What’s the product? What does it do? How is it used? What features does it have?

ITUNES + IPOD

How does the software work? Where do my files go? Do I get to choose anything? What are the specifications of the device?

BUY THE FASHION STATEMENT.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      2 days ago

      Is it losing control of what your technology does? Because that’s where it starts, you get a blind buy of technology as a fashion statement, and that technology says “forget all the details, that’s beyond you”.

      • Iunnrais@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        No. Enshittification has a very specific definition. It’s a business model that follows exactly these steps:

        Step 1: make a product or service of high quality to users, offered for free, to gather a large user base.

        Step 2: slowly optimize the platform for “business users”, aka advertisers. The service now starts to become worse for the original user base.

        Step 3: make the product worse for both end users and businesses in order to squeeze more short-term profits.

        It’s not a general term for “things getting worse”, it describes exactly these three steps, in this order, exactly as stated. Any variation would need a new term… except we have enough examples of this playbook that no such variations have been spotted.

            • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
              11·
              1 day ago

              ok, do you want to lord my ignorance and your supreme knowledge over me, or do you want to enlighten me?

                • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
                  11·
                  1 day ago

                  So what’s the word for everything is made for consumers instead of users?

                  if it’s not enshittification, what is it? What is the word that I need to communicate? Can you help, or do you just enjoy calling people stupid?