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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like Cory Doctorow. I think his theory of enshittification is useful, but I find his definition flawed.

Why is it limited to platforms? Can't enshittification apply to other things like applications?
Are business customers really required or can that step be skipped?
The platforms dying thing isn't what we are seeing. For example, Amazon is absolutely enshittified. They're not dead. More like undead, continuing to shamble on consuming everything.

I still give credit to Cory for being an acute observer and coming up with a useful theory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is no need to coin a new term, when "rent seeking" has done just fine for hundreds of years now.

This is not a new concept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I completely forgot about that term. That may be more accurate. In fact, it describes what has Windows has become.