It's based on Chromium, not Chrome.

Not my experience with Vivaldi even remotely.

This effort by Microsoft is so limp. I don't think at this point they'll ever be able to create a desktop experience for users over their own needs.

There are plenty of opinions on X. Are you just upset that there are diverse political opinions on there now?

Killing the Kamala endorsement wasn't a difficult call to be fair. Bezos just didn't want to endorse anyone. Easy to understand.

which is what you would say if you accept the narrative and ignore the history

What's to solve? Here's the way the gap is supposed to work and often does: People work for love or money on a product. Other people love the product and are happy to purchase it. This creates income for the original producer and a beneficial product for the consumer. If a product is successful and popular enough, the capitalist cycle gains momentum for both parties to continue the relationship.

Yet we have seen, time and time again, that those who do things for the love of money will cash out. Heck, even those who do so for the love of creating will cash out when they want to move on. While open source doesn't eliminate this possibility, at least it disincentivises it.

While I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions, exceptions that we rarely hear about because they are smaller companies that don't monopolise our attention, it is important to realize that capitalism is just a high level theory. It says things that sound good. over a long enough time period and a large enough samples it may be roughly correct. Yet it has no value over short time periods, small samples, or when it's underlying assumptions are violated.

That last bit is particularly important, even though it probably isn't applicable to Nova Launcher. Everything from the asymmetry of information, to anti-competitive actions of the business itself, to regulation will disrupt those assumptions.

Main reason I use it too.

This topic is red meat in a shark tank for online tech forums. Second only to "What's the best browser?".

Microsoft will fund OpenAI for as long as it's needed. What is their alternative?

You are right:

How long will they do it? Id expect investors to roar up some day? Will MS fund them infinitely just for sake of "staying in the game"? According to the public numbers of users, investments, scale etc., OpenAI will need huge amounts of money in the next years, not just "another 10 billion", thats my understanding?

As someone married to another who has toiled her life away creating I totally agree.