Heresy_generator@kbin.social 11 months ago
This is every fucking business story right now:
- Company offers good product or service at price that competition can't compete with
- Competition fails because they can't compete
- Now that the old competition is gone and the company's product or service has a market dominant position new competition faces massive barriers to entry
- It turns out the company's product or service was never profitable or sustainable with the features that were offered and they lied about having a path to profitability
- With no competition, the company either starts raising the price of the product or service, removing previous features, paywalling previously free features, or all of them at the same time
- People rush to defend the company that has engaged in shitty, bad-faith business practices from the start and blame their customers instead
It's the last part that's most depressing.