Just cancelled my Adobe sub. Even if I was comfortable with how they use my data (and I am most assuredly fucking not) I'm also uncomfortable with them helping themselves to the NDA'd projects I do for clients. I trialed Affinity Photo and it meets 98% of my needs and is on sale 50% off right now. Bite my ass, Adobe.
I'll be watching this curiously from a safe distance for now. I am interested in a new platform without AI, but this stinks of early-stage enshitification.
MacOS is a highly mature, stable, and user-friendly OS that, at least for now, Apple does not meddle with in the same ways that MS has been doing with Windows. It has its problems, yes, but to say "any circumstance" is extreme. I don't like or agree with everything that Apple has done to MacOS but at least Apple isn't actively trashing it into the ground with forced bloat, ads, malware, etc like MS is doing.
I use an iPhone and speak from experience. It's a large, thin, glass-backed slab of... well, glass. It's already so cumbersome and slippery to hold that I had to put it in a grippy case just so I felt like I had some security when holding the damn thing. Thinner bezels just means even further reduced finger-hold locations.
On the plus side, the industry is rapidly moving towards locally-run AI models specifically because they don't want to purchase and run fleets of these absurd things or any other expensive hardware.
With all the studio buyouts, closures, layoffs, etc to pile on top of all the usual greedy macrotransaction crap - it's really hard to give a shit about games right now. Seriously, the only upcoming game I'm even remotely interested in is Tiny Glade.
Used to a lot, but use dropped off a lot as I started to work more. I do use it often when I travel... but I don't actually travel much at all. It was free (game awards) so I'm not too upset over that. Maybe I'll look into getting some of my old childhood favourites running on it as a challenge project.
It's amazing that these companies spend ultraquadrillions on advertisement platforms and algorithms and all they ever seem to do is just spam products at you that you have already purchased. Where is all this money going?
Doubt it. Call their bluff. They'd lose so much more to legal/court fees than they'd ever get back. X is just looking for a quick cash injection.