The Power of Defaults Has Failed Us (Premium)

We've all heard about the so-called power of defaults, where making one option the default will increase the likelihood that people will use it. And we likewise know how this maxim is applied in personal technology, the most obvious example being platform makers like Apple, Google, and Microsoft using their own web browsers as the default.

But what Apple, Google, and Microsoft also under...

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