Performance is also degrading on iphones as software bloats, and/or they're up to their old shenanigans and making older phones unbearable to force people to buy the newest ones.
Big tech is reaping what they've sown in a very satisfying way.
Don't forget Apple handwaving serious security issues of their devices - users still cannot even check if their devices are compromised and only thing Apple can do here is "lockdown mode" - which again, after compromise is likely useless anyway.
The problem with the Microsoft features is really not excessive ambition.
Half of the time it's open user hostility and blatant incompetence. The other half it's just the incompetence. Ambition doesn't enter the picture at all.
Yes, and those ideas are user hostile and poorly conceived, badly executed, and incompetently built.
A remote code execution exploit in notepad?! That's not professional, or skillful, or well done. Unnecessary feature bloat and change for the sake of change, because some MBA dork wants to justify their department and continued employment by checking boxes on spreadsheets.
There's no innovation or skillful, well built features. There's hardly any consideration of users at all, except as net continuing depositors of money into Microsoft coffers. Features and updates are nothing more than marketing slop and manipulation of enterprise into renewing subscriptions and purchasing the latest version of new hardware.
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I just don't think that you can point at a company whose entire foundational product, Windows, the operating system that's pretty much default for most of the world, and say that they're not completely and utterly failing as a company when their single most compelling "feature" is that the OS can run Excel.
It's the year of the Linux desktop, fire it up and never look back!
Big tech is reaping what they've sown in a very satisfying way.