No! I purchased it flat out! It has done nothing for years except allow me to write and all of a sudden it has changed its icon (hideously) and has a floating blind spot of AI. It does not have a controllable option for updates, either, or I would have turned that off at the same time as the connected experiences: I can check for updates, but not tell it not to download them. It's weird and disgusting and I don't see how I can write around it when it is constantly moving and rolls through text in the process of composition. It's not even like a cursor. It can block out entire short words. And there's no clear option for removing it and possibly no option at all.
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No! I purchased it flat out! It has done nothing for years except allow me to write and all of a sudden it has changed its icon (hideously) and has a floating blind spot of AI. It does not have a controllable option for updates, either, or I would have turned that off at the same time as the connected experiences: I can check for updates, but not tell it not to download them. It's weird and disgusting and I don't see how I can write around it when it is constantly moving and rolls through text in the process of composition. It's not even like a cursor. It can block out entire short words. And there's no clear option for removing it and possibly no option at all.