Yes. They tone down the humor over time

That assumes Phil Spencer’s daddy wants to spend more cloud-earned cash on toys that nobody will use. While Microsoft is undoubtedly the bigger company, Sony’s revenue is much more dependant on Playstation.

This world is already here, and it’s not even limited to creative industries. Deutsche Bahn AG, the German railway corporation, has already implemented this for the announcements in their stations.

Nah, they’re not. I’m getting ads in my native language when listening to podcasts in English.

Which will be ignored by search engines, as is tradition?

I think the more probable reason is that EU regulators were unhappy with this for a long time and have now put 3 years of OS updates and 5 years of security updates into law. Low cost Android manufacturers don’t care what Apple does.

On the other hand, a lot of cognitive functions in the human brain are pretty “bolted on”, so this might not be too terrible if you consider that a benchmark…