Apple constantly spams you with popup ads for their cloud services, far worse IMHO than any start menu nonsense. To each their own.
- Ads to try Apple Music free for a month.
- Ads to try News+
- Ads to try Fitness+
- Try Safari (if it’s not your default browser)
- Try/log into iCloud if you’re not logged into iCloud.
- Try the latest macOS release if you aren’t on it.
As an aside, you do not want to even log into the Mac App Store with a personal account on a work computer.
Logging into just the Mac App Store effectively logs you into your iCloud on that machine and sensitive personal data is then strewn across various files under ~/Library. The iCloud sysprefs will claim you are not logged into iCloud but ~/Library will show you the truth.
In addition to that, what personal data are you talking about in your last paragraph?
Not sure if OSX is like that, though, as I haven’t used it much in the last few years.
Is there an option like that on Windows?
The old macOS provided that the new Mac, not so much.
Likewise, if I just want to play music, and I decline the free introductory offer of an Apple Music subscription, why does it keep offering?
Like newsletter popups, having something get between me and what I want to do is annoying.
It’s the creeping “Not right now”, “Maybe later”, “We’ll in your face again after a random timer” bullshit I hate.
Frankly, I am rather pessimistic with the industry as a whole. Problems never seem to stay solved. There is constant churn, constant disruption of workflow and UI patterns. Constant change for its own sake and no reflection on what is really important.
Windows is… not for me either.
It seems like after a certain level of complexity product design is a very difficult thing to do.
My guess is that few people have the skill to really get product refinement just right over the long term. So you end up with either stagnation, where people are afraid to improve things or random unnecessary changes that make stuff worse.