At least their not advertising companies, although Microsoft has gone all-in on generative AI, so I think we can assume anything you do there will feed the beast.
Apple has seemed pretty consistent when it comes to not wanting to do shit with user data, or have access to it. But if you’re not already in the ecosystem, their products would be annoying to use, and there is a solid argument to make about avoiding falling into any ecosystem… there are arguments for it too.
When talking about smaller companies, the future becomes really unsure. Will Dropbox survive in a world of Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud? Will the smaller companies allow themselves to be acquired to satisfy investors and then get promptly shutdown?
With a lot of it I have to question how much I need it. Do I need something like Google Docs or Word to write a paper, or can I just do it in a text editor, store it in plain text, which will be readable by everything forever, and then just do a little formatting in whatever word processor I want in the moment, if I need to hand off a fancy copy for school or whatever.
At least their not advertising companies, although Microsoft has gone all-in on generative AI, so I think we can assume anything you do there will feed the beast.
Apple has seemed pretty consistent when it comes to not wanting to do shit with user data, or have access to it. But if you’re not already in the ecosystem, their products would be annoying to use, and there is a solid argument to make about avoiding falling into any ecosystem… there are arguments for it too.
When talking about smaller companies, the future becomes really unsure. Will Dropbox survive in a world of Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud? Will the smaller companies allow themselves to be acquired to satisfy investors and then get promptly shutdown?
With a lot of it I have to question how much I need it. Do I need something like Google Docs or Word to write a paper, or can I just do it in a text editor, store it in plain text, which will be readable by everything forever, and then just do a little formatting in whatever word processor I want in the moment, if I need to hand off a fancy copy for school or whatever.