Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    17 hours ago

    It’s capitalism… When every CEO, Board Member, and shareholder wants a yacht, it’s literally never enough. They even created a term to describe this inevitable deterioration of every company’s product: enshittification.

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      12 hours ago

      It’s not that they all want yachts, they make enough to each buy multiple yachts. It’s just that nothing is ever enough. They don’t know what success is, so they chase the undefined feeling until they die unfulfilled. Fucking living dead and a cancer on collective humanity

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        3 hours ago

        They want nesting yachts.

        And once they have a nesting yacht, they want an even bigger yacht to nest that one in.

        It’s yachts all the way up.

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      15 hours ago

      Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.

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        2 hours ago

        Oh course it does, what are you talking about? It applies to any product or service that can have its quality gradually and intentionally reduced in service of having its profit margin increase.

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          Originally coined it was meant to describe online software that started out useful and frequently free, then run into the ground when it came time to monetize it.

          Go fucking read about it.

          Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

          Just because people atarted using it to mean ‘stuff gets shitty’ doesn’t change the original meaning.

      • 4am@lemm.ee
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        14 hours ago

        Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.

        American businessmen: “Hold my beer and watch this”