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It's just enshittification. Going to continue to get worse as time goes on. Even the hardware will go at some point I'm betting.

Maxion 9mo ago
It's just entropy. It takes a special kind of person to be able to fight it in a big org. Jobs, Musk et. al. are assholes but they do manage to push their vision through. Probably because they are assholes.
- esafak 9mo ago
  Jobs and Musk are CEOs; of course they can push their visions!
- ex-aws-dude 9mo ago
  It seems like apple is missing a design dictator
einsteinx2 9mo ago
> It's just enshittification. That’s not what enshittification means. Somehow its usage has quickly devolved from a very specific pattern companies used to squeeze “value” out of their customers over time into just “something getting worse in any way” or even just “something I don’t like now but I did before” which is not at all the point.
- fragmede 9mo ago
  Last time pointed that out here, Cory Doctorow himself popped up to tell me it's okay, we don't need to word police other people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776712
  - einsteinx2 9mo ago
    Man I really disliked him for creating that word that got so overused that I saw it in practically every single comment thread this past year. Now I dislike him even more for actively promoting its overuse. Ugh.
  - AlexandrB 9mo ago
    So let's run this shit into the ground then until it's meaningless. Got it.
    - einsteinx2 9mo ago
      It’s the enshittification of the word, to use the new definition
- lynndotpy 9mo ago
  Liquid Glass has worse performance implications, which is bad for older devices with slow processors, and older devices with older batteries. It's also very difficult to use on older devices with smaller screens, like the 2022 iPhone SE. Further, Apple stopped making it possible to upgrade to minor releases for security patches. All these give someone a reason to replace their otherwise perfectly-working iPhone sooner.

Maxion 9mo ago

It's just entropy. It takes a special kind of person to be able to fight it in a big org. Jobs, Musk et. al. are assholes but they do manage to push their vision through. Probably because they are assholes.

esafak 9mo ago
Jobs and Musk are CEOs; of course they can push their visions!
ex-aws-dude 9mo ago
It seems like apple is missing a design dictator

einsteinx2 9mo ago

> It's just enshittification. That’s not what enshittification means. Somehow its usage has quickly devolved from a very specific pattern companies used to squeeze “value” out of their customers over time into just “something getting worse in any way” or even just “something I don’t like now but I did before” which is not at all the point.

fragmede 9mo ago
Last time pointed that out here, Cory Doctorow himself popped up to tell me it's okay, we don't need to word police other people. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776712
- einsteinx2 9mo ago
  Man I really disliked him for creating that word that got so overused that I saw it in practically every single comment thread this past year. Now I dislike him even more for actively promoting its overuse. Ugh.
- AlexandrB 9mo ago
  So let's run this shit into the ground then until it's meaningless. Got it.
  - einsteinx2 9mo ago
    It’s the enshittification of the word, to use the new definition
lynndotpy 9mo ago
Liquid Glass has worse performance implications, which is bad for older devices with slow processors, and older devices with older batteries. It's also very difficult to use on older devices with smaller screens, like the 2022 iPhone SE. Further, Apple stopped making it possible to upgrade to minor releases for security patches. All these give someone a reason to replace their otherwise perfectly-working iPhone sooner.