Absolutely. I think phone apps as generic things about absolutely part of the entire "enshitification" of the Internet/tech/products/etc. The wikipedia descript

Absolutely. I think phone apps as generic things about absolutely part of the entire "enshitification" of the Internet/tech/products/etc. The wikipedia description is actually pretty good: "Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers (such as advertisers), and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders."[1] The prevalence of enshitification is very much a product of a broad historical arc that began with the deregulation of various US regulated monopolies (phone, airlines, health care) and which ended with the rise of even more powerful unregulated monopolies (Google, Amazon, etc). Not sure what the solution is here, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification