I’m really starting to wonder if they just might fuck up their products so badly it fucks up their insanely strong market position enough to be replaced.
MS used to be more careful with the corporate/ enterprise side. Some notable exceptions of course, the tiles-only “mobile-tap-first” interface of 8 was rough on users, but forcing that on their server 2012 OS was an abomination.
But the stuff outta MS lately is just nutso.
Yeesh, you’re exactly right that this is the right way to think about it and thank you for pointing it out that way. Absolutely disgusting, I can’t believe we all allow this. I’m pretty fuckin good at math and those timescales and numbers are just not intuitive, I’m always surprised with figures like these, even though I’ve seen em before. If people knew, really knew this stuff, I have to believe it would change.
Anyone “earning” like this while the people (and their families) propping up these fiefdoms sacrifice and struggle the way they’re forced to - anyone doing so is de facto amoral. I’d go so far as to say deserving immediate death, no further evidence needed.
But maybe that’s the 4 beers my old ass had tonight making me feel spicy, lol.
Same for our family. To be clear I saw their “inclusivity” for what it was, but I’ll still reward that over its absence, because I want to see more of it in the world regardless of motivation. My wife was all in, the stereotypical Target-loving mom who liked them a LOT and would visit sometimes just to kill time between other things.
But she has principles, so she hasn’t shopped there since all this stuff, and we won’t be going back.
Folks, give your money to Costco! There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, yes, but Costco has been a standout in the industry just for how they treat their employees, for a long time now, probably decades by this point. And they read the room wisely (or just actually mean it, but probably not) and vocally retained DEI efforts.
Guarantee this prick is furious over this, don’t worry. Like, probably even more upset than you or I would be for getting fired unfairly. These people have their entire identity and ego wrapped up in this stuff, their brains are broken.
Completely agree about watching the privacy destruction ramp up significantly in recent years. The one silver lining is that deciding how much and what to allow for myself and my children is just a lot easier, and even in less abusive scenarios, less smartphone use is good for basically all of us.
I was thinking about that, can’t think of any examples off the top of my head, but you’re right, if it were done successfully, it wouldn’t be something most of us would ever talk about or be aware of.
I do think it generally holds though, there’s a reason the word for the phenomena is “bubble” and not something more suggestive of controlled deflation.
It’s one of the many problems with idiotic speculative bubbles. You can’t slowly shrink them, they only pop. I might be totally wrong about that, I don’t have an actual background here, but it sure seems to be what I’ve seen in life.
I think they’re in a dicey spot because any investor understands that Tesla is way overvalued, due to its status as a meme stock.
So sure, get rid of Musk for the sake of the business, that does sound like obviously the right move…but at the cost of utterly tanking the share price? Not likely. And make no mistake, getting Musk out of Tesla totally reverses the meme stock status.
Edit: better vocab
Easy, teeth mash the plants into plastic 👍 makes sense if you squint real hard and have a few TBIs
You say complacent, I say complicit.
Yeesh. I’ve been (blessedly) away from MS for a bit now so I’m kind of catching up / watching the carnage from afar.
When you jack up veteran user workflows so much that it makes the OS feel alien…you’re really just daring people to jump OS. I know it’s not that simple for work environments, but I can’t imagine administering this sloppy mess has gotten any easier, so…gonna be fun waiting for the suits to eventually catch up I guess.