[Swizec]

> My computer in 2010 was achieving basically the same tasks it achieves now - I can browser the web, buy goods online, watch videos, chat with people, play video games, and so on. My computer today is 10-20x more powerful than the 2010 one, yet somehow everything is slower, uglier, and less reliable.

The problem is that everything after `-` is a service. Someone needs to keep those running.

By way of analogy: You don’t pay Walmart a one-time $30 fee and expect fully stocked shelves forever. You pay a small portion of every purchase to keep the supermarket service running.

[Nextgrid]

> Someone needs to keep those running.

Those services are either paid or havd (much less obnoxious) ads - that didn't change. OSes themselves were paid, typically baked into the purchase price of the computer.

> You don’t pay Walmart a one-time $30 fee and expect fully stocked shelves forever

But I don't expect Walmart to get worse at its primary purpose of taking my money. Imagine if Walmart replaced its perfectly-working checkout lanes with a new version where the PoS had a random ~10s delay in between scanning items, would have a 10% chance of reloading the page and force the cashier to rescan everything, would sometimes register the wrong items, and would distract the cashier with bullshit "suggestions" while he was trying to scan items. That would be crazy right?

[franga2000]

I don't know about Walmart, but most stores around me did replace perfectly working and very speedy checkout lanes with slow, glitchy, not fully feature-complete self checkout. Enshittification may have been invented in SaaS, but it's everywhere now.