Don't forget the metric saying "99.97% of user have installed this" even though less than 1% of users know it exists, much less use it

Or "25% of users have used this in the last month" when it's made so easy to accidentally trigger it that the real usage is a few % at most.

it could easily be "after we replaced an existing UI element with a button to launch this instead, adoption increased 9001% month over month"

at this point you're barely the product either. You're more a passive platform for them to execute their strategy on.

Totally agreed. I was thinking about how to word it but I was giving up.

But I would consider us users to be more like an asset on their balance sheet. Not something they would care about the opinion of.

More like livestock tbh. Only instead of wool or meat or eggs being harvested, it’s mindshare and attention that they depend on

Makes me think of that scene of Neo waking up from the Matrix the first time and seeing the "battery pods"... yeah...

That's a good comparison to how I feel these days.

> Then they can't brag to the shareholders about Chrome being "AI Powered"

Or at least justify the hundreds of billions they are burning

I was not happy when they added Gemini to the top bar, in its own place that nothing else gets to use.