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Wow, folks almost had me convinced MS turned a new leaf 5 years ago.

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme: embrace, extend, extinguish.

>>marric+(OP)
Nah, folks keep giving human behaviours to big corporations instead of understanding everyone is in the game for the shareholders.

>>pjmlp+w6
If a company can align it's business model with user goals, then it can work in the long run. Apple has somewhat aligned it's integrated hardware sales business model with user privacy. Google and Meta are advertising companies and capturing user data and attention will always drive the business.

>>aero14+qP
Apple does ads as well, it just keeps all metadata to themselves.

>>marric+(OP)
Do you consider the Microsoft-managed plug-in marketplace and infrastructure to be a private or public resource? From my understanding Microsoft has never been vague on the position that the plugin marketplace is exclusive to the official VS Code distribution, and the TOS specifically forbids forks from doing so.

Cursor and other forks have decided to circumvent this, some even going so far as to use proxies to bypass restrictions.

I'm not convinced Microsoft owes other billion dollar companies free access to a product they've built, curated, and supported for over a decade. Plug-in authors are not restricted from publishing their products on competing marketplaces.

>>pjmlp+v71
Yes, but it's not a meaningful part of their revenue unlike Google where it's' their entire revenue.

They are very different companies in structure and it certainly is a "pick your poison" but it's completely stupid to act like they're the same on this front. Apple is better on user privacy

...unless you care about state actors, which you should, in which case your data is the US government's either way.

>>marric+(OP)
Satya's talked about how some acquired companies such as LinkedIn and Github are allowed to operate independently for the most part and keep their culture. Or else we'd all be using Teams instead of the LinkedIn messaging feature!