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I think we need to decide on its meaning first. Most people these days use it as a death mark. Except the original op-ed often quoted used Meta, Uber, TikTok an
by shmatt 3y ago
I think we need to decide on its meaning first. Most people these days use it as a death mark. Except the original op-ed often quoted used Meta, Uber, TikTok and Google - companies who make billions of clean profit per quarter, and more profits than they ever have, as examples
Enshitification = more profits is unfortunately correct in my mind, but most people use it with a much different meaning. I don't think Unity is going to break all profit records soon
- dgunay 3y agoIt's not the actual profitability of the move that's important, it's the motive. Enshittification comes from the ever-expanding _desire_ for profit. At some point the golden goose is killed to make next quarter's goals. Just so happens it was killed immediately in this case.
- ncallaway 3y agoEnshitification is when you make a product worse for the users with the goal of increasing profit. It may work. It may work in the short term, but cause collapse in the long term. It may fail in the short term. All are enshitification. There are two keys elements in my mind: - the product gets worse - in an attempt to increase profit
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