Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]
SGG@lemmy.world 21 hours agoEnshittification, just like with online services.
Enshittification means something more specific than just making a thing worse. It means making it worse in a way designed to exploit or take advantage of the the user by stealing their personal information or something like that.
This is more like “value engineering” and “planned obsolescence.”
Interestingly, Cory Doctrow just said in a verge podcast episode that he loves to see enshittification applied as broadly as possible because it raises awareness and gets people talking
From Wikipedia, here is the article snippet that originated the term.
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 11 hours ago
More than that, it is the need to continually sell appliances. If you care to build to last (and we still know how to do it) then in the next quarter you sells will go down, the profit will go down and the board will go down.