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Evernote: chuckles I'm in danger Is there any big corporation that doesn't fuck over their acquires?

• Laaas 3y ago
  GitHub by Microsoft went OK.
  • bugglebeetle 3y ago
    The constant outages suggest otherwise.
    • Mavvie 3y ago
      GitHub outages have always been fairly common, I don't think that changed since being acquired.
• woleium 3y ago
  redhat was okay for a bit, but now its being enshittened
  • steve1977 3y ago
    It’s being IBMed. That was to be expected.
• gumby 3y ago
  Microsoft bought DOS, Excel, Powerpoint, and, effectively Word (via Xerox Alto's Bravo editor) among many others. Adobe is a good example; their model is to fuck their customers, not the acquired companies.
  • christophilus 3y ago
    GitHub, Minecraft... I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but they do seem like a decent place to go if you're acquired.
    • _a_a_a_ 3y ago
      Perhaps you've forgotten what they did at github
      • tommek4077 3y ago
        Yes, totally dead that site. No one is using GitHub anymore ...
        • justinclift 3y ago
          They kept pretty hands off for a few years, but the last 2 or so have been getting pretty bad. Their product designers don't even understand some of the key parts of the platform (watching vs starring a repo), which has led to all kinds of bizarre problems. The worst part is they completely ignore user feedback: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65343 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65343
  • steve1977 3y ago
    But to be fair, MS didn’t let those products die but developed them further. They only became really successful after Microsoft acquired them. Not comparable to the situation with Filmic IMHO.
• yareally 3y ago
  Waze still works pretty well despite being acquired by Google years ago
  • eptcyka 3y ago
    It literally hasn’t been updated
    • gruez 3y ago
      https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze >Updated on Nov 15, 2023 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waze-navigation-live-traffic/id323229106 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waze-navigation-live-traffic/i... >Version History >4.99.1 Nov 12, 2023
      • serf 3y ago
        any waze user will tell you that real development stopped at the acquisition with features being slowly migrated to Maps.
        • Scoundreller 3y ago
          What's the biggest missing Waze feature in your opinion?
          • karlshea 3y ago
            Stability?
            • szszrk 3y ago
              [Sygic chuckles]
      • eptcyka 3y ago
        Have you uses the app? It hasn't changed since I started driving. It feels like its being left in maintenance mode. I am very happy it hasn't been killed off yet.
• baz00 3y ago
  Working for a company that got acquired. We're fucking ourselves over more than the acquirers are.
• jefftk 3y ago
  YouTube, Android, and DoubleClick seem to have done pretty well.