• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      10 days ago

      that hype train was fun though. The standard microsoft loop.

      • They build a crappy version
      • Put no actual investment in it
      • Drop the idea
      • Someone else comes along, makes a version that’s great, and microsoft gets jealous
      • Microsoft throws 1000% of their resources behind the technology which they are now behind in
      • They cram the product down everyone’s throats, not realizing how much they’re annoying their base
      • Realizing defeat, they quietly kill off the product and act like it never happened.

      Windows Tiles, Windows Phone, Zune, Tablets, AI, take your pick

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        9 days ago

        I wish Windows Phone had stayed. More competition in the mobile space is good, and they had some functioning ideas. Eventually they gave up and turned into a pale Apple imitator before giving up.

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      9 days ago

      Software “support” is such a fucked up thing these days.

      Dropping support no longer means “You’re on your own now, bye!”

      Dropping support now means “Yoink! That’s ours. Bye!”

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        9 days ago

        Honestly, the idiots running software that has been unsupported for years with gaping security holes that enabled botnets to attack everyone else are to blame for that one.

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          9 days ago

          No, the issue isn’t irresponsible devs.

          The only issue here is companies who treat my device as theirs, and make decisions about what needs to be removed from my PC. And of course the voters (like your safety-OCD ass) that tolerate this bullshit being a legal option.