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by throwaway2037 1047 days ago
"Enshittification": God, I love this term. It so perfectly captures what happens to a product when revenues stall and product managers think of anything to drive new revs. See: Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office.

I was just about to finish this post and ask if anyone knows the history. I Googled that and was surprised by the answer from Wikionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification

    ...[C]oined by Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2022.
God damn, "Dr." Doctorow again!