| He applies the word to more than just that kind of 2 sided market. https://doctorow.medium.com/googles-enshittification-memos-2... In his own words the enshitificstion of Google is: “curse of bigness.” > With no growth from new customers, and no growth from new businesses, “growth” has to come from squeezing workers (say, laying off 12,000 engineers after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years), or business customers (say, by colluding with Facebook to rig the ad market with the Jedi Blue conspiracy), or end-users. Amazon documenting the fact that users were unknowingly signing up for Prime and getting pissed; then figuring out how to reduce accidental signups, then deciding not to do it because it liked the money too much. How did a company like Unity — … — turn into a protection racket? So, while he may describe Enshittification as platform decay he’s not limiting its use to such. |
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