Bending Spoons to acquire AOL

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• minamoog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i thought they used money to do that

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Late 90s movie reference buys early 90s rotting corpse.

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This headline reads like a very surreal self help book title.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is no spoon.

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• _edge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enshittification company buys the O.G. enshittification

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• lol_idk@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This fucking company keeps buying things I use and ruining them. I can’t believe I know their name

  At least I don’t use AOL

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  • mormund@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you explain more what and how they ruined something for you? So far I haven’t heard of any real negative change to the applications themselves.

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    • lol_idk@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Splice, impossibly expensive subscription even though I paid for a lifetime license (theft)

      Focos, maybe they sold it, but they crippled the one thing I used and changed it to a subscription

      Evernote, so long ago, I don’t remember, but expensive

      Komoot, soon to be too expensive and enshittified

      It’s just really weird I keep running into them with random apps I have used

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought this was going to be a weird as figure of speech.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is no spoon.

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can someone plausibly explain the Bending Spoons business model?

  Big chunk of debt financing for decrepit brands with old tech. Other than strip-mining user data, I can’t figure it out.

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Buy a company which already has a vast historical user base and a well known brand for fuckall because it’s dieing, then make it good again and sell it off for more than fuckall.

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    • mormund@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They, as far as I’m aware, are not reselling like private equity would. They actually take over operations and get ROI through profits.

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  • comador@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The idea here is to rebrand and modernize AOL as a gmail and cyber security alternative with decoupled infrastructure from US dependencies: A highly political topic in the EU currently.

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What should we call our service so people are clear it’s free of American influence… Hmmm ‘America On Line’

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