Seriously, enshitification is the only thing US companies do well these days. They just dig deeper moats around their walled gardens because they’re too greedy to make decent products that people actually want.
mikenurre@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back. And then the rest of us get better alternatives to this enshitification model.
Pechente@feddit.org 11 hours ago
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Enshittification, AI slop and fascism are America’s greatest exports. And that’s not even a joke.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
We grow pretty good weed too, that isn’t nothing.
Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf 2 hours ago
Not exported overseas though.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 9 hours ago
I think enshitification is a product of public traded companies promising infinite growth, not necessarily a problem of US only companies.
Serinus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s also a consequence of low taxes on capital gains and corporate profits.
When those taxes were higher it made more sense to reinvest the profits back into your own company. You’d build a reputation and a structure that would pay out you and your family for a hundred years.
Now the dream is to build up a company just enough to sell it to some megacorp and cash out asap, with you and your family living off of investment money that only increases over time.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back.
Look up LiMux and the massive Microsoft deal that followed.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
No, please stop with this garbage misinformation. Microsoft made a (suspected) under the table deal with the Munich government at the time to setup a Microsoft office in Munich if they switched back to Windows.
That’s what the news reported on endlessly. That’s the narrative that keeps getting falsely repeated over and over, and no one ever checks the BS stories they spread.
The rest of the story didn’t make headlines, where the new incoming Munich government said “hell no!” (prob in German) and continued the Linux rollout.
Today the environment is a mix of Linux and Windows, but they already have a large focus on FOSS software.
Despite the astonishingly stupid decision to roll their own in-house distro (LiMux), the program was massively successful, with Linux users filling only 40% the number of tickets the Windows users did.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
Citation Needed
Bababasti@feddit.org 10 hours ago
That deal that totally had nothing to do with Microsoft relocating their headquarters closer to Munich
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 hours ago
The Bavarian state government is still entirely in Microslop’s pocket
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours ago
Not surprised. From what I’ve heard from pretty much every German person I’ve talked to, Bavaria is basically their Texas.
fizzle@quokk.au 4 hours ago
Im not an expert on this, but it seems like Ms was worried that success of Limux would be the drip that starts the trickle so to speak. It made sense for them to do whatever it took to patch that leak.
Things have really changed since then though. Valve has been very successful in a Linux end user environment, and Eu is becoming disenfranchised from the US rather than Microsoft specifically.
I think Munich’s motivations were financial, but Frances will be ideological.
With these things in mind, the calculus has changed. That doesn’t necessarily mean France won’t fail, but id be surprised if Microsoft pursues them in the same way.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Don’t listen to that other commenter. They’re wrong about the Munich LiMux story. It keeps getting repeated but it’s not correct.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
While I would love to see them never going back, here in Germany, all it takes is some corrupt politician taking a huge bribe from a lobbyist and swoosh, they are back to Microslop.