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minus-squaremormund@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·17 hours agoCan 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.
minus-squarelol_idk@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·16 hours agoSplice, 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
minus-squaremormund@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·13 hours agoThanks. Yeah, increasing revenue generation by increasing monetization is definitely part of their MO.
minus-squaredublet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoThe other criticism I’ve seen levelled against them is that they fire almost everyone who works at a company they acquire to run it bare bones.
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.
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
Thanks. Yeah, increasing revenue generation by increasing monetization is definitely part of their MO.
The other criticism I’ve seen levelled against them is that they fire almost everyone who works at a company they acquire to run it bare bones.