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  • neidu2@feddit.nltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldEarbuds
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    2 months ago

    But Apple was so BRAVE when they removed the jack!

    I wholeheartedly agree, I use Bluetooth most of the time, but I want wired to fall back on. When I’m on the go, bluetooth works just fine, but when I’m sitting down at home I prefer to use my full-size Roland headset on both my PC and my phone. No latency, and superior sound quality.


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    Had a discussion with a coworker regarding this, and about how seemingly unnecessarily adversarial MS has become with its users. At first you could choose to only have a local account. Then you had to use a magic key sequence and a command to only use a local account. And I think now even that possibility has been removed? And then there’s the forced default of us8ng one drive, copilot, cortana, and a bunch of other shit.

    And as someone else said: The shit is the point. We concluded that MS realized that it’s lagging behind other companies such as Google and Apple when it comes to providing an ecosystem that the user grows dependant on.

    And while this strategy could have worked, MS has failed to take three important factors into account:

    • Most of their users don’t care about an ecosystem. They just want to check their mail and run an installed program or two.
    • Many of their users are used to having their PC NOT be a part of an ecosystem.
    • MS ecosystem is absolute dogshit. The o365 is somewhat decent if you’rea corporate user, but anything else provided by Microsoft has a better 3rd party alternative if the user wants it at all.

    The OS is not the product anymore. It’s just an attempt at getting you to use their other stuff so that they can lock you in. Why do you think you can now use unlicensed windows with no real downsides? 15 years ago your windows install would refuse to do the tiniest thing without a license, because back then, sell8ng licenses was the business plan. Now they’re selling services so that they can start selling you.