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Or maybe they understand from experience that physical buttons are better? When you can't take your eyes off the road, buttons you can feel with your fingers are better. That's easy to understand, is it not?
> They saw less buttons on Tesla and tried to adopt it as a cost cutting measure
Tesla is doing it as a cost cutting measure too. Elon Musk's philosophy is "the best part is no part".
Did you read the article about how Mercedes-Benz is bringing back physical controls? So in your opinion are they dragging their customers back to the past? Or are they correcting a mistake?
I think it is because allowing the key to be disabled will make Microsoft look dumb for adding the key in the first place!
With AI features, the most annoying thing has to be the Copilot key on my laptop keyboard. If you accidentally hit it it opens a Copilot window, interrupting your typing. The Settings app for this key only allow you to specify whether it activates search or copilot, it doesn't let you turn it off. There are other workarounds like installing an app from the Store, but all those workarounds come with unwanted excess baggage.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/openai-accuses-deepseek-...
What problem is this solving? Isn't it easy enough to just click in the correct box and type the values?
How does this compare to Claude Cowork?
Excerpt:
Savitt jasked Musk if his artificial intelligence company, xAI, had ever “distilled” technology from OpenAI.
“Generally A.I. companies distill other A.I. companies,” Musk answered.
“Is that a ‘yes’?” Savitt asked. Musk answered, “Partly.”
Distillation has become an increasingly important issue as companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have complained that Chinese companies are distilling their systems.