What’s the product? What does it do? How is it used? What features does it have?
ITUNES + IPOD
How does the software work? Where do my files go? Do I get to choose anything? What are the specifications of the device?
BUY THE FASHION STATEMENT.
The dawn of enshittification
Submitted 3 days ago by Skullgrid@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJTpLtw7vn0
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
i don’t think you know what enshittification is.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is it losing control of what your technology does? Because that’s where it starts, you get a blind buy of technology as a fashion statement, and that technology says “forget all the details, that’s beyond you”.
Iunnrais@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No. Enshittification has a very specific definition. It’s a business model the follows exactly these steps:
Step 1: make a product or service of high quality to users, offered for free, to gather a large user base.
Step 2: slowly optimize the platform for “business users”, aka advertisers. The service now starts to become worse for the original user base.
Step 3: make the product worse for both end users and businesses in order to squeeze more short-term profits.
It’s not a general term for “things getting worse”, it describes exactly these three steps, in this order, exactly as stated. Any variation would need a new term… except we have enough examples of this playbook that no such variations have been spotted.