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Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by digging »

notatoad wrote: post #5
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.

> people don't like paying money for things.

This is probably not true, or why would people so often enjoy spending money?

I think people do like (and now expect, thanks to decades of the "spyware" business model) getting free things. Combined with low levels of tech literacy and extremely low levels of trust in fair pricing of goods & services, and a typical person isn't likely to think there's any price that they ever should pay for software.

Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by alpb »

alicanK wrote: post #8

So we don’t need chatgpt anymore? 30 daily limit is pretty enough for my needs.

I think this app biases towards searching online, which is very different than what ChatGPT does. Similarly it can’t do data analysis or equivalent Dall-e image generation. But yeah it can go a long way?

Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by TMWNN »

donor20 wrote: post #3
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 t…

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

I need to use an Amazon application to read Transparency codes on certain products I sell. Amazon recently added ads that appear with the codes ... which cause the codes themselves to be almost impossible to select to copy to my computer.

Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

My complaint with Copilot in Windows is MS's intent that CP eventually be ingratiated into every task, ostensibly to always be ready to jump in and help.

This will just coincidentally enable collection of massive amounts of new telemetery, as CP extends it's vigilance into absolutely everything users do.

I can't imagine MS won't do all it can to achieve this same level of invasiveness in Apple ecosystems, if it possibly can.

Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by donor20 »

TMWNN wrote: post #13
donor20 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

> Every time windows pro jams “search suggestions” and other crap in via notifications and elsewhere I just roll my eyes I need to use an Amazon application to read Transparency codes on certain products I sell. Amazon recently added ads that appear with the codes ... which cause the codes themselves to be almost impossible to select to copy to my computer.

Exactly- do these companies realize how annoying this stuff is? Same issues w volume licensed windows 10 - it comes w garbage. Everything you tough it seems gets stuffed w this crap

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Post by therealpygon »

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 ?

Obviously, people need to pay for record profits somehow…

Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by podgib »

alpb wrote: post #12
alicanK wrote: post #8

So we don’t need chatgpt anymore? 30 daily limit is pretty enough for my needs.

I think this app biases towards searching online, which is very different than what ChatGPT does. Similarly it can’t do data analysis or equivalent Dall-e image generation. But yeah it can go a long way?

> or equivalent Dall-e image generation

Copilot on windows and android can do Dall-E image generation; I don't see why it wouldn't be able to on iOS

Re: Microsoft Copilot iOS App

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Post by Skunkleton »

alpb wrote: post #12
alicanK wrote: post #8

So we don’t need chatgpt anymore? 30 daily limit is pretty enough for my needs.

I think this app biases towards searching online, which is very different than what ChatGPT does. Similarly it can’t do data analysis or equivalent Dall-e image generation. But yeah it can go a long way?

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