Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL

lol_idk@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mormund@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can you explain more what and how they ruined something for you? So far I haven’t heard of any real negative change to the applications themselves.

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  • lol_idk@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Splice, impossibly expensive subscription even though I paid for a lifetime license (theft)

    Focos, maybe they sold it, but they crippled the one thing I used and changed it to a subscription

    Evernote, so long ago, I don’t remember, but expensive

    Komoot, soon to be too expensive and enshittified

    It’s just really weird I keep running into them with random apps I have used

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    • mormund@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks. Yeah, increasing revenue generation by increasing monetization is definitely part of their MO.

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      • dublet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The other criticism I’ve seen levelled against them is that they fire almost everyone who works at a company they acquire to run it bare bones.

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