yuck. Same for Microsoft. At least I don't have to use any ms product but everything has ads now ?? Why ?

For a while I used FB Messenger Lite, which was basically designed for low-bandwidth markets (read: not US) but came without any sort of bloat. Sadly they recently deprecated it, which forced me to switch. It seems like these companies feel the need to put ads everywhere--at some point I'd imagine some users will just stop using tools that are too bloated.

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Post by notatoad »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #2

What is with Facebook and Microsoft ? I recently installed Facebook messenger on android and it literally had ads in the chat list itself. Yuck. Same for Microsoft. At least I don't have to use any ms product but everything has ads now ?? Why ?

people don't like paying money for things.

if you're willing to pay, the chatGPT app is going to be a better experience. the only reason to use the copilot app is to get gpt4 for free. and that means ads.

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Post by huytersd »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #2

What is with Facebook and Microsoft ? I recently installed Facebook messenger on android and it literally had ads in the chat list itself. Yuck. Same for Microsoft. At least I don't have to use any ms product but everything has ads now ?? Why ?

It’s pretty smelly. They probably don’t even make all that much from those specific ads but it makes the application/system feel completely cheap.

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Post by jamesdwilson »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #6

Weird text input box. It doesn’t auto-capitalize new sentences? I wonder what that box is doing in the background with every word I type.

Spawning a new Microsoft Edge ® process, powered by Microsoft Bing ™.

So remember, next time you Google something, Google it with Bing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYVCk10AzS0

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