You make some good points. I agree with you on the opt-in, this should be asked when it gets installed perhaps. I guess asking for forgiveness rather than permission gets them more data. Which, as we've established, isn't so bad now but who knows what it will become in the future. Really doesn't look great on Microsoft from a public standpoint - if you're suspicious about them because of the past, it's something that would cause you to stay so.
That being said though, I'm far more annoyed about what my phone is sending out to a cloud somewhere than what a small subset of my dev environment is.
That being said though, I'm far more annoyed about what my phone is sending out to a cloud somewhere than what a small subset of my dev environment is.
Oh, for sure. I haven't mentioned that here because we don't issue cell phones at work. But the dotnet issue does intersect with "dev" for us.
At home, I am looking into other solutions for cell phones. There is one coming out soon that is supposed to be user-loyal (as opposed to manufacturer-loyal) and linux-based. Librem 5. I'll probably wait until it supports my particular carrier well enough (currently lacks GSM LTE band 12 which supposedly will make my signal bad).
Librium looks very cool! Hopefully it grows into something bigger and doesn't become a fringe case company that ends up going under due to lack of attention. Not even Microsoft, with their resources, could get into the smartphone market. People like their widgets and Apple and Android have a lot.
I hope so too. The company has already been selling laptops for a bit now, so it does not seem like they are in danger of failing to launch. However their products will most likely remain niche so long as we (society) accept giving away privacy in exchange for "free" apps. Who knows, they might bring something unforeseen to the market that will make people want to use them. Here's hoping. I plan to give them a try, at least to support the idea.
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You make some good points. I agree with you on the opt-in, this should be asked when it gets installed perhaps. I guess asking for forgiveness rather than permission gets them more data. Which, as we've established, isn't so bad now but who knows what it will become in the future. Really doesn't look great on Microsoft from a public standpoint - if you're suspicious about them because of the past, it's something that would cause you to stay so.
That being said though, I'm far more annoyed about what my phone is sending out to a cloud somewhere than what a small subset of my dev environment is.
Oh, for sure. I haven't mentioned that here because we don't issue cell phones at work. But the dotnet issue does intersect with "dev" for us.
At home, I am looking into other solutions for cell phones. There is one coming out soon that is supposed to be user-loyal (as opposed to manufacturer-loyal) and linux-based. Librem 5. I'll probably wait until it supports my particular carrier well enough (currently lacks GSM LTE band 12 which supposedly will make my signal bad).
Librium looks very cool! Hopefully it grows into something bigger and doesn't become a fringe case company that ends up going under due to lack of attention. Not even Microsoft, with their resources, could get into the smartphone market. People like their widgets and Apple and Android have a lot.
I hope so too. The company has already been selling laptops for a bit now, so it does not seem like they are in danger of failing to launch. However their products will most likely remain niche so long as we (society) accept giving away privacy in exchange for "free" apps. Who knows, they might bring something unforeseen to the market that will make people want to use them. Here's hoping. I plan to give them a try, at least to support the idea.