@peemee I would hate it if my "smart" TV was updated with features I didn't want or need, either. Hope that the Japanese smart TV manufacturers don't follow suit.
This seems to be all over the tech news now, so you're not the only one.
What would Copilot do for your TV watching? Would it be useful in any way? I guess it's a generative AI kind of thing for finding information on programs and movies or something like that?
@matigo Haha, soliciting active feedback from users… that's something that Apple never does, at least not that I've seen. Perhaps it aggregates feedback received via its websites, Apple Support channels and from its media events, but in the end, it's the product managers and the Big Man on top who makes the decisions as to what to leave and what to cut.
That's why there are third-party developers, who are able to more flexibly serve the needs of people who want a more customized experience. "There's an app for that." 😆
Oh, and about the Windows Start menu sending requests to Bing, you probably know that this can be disabled via a registry setting. (I just did this—very easy.) I know, sending user queries in the Start menu straightaway to Bing is not something that Microsoft should even be doing in the first place, but at least there are workarounds to disable their poor behavior.
@matigo Oh, so you're not a fan of the "elimination" of Launchpad on macOS Tahoe. It's still kind of there, accessible using the same trackpad gesture from the Spotlight bar, although it isn't full-screen any more and it's more just like an app grid/list. I've always used Alfred for launching apps via quick text entry, so Launchpad's being repurposed into something else did not bother me much. There has been a lot of anger about it on the forums, though, and I wonder why it would have been such a big deal to just leave it. Maybe Apple will reverse their decision.
As for "AI stuff being integrated" into the clipboard, which OS are you referring to?
Yes, I agree with you about the mostly seamless flow between Apple products. Gone are the plug-and-play days of syncing data.
@hazardwarning Ah, vinyl records. I remember the special brush and cleaning fluid that I used to carefully clean the records in my Dad's collection, which eventually got passed down to me. I don't own those records anymore, nor do I have a record player, although my teenage daughter might be amused if she saw one of those actually working. I doubt that many kids these days even know what a record player is or how it works.
// @matigo
@matigo An OS with "no surprises"? What do you mean by "no surprises"? Maybe you mean frequent updates that "break things"?
@matigo Interoperability with clients is unfortunately not as simple as digging in your heels. It depends on your line of work and your client's expectations.
Although most of the files I work with now are either cloud-based, or in a proprietary translation software format that has nothing to do with Microsoft, I do have some project management spreadsheets in Excel that require some complicated conditional formatting (no macros), which may or may not work in the cheaper alternatives. I do occasionally get work from clients that require editable MS Office files (Word/Excel/PowerPoint), and I would hate to give them a file that doesn't look right layout-wise.
Ah, Microsoft. Microsoft 365 Personal just got a massive price boost to ¥21,300 in Japan, over the previous ¥14,900. Not as egregious as Adobe Creative Cloud's price boost, but still a definite shocker. There's not much to do about it, really—MS Office is still the de facto standard, and the free alternatives probably won't cut it for me, in terms of functionality and usability. Perhaps I can let go of these pricey subscriptions once I retire, but for now, it's a necessary evil.