They just ignore concerns from QA (for example, regarding competitors). Google does this. Microsoft does this.
The days of active malfeasance are gone with Windows 3.1 and its DR-DOS fake glitches (on Win 3.1 beta, toggled off on final).
Also let's not forget the shenanigans that Google pulls with ad words auctions etc.. If a person would have a history of doing things like that we'd call them dodgy or criminal, but when a company does it we somehow are to believe it's all accidents?
QA won't test on another browser or if it does its results are ignored? So they don't make it work badly on purpose, just by negligence.
Regarding to believe it's all accidents, I don't affirm it's on purpose as to not attract shills, paid or otherwise.
You might be negligent and don’t water your plants when needed, but they will die at the end.
However it’s not your fault because you didn’t intend on killing them, right?
On the second case you were trying to kill the plants.
That's great.
Maybe we should try that.
Thank you.
Maybe we both should increase our flexibility in different perspectives.
Thank you, too.
:)
Well, if you really wish to go that far we can do a philosophy doctorate. Find me on Libera.chat, nick qa6.
All these large American companies are extremely anticompetitive. That’s been the case since the US stopped seriously enforcing its own laws on competition and will remain so until a regulator seriously slaps them. Europe is trying on the most egregious things but they are still not hitting hard enough.
Now if that takes away a bit of freedom and privacy, well, you can still opt out on any device that could run Windows 11, and use another OS instead.
I'm wondering whether this won't be possible later down the line, though, given the trend.
Furthermore, since Windows is so prevalent, you're gonna have an hard time using something else. Given you're neither tech savvy, or rich, which most people aren't.
So no, there are no excuses for a company this large to have such malpractices, we're talking about a private company with more power than many small nations.
The issue would be to discern between honourable and dishonourable (or shameless) entities, but there starts the domain of concessions to convenience, and PR.