Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions
What's interesting to me is that the discussion so far has emphasized: security and freedom. It's clear that consumers care very little about these two ideas in the ways that the technological elite (i.e. HN) do. If I don't understand a technology and don't have an interest in doing so, I certainly don't want to manage it. So the values that these "uncomfortable questions" raise are irrelevant.<p>The way the average consumer views "security" is: "Is this a trusted brand?". As of today Microsoft and Amazon are trusted brands. Western Digital not so much. So instead of trying to understand how Windows 11 running wrapped Amazon Store Android executables might be insecure, users see the words "Microsoft" and "Amazon" and feel secure. (as a side note, security is really just a feeling anyways...)<p>With regard to freedom, what's freeing to the common consumer is the freedom to have access to functionality they care about. They don't care that someone else is tracking them or that they are limited to apps on these stores.<p>So, really, these uncomfortable questions are only uncomfortable for people who aren't the target audience of this feature.