No, for every person who does leave, there is at least one who signs up.

So unless that person who leaves telegraphs that they are leaving in a meaningful way that it gains traction that those considering onboarding reconsider, there will always be a revolving door of new users to replace the disgruntled ones.

Another aspect to consider, those threatening to leave, may even adjust their usage patterns of the platform that negates or weakens the impact of the new features.

They are adding the horns and pitch fork.

Someone at Microsoft must have asked Copilot to do their work for them, failed to proof it, and then pushed it to production.

but will ET be able to phone home?

Precisely, a hammer will always strike, but you have to trust the operator of the hammer that their positioning will land the blow on the nail and not on the thumb.

Yes, but was it observed?

It works when the LSP is too slow or does not load properly, but there is no way I will trust copilot to fill out a code block for me.

The irony, I suppose that is the correct word - might be coincidence, its suggestions that it uses are my own code so I guess I should feel flattered in those instances.

There are no ads, no malware links, and no junkware store recommendations pushing cheap knock offs.

That is not to difficult at all, someone has to plow the field to be able to say "Would you like fries to go with that?"

This is an example of confirmation bias. I would not be surprised if the researchers also have published studies demonstrating survivor bias.

Given the increase, both publicised and otherwise, of nuisance calls over the last 40 years, it is hardly a statistical anomaly that there are more users opting to not answer an unknown or unrecognised phone number.

Given that this become generational with parents advising children to ignore unknown numbers, text messages etc it is bound to become engrained eventually as a normal practice.

The same has become true for emails. If an email comes from domain or business that is not recognised then chances are it will be ignored, or deleted regardless of the content.

Are these real subscriptions, or are they subscriptions bundled with other packages, services or forgotten trails periods?

Go into the store, you are immediately met with staff who want to sign you up to every microservice the business has to offer.

Move online, what microservices? I go in, pay the bill, ignore the emails about all those flashy addons, most end up in the spam folder anyway. Can even set the email preferences to what types of notifications I want thanks to the ACCC and the ACMA rulings surrounding telemarketing.

but if your DRM software is crashing a game because VSCode or Notepad++ is running in background then your DRM software is broken.

In all the years that quote has been attributed to him, has there ever been actual evidence that he said/wrote it?

it is now a feature?