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Microsoft can't learn a thing from their own history. Perhaps if they made a product that was useful and not deceiving their users they'd have more success. It seems they aren't capable of that anymore.
"Addiction" is a bad word. It implies the user is not in control of themselves. Anyone who makes products want users of our product to keep coming back as though they are addicted, but not actually addicted.
> Anyone who makes products want users of our product to keep coming back as though they are addicted, but not actually addicted. Can you explain the distinction? I am not seeing it. If I keep refreshing a product page to get another dopamine hit, am I addicted or not addicted but appearing so to your metrics?
Feedback to microsoft: I'm confused and dissapointed that this isn't called Copilot, the users want more things to be called copilot even if they aren't related to each other, consider renaming Scout to Copilot, or at least Scout Copilot, or even better Copilot* (*Copilot Scout)
"Addiction" is a bad word. It implies the user is not in control of themselves. Anyone who makes products want users of our product to keep coming back as though they are addicted, but not actually addicted.
> Anyone who makes products want users of our product to keep coming back as though they are addicted, but not actually addicted. Can you explain the distinction? I am not seeing it. If I keep refreshing a product page to get another dopamine hit, am I addicted or not addicted but appearing so to your metrics?
Brewers want people to want beer, and to perhaps puritans, that desire could appear as “addicted”. However, brewers don’t want addicts - liver failure, destitution, death, are all things I doubt a brewer wants to see in their consumer base because you can’t drink if you don’t have a liver, don’t have money, or don’t have life.
Did I, as a child, think my dad was addicted to alcohol because I saw him drink everyday? I did, that’s the appearance it gave. Was he? Not to the clinical point of addiction, technically - he functioned, maintained relationships and a job, and wasn’t more than occasionally emotionally abusive. He fit the type of customer GP seems to talk about - appearing to be addicted but not wholly, truly addicted.
Feedback to microsoft: I'm confused and dissapointed that this isn't called Copilot, the users want more things to be called copilot even if they aren't related to each other, consider renaming Scout to Copilot, or at least Scout Copilot, or even better Copilot* (*Copilot Scout)
"Addiction" is a bad word. It implies the user is not in control of themselves. Anyone who makes products want users of our product to keep coming back as though they are addicted, but not actually addicted.
I've met plenty of people who want to make products that solve problems , even if the product's user only has those problems once in a while. Reaching for a well-liked, well-matched tool whenever a problem arises isn't addicted or quasi-addicted or "as though" addicted behavior. Once you're thinking about how to keep a user coming back , you're in the mutually adversarial design space, whatever language is used to mo…
What, a Microsoft AI product that isn't branded "Copilot"?!
>Microsoft has been piloting Scout as an internal tool for employees it was calling “ClawPilot,” since March. ClawPilot—and now Scout—are part of “Project Lobster,” which is a Microsoft plan to bring the popular OpenClaw AI tool to its Microsoft 365 suite of products in a way that nontechnical people can use.
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> Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company. damn, he quickly disavowed the statement and got panned anyway would falling on the sword worked better??
Being aware of what the basic strategy is with one of their most high profile products would have worked better.
Microsoft can't learn a thing from their own history. Perhaps if they made a product that was useful and not deceiving their users they'd have more success. It seems they aren't capable of that anymore.
Although maybe it doesn't take much, given that it sounded at one point like the Microsoft execs were addicted already.