Every single time I open Teams it pops up a dialogue asking if I want to try Copilot. There’s no “No” option, just “Yes” and “Maybe later”. If you click “Maybe later”, it asks again the next day. One day they’ll just assume “Yes” and not ask.
And this is at work for a company that has demanded we jam needless AI into all our applications.
For now, Android is the best compromise between functionality and openness that’s suitable for daily use, especially GrapheneOS. Hopefully some of the Linux alternatives will develop to that point soon, but by all accounts they’re not there yet. So it’s worth fighting to keep what we have until we can use something more open.
Heliboard seems decent, though I don’t know anything about the developers.
Will they be able to circumvent Google’s restriction?
I suspect “yes” comes with strings attached, which is why I’m sticking to the other option. But it’s likely I already agreed to the strings when I agreed to my company’s demand that we use Teams.
Also I don’t want to give some manager at Microsoft the satisfaction of adding my click on “Yes” to their stats.