Thats what consumers call a heatpump here. It has enough capacity to fully replace gas heating. A normal gas furnace does around 28 kW so you can imagine the heatpump to be quite beefy. It has several times the price as a simple air conditioner (I know that is technically also a heatpump) you use to cool down or heat up a room and also does hot water.

Absolutely. My point is not that nothing is going to happen. It’s that many will choose the more common and flexible air conditioners over heat pumps sold to fully replace conventional heating as well.

Fair enough. I’m thinking about radiators in central apartment block heating systems which are common in Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Luxembourg.

A heat pump capable of replacing conventional heating is possible in an full apartment block, not in a single apartment. If you rent an apartment, you aren’t going to dismantle steel radiators attached to the central heating system of the building. Many people just have to deal with what the apartment block owner provides. Installing an air conditioner just for cooling is an easier alternative.

I agree, and when split units are not possible people will still buy the technically inferior single unit systems. My post was related to OP who mentioned people will choose heat pumps (replacing conventional heating) over air conditioners.

That’s only an option if you live in a house. About 50% of all Europeans live in an apartment.
Even if you live in a house, it’s still quite a costly investment to do right, the building needs to be properly insulated and heat pumps are preferably used with underfloor heating. The cheaper heat pumps make quite some noise, which often exceeds the noise limits when living in terraced houses.

I know it’s worth it in the end, but I can totally imagine many people chosing an air conditioner as they are prevalent, low cost and mature, even if the solution is not perfect.

Not really, it was actually Apple that introduced an emoji picker in 2013. The Windows one works since 2017 and KDE has it since 2020.

Not entirely true. The EU mandates a “driver drowsiness and attention warning”. It doesn’t mandate the use of cameras. The word “camera” is not mentioned.

This one I use more than Mistral. There aren’t many related services that focus on privacy.

Not everything is a competition. If people want to support WinRAR after the developer maintained it for more than 30 years and helped out millions of people, that’s just fine.