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lostmypasswordanew@feddit.de 10 months agoThis is typical enshittification. Make animpossibly good service to gain marketshare. Then, make it worse once you’ve eliminated all competition and dominate the market.
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You make it sound like the initial investments were sustainable
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
If their plan was to intentionally make unsustainable investments and then gut features later on, they should be shuttered now before they waste any more users time and money
lostmypasswordanew@feddit.de 10 months ago
Wdym?
Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Initial investments are usually excessively big to secure your position. The main focus isn’t to balance the budget, but to have as many earnings and growth as possible to then get rid of the defficit
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You are describing enshitification. You’re missing the point.
Company enters market, disrupts it with money from investors, with featuresets that aren’t profitable just to drive out the competition, kills the competition who have to pay for their features and pricings with an actual business, then raise prices and reduce features now you’re the only one left.
See music streaming, food delivery, taxies, TV and movie streaming, now game subscriptions are gonna do the same thing. Discord is another example .