People are pissed but I actually liked the link, so thank you.

Adobe Creative Cloud, which despite the name is pretty much local. And although Microsoft Office works online, it has a series of issues that the desktop version doesn’t have, like broken formatting on Word.

The thing that irks me the most is that those things work. They’ll see a little complain from the most vocal ones, and that’s it. The revenue will increase, their shareholders will be pleased, the OS will be worse, and we’ll have no viable alternative.

Unless governments start to regulate the hell out of tech companies, it’s only downhill from there.

Edit: about Linux, it’s not viable if you’re outside IT or rely on commercial software. That’s a debate for another post.

Ah yes, let’s go back to that amazing time of pure innovation where every fucking company had their own connector standard for data, power and audio. Good times.

Im cautiously curious to see if they can pull it off.

This is hilarious, scrambling to get a golden parachute and live off some trust fund from the sale. The sad part is that they will probably get that.