Yup. I did a trial and their product came out on top, but their sales tactics were so aggressive that I went elsewhere. They were trying to call me 6+ times a day.
FWIW I get about the same battery life on Linux with an AMD laptop. It's not as power efficient under load but not having to run a VM for docker helps a lot.
As far as I can tell, that feedback goes into a black hole. I've sent many corrections there, not a single one has been adopted, including ones where entire streets didn't exist (i.e. they exist on Maps but have never existed IRL).
In the city I used to live, they had to put signs up at the entrance to a street, warning people to ignore Google Maps. It tried to route people the wrong way up a one-way street, and the government had failed to get Google to fix it.
Yeah, the company I work for recently got acquired by a US corporate. I went from one ~15min stand-up call a day to 3-4 hours of meetings per day, all mandated by the US VPs. Our company has had to double our number of developers just to get the same amount of work done that we did pre-acquisition.
But at the same time Fox News [1] is still on Youtube.
I felt there is something missing in context. Is this something to do with Google paying for AUS News content or some other bad blood going on between the two?
It really was off-putting the way the main guy was saying words like "this is so exciting" while having zero facial emotion and a dead look in his eyes. Felt like somebody was holding a gun to his head and making him read off a prompter.
I'm actually wondering if Stratechery watched the same presentation. I don't think anyone could watch the same presentation and call it "playful" or "light."
It reminds me of the new customer support script where they make them use empathetic words. “ Awesome, let me help” and “ Thats frustrating” sound worse coming from humans that don’t care.
All the Microsoft presentations have that now - every second sentence describes something as “awesome”. It’s really off-putting, I don’t mind if someone is feigning enthusiasm but they lay it on so thick
You don't always have to smile or emote to project engagement. If you look at him introducing the Surface Laptop 2 at about 1m30s[1] through to 2m -- the passion and energy is unmistakable. Listen in particular to his voice and how he's moving around, and his palms.
Compared to that, and especially to a casual observer, he looked disengaged at the Win11 launch event. But it's probably a consequence of having to perform in front of a camera and not be able to move around as much.
