"I thought YOU had!"

Billing it as extra-secure privacy protection ensures you pull up people who have something interesting to hide.

Apple had a culture of authenticity. Culture dies pretty hard in most cases. I think we will see the last of that culture dissipate, as it eroded so greatly under Cook and Ive. Then the extractive, enshittifying corruption will spread from Apple, too.

There really was something, that began with Jobs and Woz. It wasn't perfect, and Jobs had a way of twisting ethical stances in ends-justifying-means sophistry. But Steve Jobs would never have prostrated before Trump, proffering a solid gold token.

And get this: The item does *not* affect the gameplay!

If you're not dumb and have stolen money, these types of exchanges are ideal for money laundering.

Leper outcast unclean....

Oh, you want profit? This is a surveillance spyware wrapper around the entire MacOS user experience - so if you thought Microsoft's Copilot Recall was invasive monitoring, you haven't seen anything yet.

If Apple won't monetize a user panopticon and partner with governments to do it, OpenAI will be right there, to take the cash.

I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

"This change is part of our ongoing commitment to modernizing productivity experiences and focusing on cloud-first solutions,"

Translation:
"This change is part of our ongoing commitment to ensuring everybody is paying us a monthly subscription fee."

"his new (white?) Trump tower in the location where the U.S. White House used to be"

White? Of course not! It'll be gold!

Microsoft: "Here's our crappiest idea, hosted by Clippy!"

Crappiest mascot, crappiest idea, and crappiest investment: MSFT

Short MSFT

Why not demand 2,000% or 100,000%?

These are just as likely as demanding 30%

Right, but as I just said obeying a disallow directive isn't legally mandatory, so it doesn't mean much.

Base...Base.

Base.

All Your Base...Are Belong to Us.