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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 10 months agoI like Cory Doctorow. I think his theory of enshittification is useful, but I find his definition flawed.
- Why is it limited to platforms? Can’t enshittification apply to other things like applications?
- Are business customers really required or can that step be skipped?
- The platforms dying thing isn’t what we are seeing. For example, Amazon is absolutely enshittified. They’re not dead. More like undead, continuing to shamble on consuming everything.
I still give credit to Cory for being an acute observer and coming up with a useful theory.
prole@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There is no need to coin a new term, when “rent seeking” has done just fine for hundreds of years now.
This is not a new concept.
DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I completely forgot about that term. That may be more accurate. In fact, it describes what has Windows has become.