Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr...
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:43PM
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I'd say the forced update from 8 to 10, with all the UI dark patterns, was even worse. An OS "collecting telemetry" on you was mostly an abstract problem for non-technical users. An OS trying to annoy and trick you into updating to that scary "telemetry version" - that's another thing, and I know plenty of people who were pissed off about that. Hell, my own mother sticks to 8 and still refuses to entertain the thought of using 10 precisely because of those attempts at forced upgrade.
It's a shame, really, because Windows 10 is a decent OS, and it fixed most of the issues with 8.
Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr...
by pjmlp on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:18PM
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That kind of behaviour is easy to understand when one works at any Fortune 500, specially those whose main business isn't software related.
It doesn't matter how much goodwill a specific department might have, power struggle and department differences always end up impacting it.
Windows 10 telemetry is a great example: They shot themselves in the foot PR-wise on an otherwise excellent operating system, chasing a pile of metadata that won't really be significantly more useful than what they get from people who voluntarily agree to be Windows Insiders. There isn't a good business case for preventing people from shutting off error reporting, and it's had a huge impact on mitigating all of their other efforts to repair their image.