Well, at least some part of the users are frustrated with ads. What bothers me more is that the majority certainly couldn’t care less whether there are ads on their device or not. If they did, Amazon would be forced to do something about it.
It’s the same old reason as always. Most users value their convenience more than anything.
I don’t understand why ppl do this. Is this malicious? Do they think they are somehow helping?
That app sounds horrible
This is not enshittification, this is just a corporation trying to protect itself against anything that could cause negative publicity, like all corporations do. I can even see emojis and positive tone to even be wanted features for some. The real problem here is lack of transparency.
I’m still waiting for ChatGPT etc. to start injecting (more or less hidden) ads to chat and product placement to generated images. That is just unavoidable when bean counters realize that servers and training actually costs money.
Well that looks cool. I just hope I would have use for such device.
I wonder how they plan to keep updating this Mechanix OS after initial sales slow down
I actually was going to write something related to this but decided against it in fear of being downvoted and reported to hell. I already blocked all political subreddits and groups but still my feed is full of this american bloodthirst. I just hope I could block all non-european internet for few months.
The only surprising thing here is that it took this long. It’s not cheap to run servers, and their current business model doesn’t seem that profitable. A regular user doesn’t care if their AI girlfriend suddenly starts recommending antidepressants and Nuka-Cola products.