Windows Central’s own Editor-in-Chief Daniel Rubino recently proposed that data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/heading-into-2026-microsoft-is-losing-the-fans-who-once-championed-them” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/heading-into-2026-microsoft-is-losing-the-fans-who-once-championed-them”>people were far more enthusiastic about Big Tech companies a decade ago, with fans championing specific products (think iPhone vs data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/phones/windows-phone” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/phones/windows-phone”>Windows Phone, iPad vs data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/microsoft-surface” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/microsoft-surface”>Microsoft Surface), but now those days are gone, and those sentiments are seriously subdued.
He posited that the reason for this is that people are experiencing innovation fatigue and are tired of feeling taken advantage of, perfectly encapsulated in this sentence: “We’re no…

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